VMworld Session Voting…

Ok – it’s VMworld season starting :-)   Seems like just yesterday I was in Cannes :-) 

We’ve got a series of session proposals that have made it to the voting round – I’ve nominated my “Top 10”, but please peruse and if you are interested, please vote!

Public voting will close on May 26th.

For each track there is a direct link.  You need to have a VMworld login, but that’s cake (just register)

• Hybrid and Public Cloud: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/hapcloud
• Private Cloud-Management: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcmanagment
• Private Cloud-Business Continuity: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcbusiness
• Private Cloud-Security: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcsecurity
• Enterprise Applications: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/eapplications
• Desktop Virtualization: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/dvirtualization
• Technology and Architecture: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/tarchitecture
• Virtualization 101: http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/v101

Read on for my “Top 30”, and an complete listing of submissions we’ve made.  Customers, EMCers, EMC partners – heck anyone interested – please check them out, people are working very hard behind the scenes to make it useful to all…  I’m enforcing a “no commericals” rule for the EMC sessions (worked to ensure that none of the ones that sound like commericals made it into my Top 30 – and that I know that the presenters will keep it real).

 

So, without further ado, here are my “EMC/EMC Customer/EMC Partner” top 30 submissions.

UPDATE: 5/26/2010 – another other really good one:

Title: Building a Successful vSphere Lab, Session Id: TA7886 – Simon Seagrave (homebrew vSphere is always a fun topic)

(Duncan – looked for yours and couldn’t find it….)

 

