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Plans for the second Annual VMware Partner Exchange are underway. Next year's event will be hosted on April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida. VMware is developing this world class partner event to help you accelerate your virtualization business. And with their growing commitment to the partner eco-system, they are now joining all their partners to include the VIP community as well as their Technology Alliance Partner under one roof! You can expect the same outstanding commitment to providing you with the content and training you need to grow your business.

Attend the conference to

• Network with your Peers and Connect with VMware executives and experts
• Gain Insight to VMware roadmap and new sales & marketing tools
• Increase your training to sell more profitably

Information technology (IT) media company TechTarget announced the acquisition of The Brian Madden Company, the leading independent, website and conference to address the needs of IT decision makers on the topics of desktop virtualization, terminal services, and application virtualization.

As an addition to TechTarget’s portfolio of market-specific media, The Brian Madden Company brings the largest community of IT professionals specializing in application delivery and desktop virtualization. This includes hundreds of thousands of visits to BrianMadden.com, and attendees to BriForum, an annual event held in Chicago and the only independent conference covering the desktop virtualization space.

http://www.techtarget.com/html/pr/pr-11192008.htm
http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/11/19/techtarget-acquires-the-brian-madden-company.aspx

VMware launched a new referral program gives you rewards when you recommend VMware products to others.

It's as simple as 123:

1. Write an online recommendation of your VMware product.
2. Share it with their friends (via e-mail, IM, blogs, or social networks).
3. Allow their friends to sign up for a special offer.
4. Earn 10$ rewards when their friends sign up.

John Troyer says:

You get $10 credit (which can go straight to your PayPal account or to a gift card or charity) every time two VMware Store purchases are made from your referrals. (That $10 number tells me that we expect to moving more copies of Fusion and Workstation than VI Enterprise through this referral, but go crazy selling ESX if that's what you're into.) In any case, it's a great way to spread the word about the solutions you use every day that make your life easier and got you your last promotion.

The use of IP Storage for VM swap files is now allowed under VMware Best Practices. At one point there were published recommendations not to place the VM's swap files on NFS.  This recommendation is no longer VMware's best practice. Of course, best practices recommend designs that minimize VM swapping, including proper memory allocations, but VMware has removed the recommendation of not placing VM swap files on IP-based storage, and it is now an acceptable practice to locate VM's swap files of either NFS or iSCSI-based storage, as it would be with Fibre-Channel or Direct-Attached Storage (DAS). Bob Slovick, thanks for the update.

Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will apply that perspective to the new disruptive trend in the market that everyone is calling cloud computing.

In his session, "The Enterprise Cloud: Applications On and Off Premise," Chu will uncover among other things VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service providers worldwide. He will explore cloud pitfalls and uncover new methods for delivering applications on or off premise.

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You can use this link to get access to the VMware Converter 4.0 Beta Program.

Welcome to the VMware Converter 4 beta program. We are excited to announce that VMware Converter 4 beta is now available. Your involvement in beta testing VMware Converter 4 is an important part of the release process, and your timely and thorough feedback is critical to the success of the beta program and to the release.

As part of this beta, we request you to extensively test several areas of feature enhancements including P2V support for Linux and Win 2K8 sources, hot cloning enhancements as well as workflow automation enhancements. Your active participation in this beta program is critical. We appreciate and value your efforts to install upon downloading the software and actively provide us with your valuable product feedback.

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