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What better way to wrap up 2024 than with must see content from Product and Industry experts? The VMUG Virtual December Event will deliver a highly interactive, 3-D virtual environment with live video-streaming keynote and breakout sessions with live Q&A, on-demand breakout sessions, and interactive partner posters.
Join Krish Prasad, Senior Vice President and General Manager and Paul Turner, Vice President of Products, VCF Division for a deep dive on VMware Cloud Foundation. The session will provide clarity and insights on how to accelerate your journey from vSphere and technology silos to VCF, a true private cloud platform. Featuring an expansive VCF 9 demo and exciting innovation updates across compute, storage, and networking, this session will help you understand how to boost your value and get started today.
Krish Prasad
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Cloud Foundation
Paul Turner
Vice President of Products, VCF Division, Broadcom
Keeping up with the latest application and operating system updates, hardware updates, vSphere updates, security patches, and configuration standards is challenging in the current IT climate. This session will cover VMware-based EUC best practices for full lifecycle enablement, including automated app UAT, performance impact testing, and continuous monitoring. Gain best practices on cost reduction, better image quality, increased productivity, and user satisfaction while mastering the necessary updates and image changes like a PRO.
Blair Parkhill
Director, Technology Alliance and Vendor Programs, Login VSI
As VMware environments evolve and expand into multi-cloud architectures, organizations are seeking more flexible and comprehensive security solutions that go beyond traditional network security offerings.
In this session, we will introduce Cisco Cloud Protection - a revolutionary AI-native security suite that offers innovative approaches to workload segmentation and vulnerability protection across VMware infrastructures and multi-clouds.
Join us to discover how innovative technologies like eBPF and AI provide security that works harmoniously with your VMware infrastructure and beyond.
We will explore:
• The changing landscape of data center and cloud security, and why traditional approaches fall short
• How the Cisco Cloud Protection innovative suite enables more flexible, granular, and intelligent workload segmentation
• Cisco’s unique approach to distributed vulnerability protection and virtual patching
• Key differentiators between Cisco Cloud Protection and traditional Network Security solutions, including AI-driven policy automation and self-qualifying updates
Whether you are looking to enhance your existing Security deployment or exploring new options for securing your hybrid infrastructure, this session will provide valuable insights into the future of multi-cloud workload protection. Join us to learn how Cisco Cloud Protection can help simplify operations, reduce risk, and future-proof your security architecture across a multi-cloud world.
Ant Ducker
Global Security Technologist, Cisco
Traditional storage arrays are complex and expensive to purchase, operate and replace. Hyper-converged eventually gives way to imbalance between compute and storage, while saving on cost and complexity. Will the cycle never end? Must we either overpay or underperform always?
IBM Storage Ceph resolves both of these issues, being the first Software Defined Storage platform to truly offer the performance at scale you need, with the TCO that you want for all of your File, Block and Object workloads. Come explore what's new with Storage Ceph with Technical Product Manager, Mike Burkhart: how we leverage x86 hardware to broker excellent performance, durability and scale, with the agility every business wants to scale up and down, self-heal as well as call-home and provide lower cost and higher value to your Vmware VCF Solution.
Mike Burkhart
Technical Product Manager, IBM
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offers a streamlined solution for modernizing your IT infrastructure. This session provides a foundational overview of VCF, a full-stack hyperconverged platform designed to simplify data center operations and accelerate the deployment of modern apps. Explore the core components of VCF, including SDDC Manager, VMware NSX, and VMware vSAN. Understand how VCF enables lifecycle management, centralized operations dashboards, and automated application template deployment. This session is ideal for IT practitioners, system administrators, and architects who are just getting started with VCF. We cover common use cases, key technical features, and the primary benefits of VCF.
Kyle Gleed
Product Marketing Engineer
Attention network engineers and VMware vSphere admins new to VMware NSX: This session is tailored to your needs. Explore how NSX revolutionizes networking in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments, simplifying complexities and enhancing efficiency. Witness firsthand how automation and centralized control mechanisms within NSX streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and accelerate IT service delivery. Embark on a journey of discovery as you unlock the transformative potential of NSX within VCF. Elevate your networking capabilities, enhance agility, optimize performance, and swiftly resolve network issues while maintaining uninterrupted functionality to meet the evolving demands of modern IT infrastructure.
Francois Tallet
Technical Product Manager
Join this panel discussion where several community members share their stories and opinions on the new VCP-VCF exam. We will talk about the value it brings; what the exam unlocks for you and what difficulty you can expect.
