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While browsing through the Microsoft Virtualization website, I stumbled across this table included in the Cost Saving section that presents cost and feature checklist comparison between Hyper-V/System Center with few vSphere editions. While Microsoft’s spin on the theoretical cost advantage... VMware Partner Team

 

While browsing through the Microsoft Virtualization website, I stumbled across this table included in the Cost Saving section that presents cost and feature checklist comparison between Hyper-V/System Center with few vSphere editions. While Microsoft’s spin on the theoretical cost advantage of Hyper-V/System Center over vSphere isn’t surprising (I am not going to address it here, since we have already shown how it doesn’t hold water), the checklist comparison struck me as having a few factual errors and misrepresentations of actual product capabilities which I think are worth pointing out

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Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) recently released an update to their ongoing performance analysis of Terminal Services on three commercial hypervisors: VMware vSphere 4, Microsoft Hyper-V R2, and Citrix XenServer 5.5. This Competitive Flash is to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand VMware’s positioning in regards to the performance analysis and to respond to customer questions.

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Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) recently released an update to their ongoing performance analysis of Terminal Services on three commercial hypervisors: VMware vSphere 4, Microsoft Hyper-V R2, and Citrix XenServer 5.5. This Competitive Flash is to help VMware Partner Sales... VMware Partner Team

On February 4th, Citrix issued a press release announcing ‘Citrix Dramatically Improves Economics of Desktop Virtualization to Drive Mainstream Adoption’. The focus of the release was to communicate that one physical server had been verified to support 125 VDI based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops, and 5000 local streamed desktops. This Competitive Flash is to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand VMware’s positioning in regards to the announcement and to respond to customer questions.

On February 4th, Citrix issued a press release announcing ‘Citrix Dramatically Improves Economics of Desktop Virtualization to Drive Mainstream Adoption’. The focus of the release was to communicate that one physical server had been verified to support 125 VDI based... VMware Partner Team

Maureen Lonergan: Ahead of the Learning Curve 2010 – Get Ready, Set, Go Whether you are a novice to the topic of virtualization or fast approaching the status of Virtualization Zen Master, my sincere advice for you as you kick-off... VMware Partner Team

Maureen Lonergan: Ahead of the Learning Curve

2010 – Get Ready, Set, Go

Whether you are a novice to the topic of virtualization or fast approaching the status of Virtualization Zen Master, my sincere advice for you as you kick-off the New Year and develop new revenue opportunities, is to make sure you maximize the exploding wealth of learning opportunities around these vital technologies.

The # 1 Opportunity to Maximize your Knowledge, Partner Exchange 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada.

In all earnestness, this VMware partner-dedicated conference is about one thing only --- Helping you Get Ready and Get Going in 2010 to position yourself and your firm for huge success in the virtualization (server/desktop) and cloud computing marketplace. Here are some highlights VMware Partner Exchange 2010 has to offer:

1)  More than 35 Sales and Business Development Sessions, 31 Technical Sessions

a.        Sample of Topics (Beginner & Advanced levels) :

1.    The Customer Journey to the Cloud.

2.    Cloud Computing – Private Clouds, Public Clouds and Cloud Services

3.    Infrastructure Virtualization (vSphere).

4.    Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VMware View (server virtualization is big…this one will be bigger!)

5.    Business Critical Applications in the Cloud.

6.    Building a vPractice – 10 sessions focused on Services.

7.    Channel Sales Best Practices from Sales Leaders in the field.

8.    Vertical Markets – selling to SMB, healthcare, federal, public sector.

9.    SpringSource – Virtualizing  Enterprise Java Applications.

b.       More than 11 hands-on, self-paced and instructor-led labs across the four virtualization solutions (Infrastructure Virtualization, Business Continuity, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization Management).

c.        More than30 Technology Alliance partner sessions and boot camps from the who’s who list in the business.

d.       VMware Boot Camps: Infrastructure Virtualization Boot Camps, VCDX, VSP, VTSP, VCP. No kidding, this is serious stuff!

Finally, all work and no play is clearly not a recipe for success. In addition to many networking opportunities at the conference, we have several fun activities – including a super bowl party and a VMware reception hosted at the House of Blues (I can already see you packing!). We want to meet with you, and sure hope to see you there.

Register At: VMware Partner Exchange

Maureen Lonergan

Maureen Lonergan is the Director of Global Channel Enablement. She has responsibility for building training programs to enable all Channel Partners; Solution Providers, Corporate Resellers, Technology Providers, Alliance Partners, System Integrators and System Outsourcers, and Hosting. She has been leading the Channel Enablement Team since August 2008.

Best Practices for Microsoft App Virtualization Accelerate your business when you virtualize Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Join us for a live Webcast and hear Grant Leathers from Kelley Blue Book discuss how he has cost-effectively grown his infrastructure... VMware Partner Team

Best Practices for Microsoft App Virtualization
Accelerate your business when you virtualize Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint

Join us for a live Webcast and hear Grant Leathers from Kelley Blue Book discuss how he has cost-effectively grown his infrastructure to meet the demands of his business with a scalable Microsoft®-applications mixed-workload solution built on VMware® vSphere™ 4 and NetApp® unified storage.

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Specifically, you'll learn how NetApp and VMware helped Kelley Blue Book to:

Avoid $300,000 in up-front storage purchases with
"just-in-time" scalability. Boost storage utilization for virtual servers by over 200%. Improve storage system performance by up to 400%.

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