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VMware Database Resource List

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I’ve said it before that the Universe speaks to you in three’s.  I got asked for info about VMware and Databases twice today, so I’m posting the list of resources I collected expecting the third request in the next few days…

VMware Resources Portals for Virtualizing Databases

Virtualizing Databases Specific Info

vFabric Database Solutions

There are other areas where VMware is working on database related solutions which most people still don’t realize:

  • vFabric in-memory data solutions: GemFire is a in-memory massively scalable object based data fabric and SQLFire is an in-memory distributed SQL database.
  • vFabric Data Directory is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) deployment and management solution.

My Cloud Newsletter for March

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So actually this is the Your Cloud Newsletter that I create for my private clients, but my english minor half had to play with the wording in the title.  So much good stuff in this month’s edition that I decided to redact the private stuff and share the rest with you!

VMworld 2012

Have you budgeted for VMworld 2012 yet? Seems like no matter how early we tell everyone about VMworld, people tend to get the green light and register just weeks before the event…and then can’t get into the sessions they want.  So make sure you start your planning now!

  • VMworld San Francisco: August 27-30, 2012
  • VMworld Barcelona: October 9-11, 2012

And here’s a ROI message incase your need to convince your boss.

vExpert Nominations Open

Is one of your co-workers a VMware Guru? Are they so dedicated to their Guru status that they blog about it after work? Then help make their Guru status official by nominating them to be a 2012 vExpert.

Latest Happenings from VMware

vSphere 5.0 Update 1 (ESXi and vCenter) Now Available!

Other Recent Releases (with links to Release Notes)

vCOPS has been getting lots of attention lately for the vSphere specfic dashboards available in 5.0. Here are some interesting tid-bits related to this dashboard:

Microsoft Licensing is an ongoing discussion within the VMware Community.  Emma (aka LadyLicensing) has a great blog where she posts on this topic for the wider IT community.  There have also been some great discussions recently regarding MS Licensing for Desktop as a Service (DaaS).

New Flings available from the VMware Labs…

  • Cloud Cleaner Cleans up your vCloud Environment
  • Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plugin for the Auto Deploy component
  • InventorySnapshot allows you to “snapshot” a given vCenter inventory configuration and reproduce it
  • Onyx serves as a proxy between vSphere Client and vCenter Server to translate communication into PowerShell
  • vBenchmark allows you to measure key datacenter operational and efficiency metrics

VMware Forum 2012 is a free full day event where you will hear VMware, Industry Experts, and IT Professionals discuss virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions as well as get a chance to network with your peers.  Below are some of the sessions:

  • Online Forum on April 12
  • Dallas, TX on May 2
  • Boston, MA on May 15
  • Washington, DC on June 19
  • Raleigh, NC on July 19

Check the VMware Forum 2012 website for full schedule and to register for one of these events.

VMware Customer Support Days

Have you attended a Customer Support Day yet?  If not, you’re missing a golden opportunity to learn from our Global Support Services (GSS) experts!

Upcoming Support Days:

  • April 4, 2012: New York, Manhattan
  • May 22 – May 23, 2012: Palo Alto (Customer and joint Support Day with Cisco, NetApp and VMware)
  • May 31, 2012 (Tentative): Virtual Support Day
  • July 29, 2012: Dallas
  • October 3, 2012: Boston

More dates, both in US and Internationally, are being planned. Please check the website regularly for updates and to register for an event.

Other Reality of the Apple Dividend & Buy Back Announcement

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So the big Apple divident announcement hit this morning. And all the news media (including a few financial sites I’ve looked at) seem to be focusing on the wrong numbers.

As the first sentence in their announcement states: spending $45 Billion (of domestic cash…2 key words there) over 3 Years; averaging out to $3.75B per quarter. $10B of that will be to repurchase shares to negate employee stock grants (aka, dilution of public stock); averaging $.8B ($833M specifically) per quarter. If you take the repurchase program out of the equation (it’s just negating new stocking coming into the open market that’s pay for all the Apple employee’s new cars, home remodels, and kid’s college savings programs) you have just under $3 Billion of Apple’s quarterly cash hoard being returned to investors.

Now the part not being focused on in most media circles: In their 1st Quarter of FY2012 Apple Generated $16B in cash. That number is expected to grow each quarter with a FY2012 total expected to be $75B. So the dividend pay out will only slow the rate of Apple’s cash growth (in FY12Q1 they would have generated $13B instead of $16B; the FY2012 total slips from expected $75B to an estimated $63B).  Most of Apple’s competitors still wish they could generate that much revenue, not just free cash.

The other small caveat being missed. The payouts come from domestic cash. Of Apple’s near $100B cash balance, about $64B of that is overseas. Not taxed by the US Government.

So the Dividend payout is great for investors as our growth stock now is also an income stock as well. It’s great for Apple because it attracts a new class of institutional investment money (income seeking) but it also allows Apple to continue to shift cash into overseas accounts. I’m not a corporate tax expert but it would be nice if a news agency would focus on the impact of this small tid bit.

(Disclaimer: I’m an Apple stockholder)