VMworld 2009 Super Sessions
The following Super Sessions will be hosted by VMware and VMworld 2009 Platinum Sponsors:
VMware - Extending Your IT Beyond the Datacenter: The vCloud Initiative
Join VMware executives, cloud partners and customers as we look at how leveraging external offerings will enable you to reduce expenses and drive innovation. This session will uncover new cloud offerings you can expect from VMware and its partners, as well as how your internal datacenter can leverage external clouds to deliver services that save you time and money, but still give you the security and control you need. Don't miss this session if you've been asked to do more with less, if you have developers using on-demand cloud services externally, or if you're looking for direction on your cloud journey and need to know what applications belong in external clouds.
Wednesday - 1:00pm
VMware - Q&A Session with Paul
This is your chance to ask VMware's President and CEO Paul Maritz your questions in a one hour, informal Q&A session.
Intel - Technology Transformations Central to the Evolution of Flexible Computing
Evolution can be defined as the adaptation of a system in response to some pressure. As enterprise computing requirements continue to grow under the constraints of budget, power, cooling and space, a new computational model is evolving. Intel and VMware are leading the industry in technology to facilitate this evolution of cloud architectures. Hear how customers are taking advantage of flexible performance and energy efficiency today, and how we are delivering transformational technology and solutions to maximize performance and optimize for efficiency in a flexible computing environment tomorrow.
Tuesday - 2:30pm
EMC - Infrastructure Architectures Purpose Built for the Virtual Datacenter
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 products that enhance your vSphere environment through vStorage, and vCenter integrations. Learn about key storage technologies that work with, are complementary to, and integrated directly with vSphere that include various capacity optimization technologies such as de-duplication. You will hear data protection topics so you can learn how to protect and recover everything from single files, the entire virtual machines, to the complete site itself. Discover also various methods and techniques for managing the entire virtual data center and hear about future technologies developed to move assets in and out of the cloud.
HP - Stop Virtualizing Servers. Start Virtualizing Infrastructure
By the end of this year, virtual servers will outnumber physical servers for the first time in history. Is your data center ready? In this session, HP Executive Vice President, Ann Livermore will demonstrate HP's vision for data center transformation that will reunite and optimize your infrastructure across network, storage, servers and facilities. HP will reveal new innovations to build a path to the private cloud that not only deliver results now, but also empower your business to be ready for what is next. In this session, you will also see a demonstration of a virtual infrastructure that spans from desktop to data center. The demonstration will emphasize the need for deep integration between VMware and your virtualized infrastructure. Senior Vice Presidents Mark Potter of Infrastructure Software and Blades and Rob Taylor from EDS, an HP company, will spotlight how HP has helped thousands of customers get more from virtual servers to improve agility, lower costs, and raise productivity.
Tuesday - 1:30pm
VMware, Cisco and EMC - Collaborating to Accelerate the Transformation to a Virtualized Datacenter
Join VMware, Cisco and EMC in this session to hear from the 3 industry leaders on how the 3 companies are working together to provide a virtualization platform enabling customers to build a virtualized datacenter and benefit from Private Cloud computing. IT is on the cusp of a major change as pressures continue to mount around data center growth and requirements to minimize downtime and improve resource utilization. Overall, do more with less. New technologies such as virtualization, SOA, SaaS, are available to meet this challenge, but businesses are wrestling with how to transform their data centers to leverage these innovations. VMware, Cisco and EMC share a common vision for the virtualized data center, and are in a unique position to deliver virtualization solutions to the enterprise. Join this session for an introduction to collaboration we have underway to deliver next generation computing. In this session we will layout our vision of the journey to a virtualized data center and how VMware, Cisco and EMC are aligning to collaborate with customers as they transform their data center.
