
Award Categories | AMER Winner | EMEA Winner | APJ Winner |
Business Continuity Competency Partner of the Year |
Varrow | Computacenter | Veeras Infotek Pvt Limited |
Cloud IaaS Competency Partner of the Year |
Ahead, LLC | Colt Technology Services |
Shanghai Ingeek Information Technology Co., Ltd |
Consulting and Integration Partner of the Year |
Xerox | T-Systems | Accenture |
Desktop Competency Partner of the Year |
Insight | Phoenix Software Ltd. | GoodMorning Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
Distributor of the Year |
Officer Distribuidora | Tech Data GmbH &Co. OHG (AZLAN) | Ingram Micro Australia |
Emerging Market Partner of the Year |
Soluciones Informaticas Integrales | Aptronics | PT Mitra Integrasi Informatika |
Infrastructure Virtualization Competency Partner of the Year |
CDW | Bechtle | FUJITSU FSAS INC. |
Management Competency Partner of the Year |
International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. | Comdivision | CTC/ITOCHU Techno-Solution Corp |
Public Sector Partner of the Year |
ePlus Technology Inc. | Trustmarque | ILGEUN Infra INC. |
Renewals Partner of the Year |
SHI International Corp. | ATEA | Dell |
SMB Partner of the Year |
SHI International Corp. | Assyrus Srl. | Whizz-Work Pte Ltd |
Service Provider of the Year (VSPP) |
Savvis | OVH | Datacom |
Solution Provider of the Year |
Presidio Networked Solutions | Kelway | NetOne Systems |
Technology Innovator Partner of the Year |
– | – | Fujian Centerm Information Co., Ltd |
Training (VATC) Partner of the Year |
Global Knowledge | QA Ltd. | ECS Technology (China) Limited |
vFabric Partner of the Year |
Logicalis, Inc. | Canopy or Atos? | XML Asia Ltd |
Virtualization of Business Critical Applications Competency Partner of the Year |
GreenPages | AddOn Systemhaus GmbH | – |
I travel to Las Vegas to attend at the VMware PEX 2013. This will be the second time that I participate in this kind of event (previously I was in Vegas in 2010, still at Mandalay Bay, but in general I prefer to follow the european VMworld).
In a previous post, I’ve already describe some reasons to attend at this kind of event. Partially it also covers the differences between PEX and VMworld. But after this event I could give a complete comparison between those events (being able to compare in the same period with both editions of VMworld).
Eric Siebert (from Sphere-Land.com) ha open again, like one year ago, a content for voting the ‘Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs’.
As he points out in his post, there are now over 200 blogs dedicated to VMware and Virtualization – this is definitely an impressive number which is a real indication to how passionate people feel towards the VMware range of products and virtualization in general.
The voting runs 1st March with only one round of voting being allowed per IP address – so those of you using a corporate Internet connection, get in early.
You can vote for your top 10 favorite VMware & virtualization blogs: on the first page you will be able to select your 10 favorite blogs and on the following page will be allowed to rank them in your preference order.
VMware has announced the new VMware Horizon Suite: the platform for workforce mobility. Core of the VMware’s End User Computing (EUC) vision it is based on this point:
Finally there are several other aspects to consider: backup software, storage plugins, vSphere client, …
The backup software must be compatible with vSphere 5.1, so check it before the upgrade procedure. Actually most of the backup software vendors have version for vSphere 5.1, but note that old backup software may be not compatible.