Rank	Session Title & Number	Description	Presenter	Personal Comments
1	Migrating off the Mainframe and building the fully virtualized Internal Cloud Datacenter   MA7973	This session covers the steps TTX Company took to move to a 98% virtualized Datacenter including migrating off of an IBM mainframe platform and building an Internal Cloud. TTX will share their story on how virtualization helped their IT Department, facing rigid budgets and limited headcount....	Rob Zelinka, Justin Lauer	Mainframe bad, VMware good.  Customer session - ‘nuff said :-)
2	The Effects of Solid State Disks and Automated Storage Tiering with vSphere4.1 Storage I/O Control   MA7956	VMware vSphere 4’s Storage I/O Control provides the ability to set and enforce disk shares across an entire cluster of ESX/ESXi hosts and acts analogously to Dynamic Resource Scheduling, but for vmkernel I/O admittance. Where prior to vSphere 4.1, disk shares only applied to a single host without the ability to set shares or enforce them on a cluster-wide basis...	Andy Banta (VMware), Chad Sakac (EMC)	SIOC is going to be hot, and loads of questions about how it works with auto-tiering.   Storage is one of the main sources of VMware perf issues - SIOC+FAST is an important step forward.
3	Building Blocks for a 100% Virtualized (And Protected) Data Center   BC6700	With a very aggressive timeframe, CLAL Insurance have decided to fully virtualize their Data Center, they wanted to use the virtualization project to make sure that every (technical) stone wasn't left untouched, after careful evaluation of the available options, CLAL Insurance turned to EMC and VMware to provide an enterprise and a proven solution to virtualize their Data Center…	Itzik Reich, Haim Inger	This customer has a great story (good/bad/ugly) on their experience.   Customers sharing is always top-notch.
4	VDI and the Flash Effect DV8145	This session will discuss how to most effectively implement VMware View using Enterprise Flash Drive technology on EMC storage platforms. We’ll show how to use EFD to drive extreme storage density with View 4.5 and vSphere 4.1, utilizing EFD Flash Cache....	Aaron Patten, Brian Whitman	These folks have boatloads of data to share on View 4.5 and View 4 on solid-state (both as target and as a cache).  IO density is one of the main View+Storage challenges.   Presenters are solid nerds like me :-)
5	Enabling scalable virtual datacenters with vStorage API   TA8106	With vSphere 4.1, VMware has enabled new vStorage API's that permit customers to take advantage of the capabilities of their SAN infrastructure. These API’s thus optimize the infrastructure to provide scalable virtualized datacenters. The vStorage APIs, in conjunction with the SAN technology, significantly reduce the time taken …	Satyam Vaghani, Drew Tonnesen, Radha Manga, Bala Ganeshan	Will be a killer session.  VAAI will be hot, Hot, HOT!.   Satyam owns that part of the VMware stack.   Get him drunk the night before, and you might get some tidbits on vSphere.next in 2011 :-)
6	Virtual Storage and VMware vSphere: Best Practices and Design Considerations  TA8101	" Virtual Storage offers a number of features and functions that directly impact the design of a VMware vSphere infrastructure and enable the private cloud. The ability to have active/active storage in two locations, in particular, has significant ramifications for how virtualization architects...	Scott Lowe	Scott Lowe.  Killer topic. ‘nuff said.
7	EMC IT’s Journey to the Private Cloud EA8256	Interested in discovering how EMC IT is saving millions of dollars with virtualization? Join us for this exclusive behind the scenes look at what EMC IT is doing on its journey to the private cloud – from challenges faced, lessons learned and best practices developed...	Paul DiVittorio	Sounds like a vendor session – it aint.  Paul is part of our IT org.  View this as a 40K employee customer sharing (good/bad/ugly) what they are doing re: virtualization.
8	Disaster Recovery Best Practices Based on Real World vSphere Experiences BC8187	This breakout session will give the audience a customer’s perspective on the best practices and considerations encountered while using vSphere4 and EMC RecoverPoint for business continuance and disaster recovery of their virtual application environments....	Eric Hanchar, Perella Weinberg Partners	After vSphere ESX/vCenter, SRM is the largest contributor to VMware revenue.   A customer-led session on what they are doing.  ‘nuff said.
9	Network Segmentation in a Virtualized Environment – Best Practices and Approaches TA7962	This session will cover network segmentation approaches in a virtualized data center. Learn about available options for segmenting and controlling network design. Hear industry best practices including information on how Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000v/2000/5000/7000, FCoE, and Data Center Bridging come into play....	Nicholas Weaver	A complex topic, and a great session from a super-nerd.
10	An ISV’s Journey to Creating a VM Appliance, Lab Manager 4: Lessons Learned EA8138	The EMC development team embarked upon the path of virtualizing their flagship email archiving application – SourceOne. The goal was to certify the application on vSphere and develop a set of best practices for deployment. During their test and regression process, for which they leverage Lab Manager 4, they had discovered...	Stephen Spellicy, Ed Saipetch, Ben Dunning	A fascinating story – experience from the ISV point of view – with an app that is not friendly to virtualization.  If you’re an ISV, will be an eye-opener.
