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VMware previews VMware AppCatalyst & Project Bonnevil at DockerCon 2015

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VMware unveiled today at DockerCon 2015,  VMware AppCatalyst   is an API and Command Line Interface (CLI)-driven hypervisor that is purpose-built for developers. A technology preview, VMware AppCatalyst offers developers a fast and easy way to replicate a private cloud locally on their desktop for building and testing containerized and microservices-based applications. The tool features   Project Photon , an open source minimal Linux container host, Docker Machine and integration with Vagrant. VMware AppCatalyst is ready to be downloaded today for Mac OS X at no cost from the AppCatalyst technology preview community site   here   (registration required). The community site enables participants to provide detailed technology feedback and seek assistance. &  Project Bonneville, a technology preview, will enable the seamless integration of Docker containers into the   VMware vSphere® platform   and allow virtual administrators to use ...

Introduction To Network Virtualization Using VMware NSX

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VMware NSX provides a complete reproduction of Networking and Security services in software. This session gives the attendees a technical understanding of the components of NSX. Understand how switching, routing, firewalling, load-balancing and other services work within NSX. This session also discusses what are overlay networks, what are logical networks and how it all comes together on a physical infrastructure. Attendees learn about how security rules can be applies to logical networks with NSX. A demonstrations will highlight the key workflows. Get more from EMC World 2015 session :  Presentation   Video

Stay Safe from malware attack on Facebook

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Few days back, Facebook users were red-faced over a malware attack that spammed Facebook timelines and news feeds with pornographic images and videos,  forcing them to clarify to friends and relatives that they had nothing to do with it. How does this work ? It generally starts with a message on social media, which entices you to click on it.... like ' watch urgent, because it is your video '  & e very time someone clicks on the link, their entire timeline and inbox was spammed with pornographic material. How can you protect yourself ? Let's understand, modern day attacks cannot be stopped but small steps can help you prevent the damage.  Here are some small steps to help you stay safe.   Remove apps that have access to posting on your timeline. Generally, without realizing we authenticate an account using our FB profile and that ends up giving the app control to posting and your data.   Secondly...

Introducing vVNX Community Edition

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  At EMC World, EMC announced the general availability of a Virtual VNX storage environment that deploys on VMware vSphere -  vVNX Community Edition. The vVNX Community Edition (also referred to as vVNX) provides a flexible storage alternative for test and development environments. Users are able to quickly provision a vVNX on general purpose server hardware, which can result in reduced infrastructure costs and a quicker rate of deployment. Both existing and new VNX users can benefit from the vVNX. Existing VNX users are able to utilize existing third-party server hardware in their test/dev environments, while new and curious users can use vVNX to try out newer functionality as well as APIs before purchasing a VNXe or VNX. You can obtain the vVNX on EMC Product Download page, available on emc.com     

RSA Research Finds Size Doesn’t Matter In Cybersecurity

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Today, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), released its inaugural  Cybersecurity Poverty Index that compiled survey results from more than 400 security professionals across 61 countries. The survey allowed participants to self-assess the maturity of their cybersecurity programs leveraging the  NIST Cybersecurity Framework  (CSF) as the measuring stick. The research provides valuable global insight into how organizations rate their overall  Cybersecurity Maturity and practices across a variety of organizational sizes, industries and geographies.  Catch the highlights via the info-graphics below :

Full Coverage : 2015 Cloud Foundry Summit

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The Cloud Foundry Sum­mit is a two day event for de­vel­op­ers, op­er­a­tors and man­agers lever­ag­ing the in­dus­try’s lead­ing open source plat­form-as-a-ser­vice. Cloud Foundry Sum­mit 2015 ​gath­ered 1500+ Ap­pli­ca­tion De­vel­op­ers, IT Op­er­a­tions Ex­perts, Tech­ni­cal Man­agers, Line-of-Busi­ness Lead­ers, Ser­vice Providers and Cloud Foundry Con­trib­u­tors.  Follow the full coverage :  Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 Intro Video   Keynote: Welcome to the Cloud Native Enterprise Keynote: Certifiably Cloud ISVs and the Future of Cloud Foundry Keynote: Apps and Platforms Enablers for Today’s Cloud-Native Enterprises Keynote: Developing the Freedom to Disrupt Keynote: How I Accidentally Used Open Source Ideology to Make a Bestselling Novel Keynote: Enabling the Developer to be a First-Class User of the Datacenter Keynote: Communication as a Service with Cloud Foundry Keynote: Consumerizing Healthcare through Lean + ...

FREE Storage related courses from EMC Information Infrastructure

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AppSync Fundamentals Provides an overview of EMC AppSync 1.5 architecture, features, supported applications, service plans, installation, reporting, and administration. Intended for administrators, architects, support engineers, and end users. Atmos Fundamentals Provides insight to Atmos features, functions, and capabilities and how Atmos can be used as a cloud storage solution. Intended for anyone responsible for selling, installing, supporting, or managing EMC Atmos. Connectrix Fundamentals Provides an introduction to the EMC Connectrix family of products and includes details on how Connectrix products are used to build Storage Area Networks. Intended for those positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using Connectrix products. Elastic Cloud Storage Fundamentals This course provides a high level overview of the EMC Elastic Cloud Storage solution covering basic features and functions, use cases, and deployment configurations including a ...