It’s time again for VMworld -- catch Dell EMC at both the US and European events!
VMworld 2017 US
VMworld 2017 Europe
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Look for Dell EMC at VMworld in these speaking sessions!
SQL Server Transformation Survey Results: Virtualization and IT Agility (VIRT1822QU)
Date/Time: Sunday, Aug 27 (4:00pm - 4:30pm)
Philip Hummel, Dell EMC
The 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems places Microsoft SQL in the highest position for both completeness of vision and ability to execute among all the rated products, including Oracle, Amazon Web Services, and IBM DB2. In this session, we will explain how businesses operating at any scale can improve SQL Server agility by implementing a strategy to virtualize, standardize, and automate. In the summer of 2016, Dell EMC and VMware surveyed members of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), the leading organization for SQL Server professionals. Over 350 SQL Server users participated from companies of all sizes and industries. We will present findings from the study that highlight the importance of virtualization, standardization, and automation among SQL Server professionals.
Ask the Experts - Titans of Tech (PBO1281PU)
Date/Time: Monday, Aug 28 (2:30pm - 3:30pm)
Rick Scherer, Dell EMC
Celebrating our 10th year we hope to continue the success as one of VMworld's Top 10 Rated Sessions. This is an unscripted session where the audience is in control. Ask your questions to our distinguished panel of technologists who are shaping where the industry is going, learn about what drives their excitement for technology, while having some fun in the process. No powerpoints, No sales pitches, No holds barred.
VxRack SDDC Deep Dive: Inside the VxRack SDDC powered by VMware Cloud Foundation (PBO1064BU)
Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 29 (4:00pm - 5:00pm)
Jason Marques, Dell EMC
Take a look behind the curtain as experts from Dell EMC and VMware dive deep into the latest turnkey solution for a complete software-defined data center (SDDC). See details on how integrated networking, both physical and virtual, along with full lifecycle management of hardware and software are the foundation for a complete SDDC infrastructure. Now, VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX have been combined with the best from Dell EMC into a single agile system.
Modern Data Center Transformation: Dell IT Case Study (PBO1964BU)
Date/Time: Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Paul DiVittorio, Dell EMC
Dell IT’s Modern Data Center Transformation is designed to deliver a more efficient and agile software defined data center as a foundation for delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The modern data center is the future of infrastructure today and requires a fundamental shift from managing components to managing services. In this session, learn how Dell IT modernized its infrastructure with flash storage, converged and hyper-converged systems and software defined infrastructure, where all components are delivered through software.
State of the Union: Everything mulit-cloud, converged, hyper-converged and more! (PBO3334BUS)
Date/Time: Wednesday, Aug 30 (8:30am - 9:30am)
Chad Sakac, Dell EMC
You have questions? Chad Sakac has answers! The technology landscape is continuously evolving, making it a challenge for IT leaders to keep up. Chad will relate Dell Technologies’ perspective on multi-cloud, converged and hyper-converged, data analytics, and more. He will provide a glimpse into the future and reveal insights on how modern workloads are influencing new approaches and solutions.
Deliver Real Business Results Through IT Modernization (STO3333BUS)
Date/Time: Monday, Aug 28 (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Sudhir Srinivasan, Dell EMC
Stephen Manley, Dell EMC
As businesses embark on new digital transformation initiatives, we’re seeing them simultaneously transform their core IT infrastructure. All this reinvention requires some new thinking and different approaches. This session will provide insight into the broad spectrum of considerations when modernizing your infrastructure to support next generation applications. You will learn how Dell EMC and VMware together are driving advancements in converged systems, servers, storage, networking and data protection to help you realize greater operational efficiencies, accelerate innovation and deliver better business results.
Workforce Transformation: Balancing Tomorrow’s Trends With Today’s Needs (UEM3332PUS)
Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 29 (2:00pm - 3:00pm)
Andrew McDaniel, Dell EMC
The way we work today is changing dramatically, and organizations that empower their employees with the latest technologies gain a strategic advantage. In this session, you will learn how to modernize your workforce with innovative new devices and disruptive technologies designed to align with the new ways that people want to work and be productive. You will also hear how organizations today are using Dell, Dell EMC and VMware solutions to create new digital workspaces to more effectively and securely connect workers and customers to essential information, while pushing decision-making to the edge to drive better business outcomes.
Modernizing IT with Server-Centric Architecture Powered by VMware vSAN and VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (STO1742BU)
Date/Time: Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Hanoch Eiron, VMware
Bill Leslie, Dell EMC
With server-centric IT, data centers can offer consumable services that match the public cloud yet offer better security, cost efficiency, and performance. This session will discuss the benefits of x86-based server-centric IT and the convergence of technologies and industry trends that now enable it. The session will also explain how customers can realize server-centric IT with VMware vSAN and the Dell EMC VxRail appliance family, along with detailed analysis demonstrating these claims.
Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way! (VIRT1374BU)
Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 29 (4:00pm - 5:00pm)
Deji Akomolafe, VMware
Matt Liebowitz, Dell EMC
Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) allows organizations to deploy a scalable and secure directory service for managing users, resources, and applications. Although virtualizing domain controllers has been a simple and supported operation for many years, many organizations have been very reluctant to do so, chiefly due to the pitfalls (synchronization, convergence, security, time management, availability, and data integrity) inherent in virtualizing a production, enterprise-level ADDS infrastructure. This session discusses and demonstrates considerations and practices for optimally and securely virtualizing your ADDS infrastructure with real-life failure scenarios and applicable remediation. Expect a new and eye-popping twist in our demonstrations this year.
Harnessing the Power of Data in a Virtual World (LDT2800PU)
Date/Time: Wednesday, Aug 30 (9:30am - 10:30am)
Catherine Greenberg, VMware
Barbara Latulippe, Dell EMC
Data lakes, Hadoop, big and little data: all of these conspire to make the business landscape for information much more complicated and complex to manage in today’s virtual environments. Most companies deploy software-as-a-service applications for human resources, sales, service, and even finance departments. To be valuable to decision makers, however, the data in these environments must be related in some way, analyzed and made available throughout the organization. Join this session to learn from experts who have tackled various aspects of this problem and produced great results.
Multisite Networking and Security with Cross-VC NSX: Part 2 (NET1191BU)
Date/Time: Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Humair Ahmed, VMware
Ian Allie, Dell EMC
VMware Cross-vCenter NSX enables logical networking and security across multiple vCenter domains/sites and provides enhanced solutions for multisite deployments. In this session, you'll learn the different deployment models and design considerations for Cross-vCenter NSX. We’ll discuss NSX Component/Site Failure and Recovery. We’ll also discuss how a Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB) solution such as F5 BIG-IP DNS can be leveraged in a Cross-vCenter NSX deployment to achieve Active-Active solutions. Finally, we’ll wrap up the session with a demo of a Cross-vCenter NSX Active/Active deployment with F5 BIG-IP DNS.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Alone Does Not Constitute a Private Cloud (PBO2872BU)
Date/Time: Thursday, Aug 31 (10:30am - 11:30am)
Jeff Whitman, VMware
Andrew Grzeskowiak, Dell EMC
Most enterprises recognize that “cloud” isn’t where you run, but how you run. The challenge for those building on-premises clouds is how to match the efficiency, agility, and stability of the large public cloud providers. While hyper-converged solutions are a step in the right direction, much more value can be realized by utilizing fully engineered solutions. Join us in this technical session to learn how one large enterprise modernized and simplified its private cloud.
Enterprise-Grade Data Protection for VMware vSAN with EMC Recoverpoint for VMs (STO3068BU)
Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 29 (1:00pm - 2:00pm)
Shobhan Lakkapragada, VMware
Yair Cohen, Dell EMC
Have you wondered what is the best solution for protecting applications and their data running on VMware vSAN solution? In this session, we will review why thousands of customers are choosing vSAN as their primary storage solution. We will then review the various choices available to you including VMware vSphere Replication and EMC RecoverPoint for VMs. We will show you how to add enterprise grade data protection to your Virtual SAN environments by discussing use-cases such as local and remote protection, sync or async replication with near zero RPO, any point in time recovery, consistency groups, multi-site protection, and DR orchestration.
The Software-Defined Storage Revolution Is Here: Discover Your Options (STO1216BU)
Narasimha Krishnakumar, Director of Product Management, VMware
Jason Brown, Product Marketing, Dell EMC
During the past decade, web-scale companies have shown how to operate data centers with ruthless efficiency by utilizing software-defined storage (SDS). Now, enterprises and service providers are joining the SDS revolution to achieve radical reductions in storage lifecycle costs (TCO). Learn how Dell Technologies' SDS portfolio is revolutionizing the data center as we highlight customer success stories of VMware vSAN and Dell EMC ScaleIO.
Implementing Horizon 7 and Horizon Cloud on VxRail (ADV1589BU)
Graeme Gordon, Senior End User Computing Architect, VMware
Andrew Mc Daniel, CTO & Sr. Director - CCC Strategy & Product Management, Dell
In this session, you will learn about the key components, architecture, and performance of VMware Horizon 7 on Dell's VxRail platform. We will cover the different VxRail hardware configurations and how they relate to delivering Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon Apps. We will cover the technical details of how to set up Horizon 7 on VxRail, design considerations, scalability, and management. Finally we will show the performance results of Horizon 7 workloads on VxRail using the Login VSI workload simulator.