11	PowerCLI is for administrators ! Session Id: TA6944 And/or Using PowerShell to Automate Your Virtual Storage Management and Provisioning Tasks with vSphere TA8170	In larger organisations administrating a vSphere environment can cause headaches. Some of the burning questions you surely recognize: Who gave that VM 4 CPU's ? Who connected the NIC to the DMZ PortGroup and when ? In this session, Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf will show you how to automate the answers to these questions with the help of PowerCLI.The solutions presented will show you how the combined strengths of the rich PowerShell command set and the PowerCLI snapin provide you with powerful tools to make this all happen. Alan and Luc will show you how to take PowerCLI beyond the listing and reporting stage… Or…. This is an advanced technical session aimed to educate and demonstrate to VM administrators how they can extend their automation capabilities though scripting. The focus is on managing all aspects that relate to serving shared storage to VMware vSphere. This is an age which businesses seek to leverage technology to minimize and automate repetitive operational tasks whenever possible. With a script-driven automation approach for VMware....	Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf Jeff Purcell	Powershell = cool.  two sessions.  Two sets of uber experts on the topic.  Pick one, pick the other, or pick ‘em both. ‘nuff said.
12	Virtualize your Data Warehouses and Data Marts  EA7960	The explosive growth of Enterprise Data and ever increasing need to archive and mine that data is forcing people to think about virtualizing their data warehouses and data marts. By using data virtualization to create virtual data marts that eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the need for physical data marts around your data warehouse hubs. This allows you to preserve the quality and controls inherent in the data warehouse implementation	Radhakrishnan Manga, Chethan Kumar	Chethan is ground zero at VMware when it comes to performance testing.   Radha is the man down the street in Santa Clara who works with him.   BI/DW/Data Marts are one of the toughest workloads.  ‘nuff said.
13	Creating an Internal Oracle Database Cloud Using vSphere EA7061	Virtualization of Oracle databases using vSphere is now commonplace and compliant with best practices in many common usages cases. One of the most compelling areas for virtualization of Oracle database servers is the creation of an on-demand Oracle datab...	Jeff Browning	Jeff does a big chunk of the Oracle testing, and his session has been one of the top ones for the last 3 VMworlds.  Occasionally EMC gets asked to fire him (by Oracle) after his sessions, so it’s got to be good :-)
14	Creating a self-provisioning and self-scaling Web Farm using IIS7 shared configuration, vSphere Web SDK, .Net tools, and vSphere DRS MA7961	This session walks you through the steps to build a web farm that will auto-provision and retire web server nodes based on utilization. This creates a stateless machine that, when partnered with vSphere DRS, can automatically responds to load in provisioning, retiring, and balancing of workload...	Nicholas Weaver	Just look at the description.  How cool is that?
15	Thin Provisioning with VMware for Microsoft Exchange 2007 – EA8118	This session will compare and contrast the use of Vmware and storage thin provisioning for Microsoft Exchange deployments. Performance considerations and impact on the use of thin provisioning will be reviewed with documented results and some guidelines for the use of thin provisioning will be provided.	Ken Gould	Ken is part of the EMC/VMware Solutions crew.   Top rated sessions for last 2 years.  Hot topic.
16	SharePoint 2010 - Optimize, scale and protect enterprise-class environments with VMWare - EA8093	Best practices and technical guidance on how to maximize your investment into Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with VMWare ESX 4.x. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 now means even more hosts, more roles through its Service Applications and federated search environments, which has even more demands on infrastructure and storage. From best practices in EMC’s Proven Solution Labs, learn how VMWare helps organize, distribute and significantly streamline SharePoint 2010 deployments and performance. This session will help you understand the demands of SharePoint 2010 on virtual infrastructures, which will help you plan and design your SharePoint 2010 farm.	James Baldwin	James is the other half of the Cork duo (with Ken).   Killer Sharepoint content.  Session was in top 5 in Cannes.   Sharepoint on VMware rocks.
17	Answering your customers security concerns about VMware adoption SE7977	Securing the virtual data center is a critical concern for clients as they take a broader adoption strategy involving VMware technologies, especially as they virtualize critical applications and the underlying infrastructure. Virtualization at enterprise scale causes the organization’s data and intellectual property to move around free of the physical constraints of a traditional data center...	Martin Snellgrove	Like it or not – VMware experts need to become more of a “security expert” to move into later phases.
18	How ThinkCash Financial used 100% virtualization to build a Private Cloud PC8141	Attend this session to learn how ThinkCash Financial used VMware technologies partnered with Cisco, Dell, and EMC to completely virtualize their software lifecycle. Learn about how ThinkCash utilized VMware Lab Manager running on vSphere clusters and EMC storage to manage complex multi-product software development teams...	Nicholas Weaver	A real customer case study of sophisticated automation.  No commericials.
19	EMC Backup & Recovery for VMware - Customers Panel BC8176	Customers of all sizes, from all industries, and from all geographies have been using EMC solutions for the backup and recovery of VMware environments for years. It is one thing to hear from the company supplying the solution, it is another to...	N/A	Customer panels rock.   Sound too much like it could devolve into a commerical?  Show up and ask them what they DON’T like about their solutions….
20	Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications – Oracle 11i and Exchange 2007 EA8244	EMC’s Internal IT department has been developing their private cloud solution for over a year. As part of this effort many Tier 1 applications were identified that were to be placed on VMware. The top two most challenging applications…	Paul Divittorio	Oracle and VMware are always a popular topic.  This is a real-world case study.
