Sharpen your pencils, it’s time for a quiz.

Think you’re the best at solving problems using vCloud Air? Here’s your chance to prove it. We’ve put together a test that only the smartest would dare attempt, full of questions about things like disaster recovery, high availability and application portability. We invite you to step up to the plate and test your cloud know-how in the latest version of the VMware vCloud Air Challenge.

Now that you have your pencils out, mark your calendars with these dates:

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World Juggling Day is tomorrow, and to celebrate we’re giving a shout out to some of the best jugglers we know – IT leaders like you.

Knives, chainsaws and rings of fire have nothing over scaling workloads, compliance mandates and staffing challenges. One wrong move and….wait, you don’t have to worry about making the wrong move. As a VMware vSphere® user, you’ve got something not every juggler does: VMware vCloud® Air™, the ready-to-run public cloud purpose-built for vSphere data center modernization.

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The average enterprise data center runs more legacy on-premises applications that are virtualized by VMware vSphere® than “born in the cloud” applications. However, these existing applications can benefit from the agility and flexibility of a public cloud platform. Sign up for our VMware vCloud® Air™ webcast on 6/16 and explore key enterprise factors to consider when deciding to move to the public cloud.

Join leading cloud platform experts – including IDC guest speaker Gary Chen, the Research Manager for Cloud and Virtualization System Software and Jenny Fong, VMware’s Director of vCloud Air Technical Marketing –  as they share valuable insight into how vCloud Air can help your enterprise leverage the public cloud. The webcast will cover:

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By Matt Kwok, Business Planning Leader for Cloud Services, VMware

While many customers are familiar with the benefits of VMware’s Subscription Purchasing Program (covered in previous posts), one question I am commonly asked is, “What can I do with vCloud Air if I only have a few SPP credits leftover?”

This question usually comes up when a customer has already used most of their purchased credits to fund their main projects, and now discover that they have a few dozen unused credits that are nearing their 12-month expiration date. Alternatively, they may have purchased some trial SPP credits as part of an Enterprise Agreement and are now looking to burn them down.

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