Maarten Van Driessen
Freelance Infrastructure Consultant
Matt Heldstab
Systems Engineer, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Dave Simpson
VMware vExpert
This introductory session provides an overview of the solutions available for seamlessly migrating workloads to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). In 45 minutes, we'll explore the various migration paths and provide a high-level understanding of each option, including HCX, Live Recovery, and the VCF Import Tool. Discover the diverse tools and techniques for migrating to VCF and gain insights into which approach might be best suited for your environment.
Mike McLaughlin
Product Marketing Engineer
Puneet Chawla
Technology Product Management
FinOps is a discipline that combines financial management principles with cloud engineering and operations to provide organizations with a better understanding of their cloud spending. Having the ability to visualize, analyze, and optimize the cost of your environment are important components of it. Come to this session to see how you can leverage VMware Cloud Foundation capabilities such as Cost Drivers, Reclaim, Rate Cards, ShowBack, and ChargeBack to better manage your cloud spend.
Kelcey Lemon
Technical Marketing Engineer
Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of End-User Computing (EUC)! This session dives into the latest trends, technologies, and innovations shaping the EUC ecosystem. From emerging tools and platforms to strategies for enhancing user experiences and productivity, we'll explore how organizations can optimize their EUC environments to meet the demands of a modern, hybrid workforce.
Whether you're an IT leader, administrator, or enthusiast, this session provides valuable insights and actionable takeaways to keep you informed and empowered in the world of EUC.
Patrick Coble
Security Nerd, VDISEC
Jarian Gibson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Engineering - End User Computing, Nutanix
Malicious threat actors love to hide in the noise of the existing network, however, by reverse engineering the anatomy of an attack you can learn how to mitigate the most common attack methods. This session will show you how to cut attackers off early by stopping them from using your own open ports and protocols against you.
Chris McCain
Senior Technologist, Application Networking and Security
Streamline and simplify consumption of VCF infrastructure. With increasing complexity in IT today, the need for more efficient and automated solutions has become paramount. This session will focus on enabling participants to configure and build an automated self-service cloud using the VCF IaaS consumption surface through in-depth technical demos led by a subject matter expert.
Vincent Riccio
Technical Marketing Manager
NEWS FLASH! Broadcom has a new, streamlined licensing approach! These changes impact Citrix CVAD and Omnissa Horizon customers who run their EUC solution on VMware vSphere. This session will cover the new licensing approach, and how it impacts customers running vSphere, vSAN, NSX and more! We will also talk about what this means for VMUG Advantage and EvalExperience customers.
Matt Heldstab
Systems Engineer, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
As industries continue to evolve, the demand for data centers to be both future-proof and AI-ready is paramount. By modernizing data centers with Intel’s AI technologies with VMware Cloud Foundation, organizations can achieve significant improvements in efficiency, scalability, and readiness for future demands. This presentation will explore Intel’s comprehensive approach to integrating AI everywhere, focusing on the critical aspects of AI readiness and the deployment of AI pipelines. We will discuss the benefits of running inference on Intel Xeon processors, highlighting their total cost of ownership advantages, sustainability, and flexibility. Additionally, the presentation will cover Intel’s innovative AI accelerator AMX solutions on Intel Xeon and VMware infrastructure, tailored specifically to generative AI training and inference.
Kannan Mani
Technical Strategist Director, Intel
Forrester research shows that 90% of IT managers believe the future of their EUC strategy is web-based, but 50% of their applications remain client-based, holding them back from this transition. Join us for this session where we'll discuss the role that Virtual App Delivery (VAD) is playing in helping organizations easily deliver all their apps to any device while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of traditional virtual desktop environments. Google will provide a live demo of the Cameyo Virtual App Delivery (VAD) platform and answer any questions you have
Jordan Pusey
Customer Engineer, Google
Full stack lifecycle management using vSphere Lifecycle Manager provides a one-stop-shop to manage ESXi images, drivers and firmware as well as hardware compatibility checks integrated with vSAN.
Feidhlim O'Leary
Product Marketing Engineer
Join Bob Plankers to talk about designing secure & hardened virtual infrastructure to defeat current threats. We'll talk specifically about perimeter hardening, identity & access control, and new tools available in our hardening guidance that can help organizations be secure faster.
Bob Plankers
Product Marketing Engineer
Accelerate your move to a private cloud with NEW entitlements for VCF Professional Services, Learning, and Certification. Get help with architecture, implementation, upgrades, imports, automation, etc. Learn how in this on-demand session, including special offers just for VMUG members
Cecilio Alvarado
Head of VCF Portfolio Services Engineering and Lifecycle Services
Tim Burkard
Staff Technical Learning Engineer