21	Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware TA8133	VMware enables infrastructure that is more available than a traditional physical design, but only if best practices are leveraged for critical datacenter infrastructure. In particular the storage network and storage configuration are critical for overall VMware cluster availability. In this session, VMware and EMC will be sharing our experiences and best practices for....	Chad Sakac	feel like a doink for suggesting my own session – but this made it into the top 10 breakouts at VMworld 2009.  Vendor neutral session on storage HA design (block and NAS).  Play “stump the chump” :-)
22	Storage for VMware: Zero to Hero, and Applying What You Learn to vSphere TA8124	Too often, the responsibilities of virtual machine administrators are either stretched to manage the storage infrastructure, or to participate in decisions where an understanding of storage architecture is required. Regardless of whether or not you fit in these two categories, having a basic understanding of what it takes to design a storage infrastructure to support your virtualization deployments…	Travers Nicholas	If you don’t know Travers yet, trust me, you will :-)  A complex topic, but an important one.
23	Transparent Migration of Application Workloads across Datacenters   PC8147	Cloud architecture provides a number of benefits that include ubiquitous network access, rapid elasticity and location-independent resource pooling. In this session we present technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC that enable private clouds pertinent for enterprises...	Bala Ganeshan, Ravindra Neelakant	I had my own session on the same topic, but seeing Ravi’s (VMware) content made me vote this above my own.   Great testing data.
24	How VMware ThinApp can help migrate to Windows 7 in Virtual Desktop deployments   DV7100	"How to leverage the power of ThinApp, where it is applicable to VDI, and how it can get customers upgraded to Windows 7...	Tee Glasgow	Thinapp is not leveraged enough by customers.   It can be a huge cost-saver.
25	Best Practices: How process automation drove VMware adoption at a global firm MA7981	Process automation is critical to driving VMware adoption. The ability to streamline and automate processes such as provisioning will lock in the value generated by a VMware adoption program and increase the agility of the business. Learn how....	Martin Snellgrove	People underestimate the importance of process as they move through the journey.  Case-study focused.
26	Architecting Oracle to Go Virtual – EA8376	Join this session to learn about moving Oracle databases and middleware from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. Key discussion topics include virtualization performance, reduced provisioning time, unified data protection strategies and new features apply to supporting Oracle technology. You will discover some architecture guidelines to assist with your virtualization planning, as well as, going through some Oracle scenarios to show the business benefits virtualization offers to DBAs. Finally, we will cover hot topics like working within Oracle’s Licensing model and support of Oracle technology in moving to a virtual infrastructure. We will answer questions like: “What licensing rules apply to using High Availability clustering?” and “What will Oracle and VMware support and not support?” Answering key questions like these enables your business to start developing a plan to take advantage of the rich features provided by VMware virtualization in supporting your Oracle implementations.	Sam Lucido	Don’t know Sam so a gamble to put in the top 30, but the topics of Oracle licensing is too good to pass up.
27	Design a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Performance and Reliability DV7986	A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) breaks the physical bonds between information and desktop hardware enabling IT staff to change, update, and deploy components independently. Learn the central principles of design and architecture, including...	David Stark	Little known fact – EMC Consulting is Microsoft’s #1 Win 7 deployment partner in the Americas.   The team has collaborated with VMware PSO on View/Win 7 services.  David is in the middle of all that.
28	Ensuring successful data protection in VMware Environments: DR to Bare Metal and Everything in Between BC7954	This session covers the tools, technologies and best practice design/implementation required for VMware Administrators to recover critical application data. Join us as we discuss and demonstrate the replication technologies that let you provide a complete application and operational recovery, based on continuous data protection on a variety of replication technologies purpose-built for ESX Servers and their critical VMs. All too often...	Scott Baker, Stephen Spellicy	Backup/Recovery is always a challenge for VMware shops.  If anyone can do this in a vendor-neutral way, Scott/Stephen can.
29	Be the next IT rock star. Your data can be global as you business becomes global. Solve the geographic dispersal challenges of cloud computing TA8140	Just as virtualization has introduced new options of efficiency, control and choice in the data center, cloud computing expands these options even further to the solve problems faced by a dispersed, web-enabled work force and customer base. Like any new technology in the data center, a rip and replace approach isn’t practical....	Dave Graham, Frank Murphy	Killer title, killer session topic.   Think Springsource is cool?   Think you’ll use the same ol’ infrastructure for that?  NOPE.   Find out what that’s all about.
	Site Recover Manager (SRM) for Oracle- EA8377	Join this session to learn about how your business can easily implement a disaster recovery plan using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for your Oracle databases and middleware. We will review key initiatives in DR planning and show how SRM can be used to recovery tier one databases and applications to a remote site in a consistent and holistic approach. Already using technologies like Oracle Data Guard? Key topics also include synergies between SRM and Oracle work together providing comprehensive coverage for your business. Finally, we will cover a few DR scenarios to show how SRM adds reliability and value when used with Oracle.	Sam Lucido	Again, don’t know Sam, so a bit of a dice roll.  I’m hot to trot on the topic of Oracle, but this is a good topic on it’s own merts.