Tuesday - 4:00pm
Cisco and VMware - Delivering Innovation for Virtualization
Cisco and VMware are industry pioneers bringing innovation to datacenter environments to improve productivity, increase service agility and lower total cost of ownership. This session will highlight specific innovations that address specific pain points. We will outline how VN-link technology allows customers to apply security and policy at a virtual instance level. We will describe how customers are simplifying their infrastructures leveraging a Unified Fabric architecture. We will discuss Unified Computing, which integrates compute, networking and storage access into a single, integrated system, optimized for virtualized environments. Designed to work as a cohesive system, the Unified Computing architecture provides the density, control and performance to allow customers to virtualize more of their application footprint. This system allows you to allocate and redeploy resources quickly and efficiently, to meet rapidly changing business requirements. The time to deploy new applications is reduced from weeks or months, to minutes.
Wednesday - 10:00am
Symantec - Complete the Promise of Virtualization
Is your virtualization strategy becoming a reality? As virtualization deployments expand to large scale production environments defining an adequate information management strategy becomes critical. Ask yourself:
1) What is my virtualization data management strategy? Is it different than the way I manage my physical world?
2) What am I doing to ensure my data is protected?
3) How will I protect my data and applications, in the virtual and physical world, and make sure my applications are available and can be recovered?
4) How do I manage my physical and virtual world while facing IT budget reductions?
Today you are forced to do more with less while meeting critical service levels. To achieve the promises of virtualization you must reduce the complexity of managing information across your virtual world while preserving best practices for efficiency and cost savings from your physical environment.
Wednesday - 11:00am
Dell - How to Get Ahead in the Cloud With Your Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground
Dell executives will discuss a pragmatic approach to planning for and building the datacenter of today and the future based on a standards-based architecture that complements and extends current IT investments. The keynote will consider how the continuing evolution and integration of Dell's portfolio of technologies, products and services can simply and cost-effectively drive IT simplification to deliver measurable, tangible benefits to the organization. Topics discussed will include how to evolve your virtual datacenter to simply take advantage of 10Gb Data Center Ethernet, how to prepare a flexible infrastructure to leverage private and external clouds and how server and desktop computing will evolve to transparently adapt to an increasingly dynamic IT environment.
Wednesday - 1:30pm
Wyse - Desktop Virtualization / Cloud Computing: Tales from the Real World. We Did It - What We Learned.
Join a panel of real companies that implemented Virtual Desktops in stationary and mobile scenarios. How they did it, issued faced, and lessons learned. Learn what worked, what didn't, what went up in flames, and vendors / products to avoid at all costs.
Wednesday - 2:30pm
NetApp - Clear up the Cloud: Key Infrastructure Requirements and Real-World Implementations
Learn how virtualized dynamic data center infrastructure enables real-world cloud deployments. Join NetApp founder and executive vice president, Dave Hitz, and VMware CTO , Dr. Steve Herrod, as they reveal the shared NetApp and VMware vision for cloud computing and explain how NetApp and VMware work together to provide unique benefits to virtualized dynamic data center infrastructure. Learn how the tight integration of NetApp and VMware products and technologies can help you realize dramatic improvements in data mobility, data center security, and IT efficiency.
Wednesday - 4:00pm
IBM - What You Need to Know to Virtualize Today's Datacenter
Many businesses are looking for the best way to improve service levels, bring new services online quickly, process information in real-time, increase business agility, and respond to new business opportunities and quickly turn them into profits. In most cases, IT investment is required, but in these economic times businesses must get a quick Return On Investment (ROI). A Dynamic Infrastructure built on Virtualization and Cloud Computing can deliver affordable IT that will establish a solid foundation for future growth. These innovations can reduce IT complexity to help your data center become more nimble, resilient and secure while reducing costs. Listen to a panel of experts that can help you understand how to optimize your data center for virtualization. In this session you will become familiar with the key attributes of a successful virtualization project. Our experts will explain the fundamental considerations when defining server, storage, client, and I/O device virtualization solutions. This highly experienced group is recognized in the industry today for their technical expertise and brings to this session a technical knowledge of hardware, software, and specific implementations of virtualization. A Smarter Planet needs a Dynamic Infrastructure that helps you address business challenges and reduce costs today and in the future. Join this session and learn how to virtualize your data center effectively and make a fast ROI a reality.
