I’m starting to really crank on content for VMworld (man – lots of work to do)…
The Schedule Builder is online here: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/schedule-builder
Quick notes
- I think the session Vaughn and I are doing (vSphere Storage Best Practices: Next-Gen Storage Technologies – STO2496) is pretty full.
- There’s still some spots for the always popular “ask the _____” (Ask the Expert vBloggers – SDDC1176)
- The one that will have everything but the kitchen sink (Software Defined Storage - What’s Next? - INF1864-SPO) has some spots open. BTW – it sounds a little “marketing”, I promise to make it technical, fun, and cool (and filled with demos) – SIGN UP
Follow past the link for other sessions to consider!
| Session Number | Session Title | Why I think it will be cool |
| INF3014-SPO | Scripting and Programming Cloud Automation – How To Power Hour | Magnus, Clint and Matt Cowger are rock stars. They have experience at hyper-scale automation. They are trying something really cool – an “un-conference format” and driven by audience entries on a whiteboard and live via Twitter! Be prepared to take notes and pictures as we whiteboard and discuss live. |
| INF1736 | Designing Next Generation Software-Defined Data Centers: A Panel with VMware Certified Design Experts | A bunch of VCDXes on an open panel. ‘nuff said. |
| INF1864-SPO | Software Defined Storage - What’s Next? | I promise, this will be cool :-) |
| STO3161 | What Can Virtual Volumes Do For You? | Co-presented by EMC (Matt Cowger) and and VMware (Suzy Visvanathan, Product Manager on VVOL) – this |
| TEX1985 | Lessons Learnt from a Real Life VSAN POC at Trend Micro | It’s still early days on VSAN, but real-life experiences exist, and this will be cool to hear from a customer. |
| EUC2712-SPO | The Impact of Flash on virtual servers, databases and virtual desktops workloads | Itzik is always a well-rated presenter, and the All-Flash Array space is HOT HOT HOT! |
| SDDC1176 | Ask the Expert vBloggers | I’m on this panel, but that’s not why I’m recommending it. These panels are always a fun thing – the questions are all over the map, and unpredictable is fun :-) |
| INF3037-SPO | How to Build and Deploy a Well Run Hybrid Cloud | Tyler Britten and Rick Scherer are incredible, but so is this example. At EMC World, we stood up the full IaaS stack (Vblock, vCloud Suite) and Cloud Foundry for PaaS, and connected it to vCHS… in 5 hours. Find out how we did it. |
| STO2496 | vSphere Storage Best Practices: Next-Gen Storage Technologies | Vaughn and I are trying to do this together, and the multi-vendor sessions are always popular (and seeing competitors on stage can be entertaining :-) |
| NET1861 | Automating Networking and Security Services with NSX for vSphere and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) | Automation and SDN are key for the next wave of cloud use cases – I think this will be a really cool session. |
| VAPP2309 | Virtualizing SAP: Design Guidelines and How They Are Used in EMC IT’s Successful SAP Implementation | I dig that this is co-presented by EMC IT and the VMware team that have helped us virtualize a LARGE scale SAP deployment that is in full production. |
| VAPP2272 | Oracle 12c Multitenancy vs. OS-Level Virtualization (ala VMware vSphere): A Balanced Comparison | Jeff Browning’s Oracle/VMware sessions have ALWAYS rated highly – and are always hotly debated by Oracle (which make me think he’s on to something :-) |
| BCO2649 | CareSystems Automation: Storage and Service Tiering in Enterprise Healthcare | A great customer example of how they’re doing some really, really great things. |
| VAPP1314 | Scaling Your Storage Architecture for Big Data – How the Isilon Server Fits Well with Virtual Hadoop Workloads | Trust me. Hadoop is cool. This is a really neat topic. |
| VAPP1340 | Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way! | AD is at the heart of a lot in an IT shop, and doing this right is key. If you do it wrong, you can really, really hurt yourself! |
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