 

Here are the remaining EMC submissions – many golden ones – reducing it to my Top 25 was tough.

31	Best Practices for Accelerating Remote Site Consolidation and Virtualization TA7968	Join this session and learn about best-practices and infrastructure technologies to accelerate virtualization and consolidation at remote offices. You will discover new techniques and technologies designed to facilitate remote-site consolidation and virtualization...	Chris Birdwell	Low flash, high substance topic.   Remote site consolidation can = big outcomes.
32	Weather VDI Storms with vSphere and Optimized Storage DV8144	" Desktop virtualization seems to be the topic of many data center administrators as of late, and certainly VMware’s View technology has added fuel to the proverbial fire. Whether you are kicking the tires, planning to deploy, or in the middle of a virtual desktop rollout, sizing the server and storage infrastructure is paramount to creating a good user experience...	Radhakrishnan Manga, Pak-Shun Lei	Radha and Pak presenting guarantees that this will be a data-filled session.
33	VMware vStorage API and Change Block Tracking (CBT) Overview TA8109	This session covers an in depth look at each of the VMware vStorage APIs as well as a detailed overview of Change Block Tracking. We will discuss what are of the API subsets are, what they do, and why they are important enablers of the cloud vision. We will also discuss what Change Block Tracking is, how it works and the backup benefits CBT enables...	Justin Lauer	CBT is a relatively unknown API that can be a big deal for many use cases.
34	Enterprise-Level Disaster Restart with Site Recovery Manager- A Customer Experience BC8193	" In this session we will present methodologies to provide enterprise class disaster restart capabilities for business applications that involve heterogeneous operating systems including VMware virtualization platform, storage arrays and replication technologies...	Tom Gregory	DR, customer experience.  Always good.
35	Using VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC RecoverPoint for application BC7163	"Join this session and learn about infrastructure technologies purpose built for the virtual datacenter, and the private cloud.  You will discover new innovations ultra-scalable, and ultra-flexible storage technologies, as well as management and data protection...	Steve Hegarty	Steve will make this real, though his description is bland and commerical-like.
36	VMware's Site Recovery Manager and EMC 's RecoverPoint: Setting the Standard for DR Automation BC8089	"Looking for an easier way to automate your DR solution? This session explores the design aspects around building a true end to end disaster recovery environment supportive of automated failover and failback. EMC's flagship replication product, RecoverPoint...	Joe Kelly (Varrow)	Joe is fantastic.  As a VAR, brings a better perspective than a vendor.
37	Cloud Compliance: Enabling visibility and control in the Cloud PC8334	Today, verifying secure conditions and operating states within the cloud's virtualization and hardware layers is prohibitively difficult. To provide compliance of the security controls of these layers you must pass an audit, which is very labor intensive and time consuming. For Cloud Service Providers...	Denis Guyadeen	This session won an award at EMC World.
38	How do you backup 5000 virtual machines? - Efficiently protecting vBlock architectures BC8178	How do you cost effectively deploy and protect 5000 virtual machines? It begins by having a predictable and manageable platform that delivers consistent and defined performance. More importantly, it is based on a common standard that can both integrate easily into your existing IT infrastructure…	Mike Zolla	One of the top Vblock questions… (how do I backup)… answered.
39	Leveraging iSCSI in a Cloud Computing Environment TA8111	Join this session and learn about how the VMware’s iSCSI implementation (within ESX) has advanced over time. Active discussion about how typical organizations leverage iSCSI to satisfy their needs for storage. Learn other best practices in the use of iSCSI HBA’s and the ability to boot from iSCSI through both hardware and software…	Kevin Zawodzinski	Ah iSCSI how I love thee.   Kevin will also do this topic justice.
40	If You can Virtualize Almost Anything and Users can’t stop Generating, then why not Dedup Everything? BC8131	By 2012, analysts are predicting that the growth of unstructured data will reach in excess of 2400 Exabytes worldwide. Analyzing this assertion further shows that companies are seeing a 50% annual data growth rate year over year – that is an enormous amount of data. But, before contemplating where to store all of this, you should ask yourself how much of it is just duplicated content proliferating throughout your own company...	Scott Baker, Stephen Spellicy	Managing this data growth (which hits the VMware environment hard) is going to be a “macro-level” challenge for all.
41	Deploying virtualized desktop environment with VMware View and EMC technologies DV8161	This session will present infrastructure technologies that accelerate, optimize and improve operational efficiencies of virtualized deployments of desktops using VMware View. The presentation will touch upon various …	Aaron Patten, Bala Ganeshan	Hot topic, killer presenters.  Will be a nerd extravaganza.
