Hybrid Cloud Assessment Launched!
Hybrid Cloud Assessment (HCA) Hybrid Cloud Assessment answers your cloud cost questions in less than 3 hours. HCA helps to understand existing private cloud costs, compares public and private cloud...
View ArticleAligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes – vROps White Paper
VMware just published my vROps White Paper titled “Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes” on the VMware Tech Papers site. In particular, this white paper explores a common theme among...
View ArticlevROps – A Methodology for Authoring Dashboards
vRealize Operations Manager, as we know it today, comes packed with a vast array of built-in content. We have dashboards, views, reports, alerts, and a myriad of other content to help us paint the...
View ArticleAutomated Workload Balance
Welcome to your lights-out datacenter! With vRealize Operation 6.6 automated workload balance is easier and more controllable than ever. This latest release of vRealize Operation gives you the...
View ArticlevRealize Operations 6.6: “I’m too sexy for my skin!”
vRealize Operations 6.6 gets sleeker and sexier in it’s new skin! On June 13, many of the vRealize Suite components (namely vRealize Operations (vR Ops), vRealize Log Insight (vRLI), and vRealize...
View ArticleJuly 19th: Getting More Out of vRealize to Monitor Multiple Clouds
Be the multiple clouds hero and manage your entire IT infrastructure proactively. We are continuing our “Getting More Out of VMware vRealize” series with this special webinar on July 19th! How often...
View ArticleIntroducing “Operations” Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6
Now that you have a sneak preview of the launch of vRealize Operations 6.6, it is time that we unwrap the goodies and take you through the new features in detail. One of my favorite areas of vRealize...
View ArticleManage Capacity and Utilization with vRealize Operations 6.6 Dashboards
I hope you enjoyed my last post around running production operations with out of the box dashboards with vRealize Operations Manager 6.6. While that post was focused on providing you a visibility into...
View ArticleCome and Participate in VMworld Design Studio!
Dear vRealize Operations Customers, Would you like to help define the next generation of vRealize Operations? We invite you to participate in the VMware Design Studio at VMworld 2017 US. What Kind...
View ArticleIT Teams Need To Finally Implement Self-Service Automation
Seven things, including Self-Service Automation, that IT teams must do to retain relevance with end users. I was talking with an industry analyst (think Gartner, Forrester, IDC) the other day around a...
View ArticleMarketing Internal IT to Line-of-Business
Public Clouds make marketing internal IT to line-of-business a must do item A couple of weeks ago I posted the first in a series of blogs on big things that IT teams need do to ensure that they remain...
View ArticleIT As Developer Of Infrastructure As Code
IT As Developer: One Of The Keys To Relevance This blog is the third installment in a series focused on the question of what IT teams need to do to retain or regain relevance (depending on their...
View ArticleRealizing the Self-Healing Data Center: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in...
There’s an old joke that IT is about keeping the lights on. Have you ventured into The Home Depot lately? Lighting isn’t what it used to be! With a diversity of choices—LED, CFL, Halogen, Fluorescent...
View ArticleIT Must Integrate PaaS and CaaS with IaaS
Go Beyond IaaS: Deliver PaaS and CaaS This blog, is my final installment in my “Seven Things That IT Must Do…” series (see list of prior blogs at the bottom of this blog) and focuses on the idea that...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Wavefront and vRealize Operations Integration Coming Soon!
Wavefront and vRealize Operations: Empowering IT to partner with Application teams through shared visibility Today VMware announced the integration of Wavefront and vRealize Operations, empowering IT...
View ArticleWhat’s new in vRealize Operations 6.7 Capacity and Costing! What! Did you...
There are some great new capabilities and enhancements in vRealize Operations 6.7 (vROps). In this blog we would like to give you an overview of two really big changes to vRealize Operations 6.7....
View ArticleWorkload Optimization – The Key to your Self-Driving Datacenter!
vRealize Operations 6.7 is here and it comes loaded with great new features that will make your life better! Included in these is an improved capacity engine to help you better manage your...
View ArticleAssess Your Upgrade Readiness – vRealize Operations 6.7
We have seen many new capabilities and enhancements introduced in vRealize Operations over the last several releases. vRealize Operations 6.7 is no exception to this trend. Though this is only a dot...
View ArticleUnder the Hood: What’s new in Self-Driving Operations with vRealize...
Today’s the day many of us have been waiting for – the GA release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.7 and it is impressive in both feature and scope. You have probably read some of the blogs about this...
View ArticlevRealize Operations within vCenter Plugin
With the release of the latest version of vCenter 6.7 there is a new capability to help achieve self-driving operations from within your vCenter environment with vRealize Operations being at it’s core....
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