I’m going to keep updating this this post as things get closer and closer – but there’s already a ton our customers and partners can start planning for…
You can get the summary at the video below…
For those of you who can’t make VMworld Americas, but will be at VMworld Copenhagen – no worries – we’ll be mirroring the bulk of this there as well!
You can register using the EMC link and get the EMC discounted rate!
If you want detail on sessions, hands-on-labs, those face-melting demos and more – read on!
First of all – sessions. There are 20+ sessions that are led by EMC, or have EMC participating in a support role. As of 7/29, many of the date/times are not final, will update this post as they are finalized. We’re furiously working on the content, demos and more.
Look we know that people don’t want vendor commercials. They want content that is technical, practical and helps them get it done. This year, end-customers voted for the sessions – except the partner session and the platinum keynote – all the other sessions are things YOU voted for. I’m working to make sure the content are “vendor commercial free zones” (at much as I possibly can). The only ones that weren’t voted on by attendees were the ones we get as a diamond (top tier) sponsor. We submitted almost a hundred, and a lot of good ones got rejected – but I’m very pumped about the ones people picked.
There’s something there for everyone – so start to make sure you put these on your show calendar. You can go to www.vmworld.com to find them and start planning.
The EMC super session has built a bit of a reputation of being a demo extravaganza, and this year will be no different. What WILL be different is that Pat Gelsinger (EMC’s COO) will be doing it with me (more accurately, I’ll be the demo guy, and he’ll be the guy with the juice :-) For those of you who haven’t met Pat, he’s a rock star. Having come up in the engineering ranks of Intel as one of the many key folks in the development of the 486, Pentium, Xeon, Nehalem and Westmere. He was the most senior engineering leader at Intel before joining EMC. I’ve seen him in action, and you wouldn’t believe the positive change he drives.
| Session number | Session title | Presenters | Type | Date/Time |
| TBD | Infrastructure Technologies Purpose Built for the Private Cloud | Pat Gelsinger, Chad Sakac | Super Session | |
| TBD | VCE – What’s the latest, and what’s to come | TBD | Super Session | |
| BC7950 | Shrinking RTO/RPO’s of VM Replication using WAN Optimization | Fred Nix | Breakout Session | |
| BC8089 | Using VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC Replication Technologies for Application Disaster Recovery | Steve Hegarty | Breakout Session | |
| EA7061 | Creating an Internal Oracle Database Cloud Using vSphere | Jeff Browning | Breakout Session | |
| EA7726 | Virtual Machines Outperforming Physical Machines - Crossing the Performance Barrier | Scott Drummonds with David Korsunsky (VMware) | Breakout Session | |
| PC8051 | Infrastructure Technologies to Long Distance VMotion – What Is “VM Teleportation”? | Chad Sakac | Breakout Session | |
| SE8520 | Panel Discussion - Private Cloud - Virtualization Security and Compliance, Meeting PCI Standards | Bret Hartman, moterated by Allwyn Sequeira (VMware) | Panel Session | |
| SP9646 | Application Deployment, Considerations, and Use Cases with Vblocks | Hari Kannan, Brian Ho, Vas Mitra (VMware) | Breakout Session | |
| SP9647 | Enhanced Business Continuity with Application Mobility on Vblocks Across Datacenters | Bala Ganeshan, John Kennedy (Cisco), Ravi Neelakant (VMware) | Breakout Session | |
| SP9820 | Getting the Most Out of Your Storage Infrastructure with Client and Server Virtualization | Chad Sakac | Breakout Session | |
| SP9821 | Backup with Deduplication: Accelerating the Journey to 100% Virtualization | Daniel Budiansky, Mike Zolla | Breakout Session | |
| TA6944 | PowerCLI Is For Administrators! | Alan Renouf, Luc Dekens (Eurocontrol) | Breakout Session | |
| TA7171 | Performance Best Practices for vSphere | Scott Drummonds, Kaushik Banerjee (VMware) | Breakout Session | |
| TA7962 | Modern Networking in a Virtualized Environment | Nicholas Weaver | Breakout Session | |
| TA8101 | Virtual Storage and VMware vSphere: Best Practices and Design Considerations | Scott Lowe | Breakout Session | |
| TA8133 | Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware | Chad Sakac | Breakout Session | |
| TA8623 | Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge | Chad Sakac, Adam Carter (HP), Vaughn Stewart (NetApp) | Panel Session | |
| SE9600 | How to Attest Host Platform Security for Cloud Deployments: A Technology Preview from VMware, Intel, and RSA | Robert Polansky, Richard Brunner (VMware, Steve Orrin (Intel) | Breakout Session | |
| SE8195 | Managing Security Compliance for VMware Virtualization | Nirav Mehta | Breakout Session | |
| TBD | Customers Sound Off! Making Backup & Recovery Better | Tony Asaro (analyst) | Panel Session |
Second – announcements. Do you really think I’m going to give them all away? :-) We have many incredible announcements of new technologies, products and capabilities – I can’t wait!
Third – the booth. This year, we’re trying something a little different. We’ll have sections that don’t focus on products, but rather customer challenges. Also, as a nerd, I know what people want. It will be covered by nerds (vSpecialists) and product experts to help. I also pushed the team to step up the “everything is real”….
While there will be (of course) the always awesome VMware Hands-On-Lab (HOL) powered by the VMware GETO crew that we will be supporting (along with many of VMware’s partners), we wanted to have a Hands-on-Lab specifically for VMware/EMC customers, since the VMware HOL naturally focused on VMware stuff in a vendor-neutral way. While we will be using View 4.x extensively both locally and remotely there will also be a boatload of gear right there. This will give customers a chance to play with the technologies live, and ask any question they would like while they actually drive the technology itself. We are working to have a series of “hands-on challenges” for people to compete against each other.
In addition – we know how important our partners are. Last year, the EMC partner pavillion was a huge hit, so we’ve expanded it this year. You’ll be able to see EMC partners who integrate and extend the solutions – right there.
You can find us right at the entrance to the right, beside the Cisco booth. There will also be a full blown VCE booth.
Third – the swag. This year, the best giveaway of course are iPads. But there’s always not enough prizes – so… we’ve dialed it up to 11 :-) We’ll be giving away an iPad every hour when the exhibit hall is open! In addition there will be other prizes, as always. Come by, and register to win!
Fourth – it’s all about the customer. Customers make the world go around. We have a series of customers who will be sharing their stories about how they have leveraged VMware and EMC together. You can come and share YOUR story! Most of the EMC executive team will be there also talking with customers and analysts.
And of course – I’ve already mentioned it here, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the customer appreciation party. It’s going to rock… Find it at Temple 540 HOWARD ST (2 blocks from Moscone Center), Tuesday August 31, 2010 6:30-10:30pm. It’s invite-only – so reach out to your EMC/EMC partner sales teams – they owe you one :-) Ask them to talk to Britanny Coulson. We’re still finalizing the details on the other party – the vSpecialist+VMware SE/PSO+Cisco Datacenter SE+VCE Solution Architect vGeekfest…
So much to do… so little time…
I… CAN’T… WAIT!!!!
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