42	Answering your customers security concerns about VMware adoption SE7977	Securing the virtual data center is a critical concern for clients as they take a broader adoption strategy involving VMware technologies, especially as they virtualize critical applications and the underlying infrastructure. Virtualization at enterprise scale causes the organization’s data and intellectual property to move around free of the physical constraints of a traditional data center...	Martin Snellgrove	Interesting topic.   Getting past security objections is an important thing to discuss.
43	Design a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Performance and Reliability DV7986	A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) breaks the physical bonds between information and desktop hardware enabling IT staff to change, update, and deploy components independently. Learn the central principles of design and architecture, including...	David Stark	David Stark would know.   Plus, his Iron Man suit is awesome :-)
44	Shrinking RTO/RPO’s of VM Replication using WAN Optimization BC7950	Replication of virtual machines is a disaster recovery solution often used to protect the most vital informational assets within enterprises. In order to maintain the high end-to-end throughput requirements and stringent RPO/RTO targets that are necessary to protect such assets, the WAN infrastructure is a critical element of the solution. Enterprises face enormous data growth driving the need to send more data over the same WAN connections…	Fred Nix	WAN optimization in DR replication scenarios is a hot topic.
45	Expanding VMware View Use Cases: User-Installed Applications and Storage Reduction DV8164	In this session, you’ll learn how to accelerate VMware View pilots into production and expand your existing production deployments to more users by improving the user experience and reducing storage requirements – at the same time. This session will introduce you to a new class of desktop layering and compositing solutions that have recently come to market to complement VMware View. At boot time, these solutions dynamically composite the....	Fred Nix	More Thin App goodness.
46	Protecting VMware View with Optimized Backup for VMware DV8153	VMware View is used by businesses around the world. It allows you to centralize the delivery of corporate desktops and laptops with virtual machines and manage them from the data center, streamlining IT operations and realizing a new level in costs savings. As important as the business benefits of centrally managing desktops and laptops...	Michael Zolla	Think simple backup, end-user self restore at scale.   Important with VDI.
47	Desktop Virtualization: Time to face the music - Build a successful VMware View deployment, by overhauling your world view on how to manage desktops DV8167	Join and learn how to make your VMware View solution deliver on the promise of driving down TCO and making desktop management easier, faster and with fewer help desk calls. Everyone knows that they need to architect the underlying infrastructure housing the three core pillars of the desktop, OS, Persona and Applications, differently...	Aaron Chaisson	Aaron is one of our premiere View experts, and is engaged with customers of every size/shape.
48	How Many Acronyms are in Your DR Strategy BC8628	SRM is a compelling technology, couple that with EMC Replication and it makes for a powerful DR strategy. This session will be a technical deep dive into VMware SRM utilizing EMC Recover Point replication technologies to achieve a true one button DR…	Victor Backman	I just like the title of this one :-)
49	Managing vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Storage Replication Together BC8184	Storage replication that is tightly integrated with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a critical piece of the puzzle in planning for a disaster recovery solution. With the introduction of SRM 4.0, VMware now delivers....	Giri Basava	Giri is the man behind several EMC plugin innovations.
50	Virtual Storage Management Best Practices for VMware MA8151	Join this session and learn how VMware is changing the way IT organizations use and manage storage. In virtual environments, storage teams allocate capacity in large pools called datastores which are assigned to virtual machines and their applications. This process reduces the time to provision capacity to meet new application requirements and demands – cutting the provisioning process down from days down to minutes…	Kevin Gray	Could be solid.
51	Understanding the Benefits of Tight Integration Between vSphere and Enterprise Storage Management MA8120	As the roles and responsibilities of VMware Administrator and Storage Administrator converge, new requirements have risen for an operational model that includes shared access to storage objects. Shared access provides the ability for both controlled, proactive creation and allocation of virtual storage resources at the storage system...	Donald Pichette	vCenter plugins now GA from EMC will go through several updates before VMworld – Don will give an update on the latest.