VMware Super Sessions
Wednesday - 9:30amVMware - Extending Your IT Beyond the Datacenter: The vCloud Initiative
Join VMware executives, cloud partners and customers as we look at how leveraging external offerings will enable you to reduce expenses and drive innovation. This session will uncover new cloud offerings you can expect from VMware and its partners, as well as how your internal datacenter can leverage external clouds to deliver services that save you time and money, but still give you the security and control you need. Don't miss this session if you've been asked to do more with less, if you have developers using on-demand cloud services externally, or if you're looking for direction on your cloud journey and need to know what applications belong in external clouds.
Wednesday - 1:00pm
VMware - Q&A Session with Paul
This is your chance to ask VMware's President and CEO Paul Maritz your questions in a one hour, informal Q&A session.
Global Platinum Sponsor Super Sessions
Tuesday - 11:00amIntel - Technology Transformations Central to the Evolution of Flexible Computing
Evolution can be defined as the adaptation of a system in response to some pressure. As enterprise computing requirements continue to grow under the constraints of budget, power, cooling and space, a new computational model is evolving. Intel and VMware are leading the industry in technology to facilitate this evolution of cloud architectures. Hear how customers are taking advantage of flexible performance and energy efficiency today, and how we are delivering transformational technology and solutions to maximize performance and optimize for efficiency in a flexible computing environment tomorrow.
Tuesday - 2:30pm
EMC - Infrastructure Architectures Purpose Built for the Virtual Datacenter
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 products that enhance your vSphere environment through vStorage, and vCenter integrations. Learn about key storage technologies that work with, are complementary to, and integrated directly with vSphere that include various capacity optimization technologies such as de-duplication. You will hear data protection topics so you can learn how to protect and recover everything from single files, the entire virtual machines, to the complete site itself. Discover also various methods and techniques for managing the entire virtual data center and hear about future technologies developed to move assets in and out of the cloud.
Platinum Sponsor Super Sessions
Tuesday - 9:30amHP - Stop Virtualizing Servers. Start Virtualizing Infrastructure
By the end of this year, virtual servers will outnumber physical servers for the first time in history. Is your data center ready? In this session, HP Executive Vice President, Ann Livermore will demonstrate HP's vision for data center transformation that will reunite and optimize your infrastructure across network, storage, servers and facilities. HP will reveal new innovations to build a path to the private cloud that not only deliver results now, but also empower your business to be ready for what is next. In this session, you will also see a demonstration of a virtual infrastructure that spans from desktop to data center. The demonstration will emphasize the need for deep integration between VMware and your virtualized infrastructure. Senior Vice Presidents Mark Potter of Infrastructure Software and Blades and Rob Taylor from EDS, an HP company, will spotlight how HP has helped thousands of customers get more from virtual servers to improve agility, lower costs, and raise productivity.
Tuesday - 1:30pm
VMware, Cisco and EMC - Collaborating to Accelerate the Transformation to a Virtualized Datacenter
Join VMware, Cisco and EMC in this session to hear from the 3 industry leaders on how the 3 companies are working together to provide a virtualization platform enabling customers to build a virtualized datacenter and benefit from Private Cloud computing. IT is on the cusp of a major change as pressures continue to mount around data center growth and requirements to minimize downtime and improve resource utilization. Overall, do more with less. New technologies such as virtualization, SOA, SaaS, are available to meet this challenge, but businesses are wrestling with how to transform their data centers to leverage these innovations. VMware, Cisco and EMC share a common vision for the virtualized data center, and are in a unique position to deliver virtualization solutions to the enterprise. Join this session for an introduction to collaboration we have underway to deliver next generation computing. In this session we will layout our vision of the journey to a virtualized data center and how VMware, Cisco and EMC are aligning to collaborate with customers as they transform their data center.
