The benefits vary depending on the membership level, and they include access to rebate programs, online sales tools and the Partner Central. Read more As VMware continues to make progress through advanced technologies, Flinders aims to ensure the vendor can build deeper capabilities across its partner ecosystem. The company plans to launch Dell Technologies Advantage, a framework that will enable cross-selling opportunities for partners by making it easier to do business across Dell's portfolio of businesses, including Dell EMC, VMware, Virtustream, Pivotal, Secureworks and RSA. The VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Competency provides partners with the sales and technical training required to be successful selling hybrid cloud solutions based on VMware Cloud on AWS.
We are excited to share today that VMware is announcing VMware vSphere Platinum — a new edition of , as well as vSphere 6. Note: If you missed the breakout session at VMworld, it is now available. With the adoption of digital transformation, individuals and corporations are all leaning more on digital assets, digital identities, and digital channels to drive revenues and differentiate themselves in the market, which makes comprehensive security across infrastructure and applications of paramount importance. As data security threats increase and regulatory pressure to control such risks grow, organizations are shifting from point security tools to embedded infrastructure solutions. IT needs to comprehensively secure — applications, data, infrastructure, and access. By the time an attack is detected, it is usually too late. Introducing vSphere Platinum VMware vSphere Platinum is a new edition of vSphere that delivers advanced security capabilities fully integrated into the hypervisor. This new release combines the industry leading capabilities of vSphere with VMware AppDefense, delivering purpose-built VMs to secure applications. With these new capabilities, vSphere Platinum secures infrastructure and applications by leveraging the hypervisor and the power of machine learning in a way that is built-in, operationally simple, and with minimal overhead or impact on performance. New threat vectors appear every day, and vSphere Platinum delivers new capabilities to address these in-guest threats. Included with vSphere Platinum, delivers key capabilities to protect applications running on vSphere. It enables a simple and powerful way to maintain existing workflows, while supporting collaboration amongst vSphere Admins, and Security, Compliance and Application teams; making for less disruptive response and remediation in a security incident. Key Features and Capabilities vSphere Platinum delivers comprehensive built-in security and is the heart of a secure SDDC, delivering secure applications, data, infrastructure, and access. AppDefense locks down the guest operating system for all applications, the VMware application stack and third-party applications. To accomplish this, AppDefense gathers inventory data on virtual machines and applications from vCenter Server, development tools, and automation frameworks and applies machine learning to discover the intended state and establish the known good behaviors for the application and machine. Any deviations from this state are detected and prevented, securing the integrity of the applications, infrastructure, and guest operating system. AppDefense provides detailed visibility for better change management and compliance reporting, and also provides a rich set of automated or orchestrated incident response mechanisms to address attacks. Moreover, it leverages machine learning for a simple and automated way to conduct audits and reviews for applications. Additionally, vSphere has deep integration and works seamlessly with other VMware products such as vSAN, NSX and vRealize Suite to provide a complete security model for the data center. To learn more about vSphere Platinum, check out this. Details as well as terms and conditions for this promotional offer will be available , once vSphere Platinum reaches general availability. VMware Cloud on AWS turned 1 today! And with its anniversary, we are very pleased to announce service availability in AWS Asia Pacific Sydney Region. We have a number of new capabilities that are being introduced which will help organizations accelerate public cloud adoption and migration. Learn more by reading this. Learn More As the ideal, efficient, secure universal platform for hybrid cloud, supporting new and existing applications, serving the needs of IT and the business, vSphere reinforces your investment in VMware. With vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6. To learn more about vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6. His extensive past experience in the technology industry includes driving cloud management solutions at VMware, growing the Azure public cloud business at Microsoft, as well as delivering and managing private clouds for large enterprise customers at IBM. Himanshu has been a frequent speaker at VMworld, Dell Technologies World, vForum, VMUG, Microsoft TechEd, and other industry conferences. He holds a B. Follow him on twitter as himanshuks.