52	Managing Infrastructure Convergence and Resource Delivery for Cloud MA8150	This session will explore the management challenges presented by next generation platforms designed for cloud architectures that “unify” the delivery of resources such as network, server and storage to cloud-based or hosted applications. This new approach to delivering flexible, dynamic pools of resources allows administrators to....	Philip Burt	Management of this “integrated stack” is important when it comes to cloud orchestration underneath Redwood.
53	Data Protection Best Practices on the Journey to 100% Virtualization BC8169	VMware has had a huge impact in data centers; consolidation, costs & complexity minimization, reduced power and space requirements, and more. Achieving 100% virtualization is more of a journey that involves a series of phases. At each phase, higher tiers of applications and servers, that the organization relies on, are the targets for virtualization...	Thomas Martin, Daniel Budiansky	Good topic.
54	Improve your TCO by Auto-Tiering your Virtualized Applications EA7957	The two main challenges that Enterprise Datacenters face today are: massive growth of Enterprise Data and achieving the best storage TCO while meeting SLAs with high data growth. Server virtualization increases the need for storage consolidation further. Join this session and learn how EMC’s Auto-tiering technologies can be leveraged in....	Radhakrishnan Manga	Radha is the man behind much perf testing – and this is an important topic.
55	Tier One Applications, “What applications should I virtualize next, and why?” EA7974	As a manager of enterprise infrastructure you may be faced with the question, " What applications should I virtualize next, and why?" Learn a proven methodology, along with a best-in-class tools approach, to analyze your current application infrastructure, business requirements, and service levels…	Christopher Hawk	This is a question I hear from customers all the time.  We’ve developed a programatic way to get at the answer.
56	Building a roadmap to Private Cloud using VMware as the foundation SE7978	Many organizations expect IT to be delivered as a service that adds business value: business agility depends on IT agility. Business stakeholders want to cut through the hype of cloud computing and learn how to build a practical, pragmatic roadmap for deploying a private cloud based on VMware. In this session...	Ted Newman	The higher level question is a good one.  As long as Ted doesn’t leave this “in the clouds”, will be good.
57	Desktop as a Cloud Service: Dynamic End User Computing Environments DV7983	This presentation will discuss new solutions to the challenges in today's desktop operational environments and the opportunities for IT to enable the enterprise knowledge worker by reducing time to market and lowering TCO. Areas of focus for this discussion will begin with an outlook on IT's evolving role in today’s …	Scott Burgess
58	VMware Data Replication, Management & Restoration Simplified VM6882	Attend this session to learn how Replication Manager dynamically creates and manages replicas of your data in a virtual environment. Replication Manager automates the management of point-in-time replicas for increased business continuity. Should data corruption occur, you can easily restore production data in your virtual environment with a few mouse clicks....	Neil Salamack
59	How EMC and VizionCore Optimize VMware Backups BC8171	EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems and VizionCore vRanger Pro provide a simple and efficient method for backing up and recovering VMware environments. vRanger Pro provides agent-less VMDK backups directly from an ESX host to NAS targets while reducing required backup times and network traffic…	Daniel Budiansky	Fun to see an EMCer actively promoting a solution that competes with other EMC solutions.  Gets my vote for chutzpah :-)
60	Virtualizing 100% VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE – Large Scale Migrations EA8255	Many ask how we can get 100% virtualized and how quickly we can get there. The simple answer is that you are 50% there if you have a well defined process in place for a server migration....	Paul DiVittorio
61	Infrastructure Technologies to Long Distance VMotion – What is “VM teleportation”? PC8051	Join this session and learn about infrastructure technologies purpose built for long distance VMotion and Cloud federation. Using existing technologies such as vSphere and active-active virtual storage models, you will discover...	Chad Sakac	I put this way down as I think people will do it better than me.
62	Building the 100% Virtualized Datacenter and Completing the Could Vision MA8142	This session covers the steps organizations need to take when architecting today’s datacenters to achieve 100% virtualization and align with the vision of cloud computing. The conversation will cover strategies specific to building, managing, securing and protecting the private cloud....	Justin Lauer	A bit too mushy in the description.
63	Deploying VDI solutions today – lessons learned and best practices DV8149	"Join this session and learn about the experiences EMC and its partners have had deploying VDI solutions in customers today. This session aims to provide both a realistic and measured view of the state of VDI technology as well as providing the audience with an appreciation of the necessary steps an organization should undertake when...	Alex Tanner	Alex rocks, but loads of View session proposals.

Please vote – and I’m looking forward to seeing YOU at VMworld!