Tuesday - 4:00pm
Cisco and VMware - Delivering Innovation for Virtualization
Cisco and VMware are industry pioneers bringing innovation to datacenter environments to improve productivity, increase service agility and lower total cost of ownership. This session will highlight specific innovations that address specific pain points. We will outline how VN-link technology allows customers to apply security and policy at a virtual instance level. We will describe how customers are simplifying their infrastructures leveraging a Unified Fabric architecture. We will discuss Unified Computing, which integrates compute, networking and storage access into a single, integrated system, optimized for virtualized environments. Designed to work as a cohesive system, the Unified Computing architecture provides the density, control and performance to allow customers to virtualize more of their application footprint. This system allows you to allocate and redeploy resources quickly and efficiently, to meet rapidly changing business requirements. The time to deploy new applications is reduced from weeks or months, to minutes.
Wednesday - 10:00am
Symantec - Complete the Promise of Virtualization
Is your virtualization strategy becoming a reality? As virtualization deployments expand to large scale production environments defining an adequate information management strategy becomes critical. Ask yourself:
1) What is my virtualization data management strategy? Is it different than the way I manage my physical world?
2) What am I doing to ensure my data is protected?
3) How will I protect my data and applications, in the virtual and physical world, and make sure my applications are available and can be recovered?
4) How do I manage my physical and virtual world while facing IT budget reductions?
Today you are forced to do more with less while meeting critical service levels. To achieve the promises of virtualization you must reduce the complexity of managing information across your virtual world while preserving best practices for efficiency and cost savings from your physical environment.
Wednesday - 11:00am
Dell - How to Get Ahead in the Cloud With Your Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground
Dell executives will discuss a pragmatic approach to planning for and building the datacenter of today and the future based on a standards-based architecture that complements and extends current IT investments. The keynote will consider how the continuing evolution and integration of Dell's portfolio of technologies, products and services can simply and cost-effectively drive IT simplification to deliver measurable, tangible benefits to the organization. Topics discussed will include how to evolve your virtual datacenter to simply take advantage of 10Gb Data Center Ethernet, how to prepare a flexible infrastructure to leverage private and external clouds and how server and desktop computing will evolve to transparently adapt to an increasingly dynamic IT environment.
Wednesday - 1:30pm
Wyse - Desktop Virtualization / Cloud Computing: Tales from the Real World. We Did It - What We Learned.
Join a panel of real companies that implemented Virtual Desktops in stationary and mobile scenarios. How they did it, issued faced, and lessons learned. Learn what worked, what didn't, what went up in flames, and vendors / products to avoid at all costs.
Wednesday - 2:30pm
NetApp - Clear up the Cloud: Key Infrastructure Requirements and Real-World Implementations
Learn how virtualized dynamic data center infrastructure enables real-world cloud deployments. Join NetApp founder and executive vice president, Dave Hitz, and VMware CTO , Dr. Steve Herrod, as they reveal the shared NetApp and VMware vision for cloud computing and explain how NetApp and VMware work together to provide unique benefits to virtualized dynamic data center infrastructure. Learn how the tight integration of NetApp and VMware products and technologies can help you realize dramatic improvements in data mobility, data center security, and IT efficiency.
Wednesday - 4:00pm
IBM - What You Need to Know to Virtualize Today's Datacenter
Many businesses are looking for the best way to improve service levels, bring new services online quickly, process information in real-time, increase business agility, and respond to new business opportunities and quickly turn them into profits. In most cases, IT investment is required, but in these economic times businesses must get a quick Return On Investment (ROI). A Dynamic Infrastructure built on Virtualization and Cloud Computing can deliver affordable IT that will establish a solid foundation for future growth. These innovations can reduce IT complexity to help your data center become more nimble, resilient and secure while reducing costs. Listen to a panel of experts that can help you understand how to optimize your data center for virtualization. In this session you will become familiar with the key attributes of a successful virtualization project. Our experts will explain the fundamental considerations when defining server, storage, client, and I/O device virtualization solutions. This highly experienced group is recognized in the industry today for their technical expertise and brings to this session a technical knowledge of hardware, software, and specific implementations of virtualization. A Smarter Planet needs a Dynamic Infrastructure that helps you address business challenges and reduce costs today and in the future. Join this session and learn how to virtualize your data center effectively and make a fast ROI a reality.
