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home General Information Agenda-at-a-Glance & Campus Maps Conference Highlights General Sessions & Spotlight Sessions Breakout Sessions & Group Discussions Partners Hands-on Labs Solutions Exchange Spotlight Sessions Tuesday Take advantage of VMworld’s Spotlight Sessions, which compliment other breakout sessions by offering valuable information on a variety of topics. Presented by <strong>VMware</strong> and its partners, these sessions cover products, solutions and a vision on the transformation of IT and technology trends. 11:00 – 12:00 SS1011 How to Transform Your Business with an Agile Data Infrastructure Featuring Customer PeakColo and <strong>VMware</strong> Technical Level: Speaker(s): Luke Norris, PeakColo; Vaughn Stewart, NetApp HALL 8, lower level | Room G3 IT departments are struggling to manage the scope, scale, and complexity of their infrastructures in today’s increasingly datadriven enterprises. A new design approach is needed: a converged, virtual storage infrastructure that combines powerful new clustering technologies for unlimited scalability and non-disruptive operations with the industry’s most comprehensive, yet elegantly simple data management software. This new paradigm will empower businesses to achieve efficiency and growth as well as address IT economics and rollout at scale. Join Vaughn Stewart, Director & Evangelist for Virtualization & Cloud Computing, as he introduces NetApp’s next generation storage platform. This agile data infrastructure – intelligent, immortal, and infinite – lets you harness, not fear, the power of data for effective decision-making, innovation and competitive advantage. NetApp’s 20 year track record of innovation continues with multiple new technologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible to help businesses go further, faster. 12:30 – 13:30 SS1022 From Ideas to Reality - A Closer Look Inside <strong>VMware</strong> Innovation Speaker(s): Julia Austin, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc; Anne Holler, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc; Melina McLarty, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc; Ravi Soundararajan, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc. HALL 8, lower level | Room G3 Numerous companies talk about how innovative they are, but what is really happening behind the scenes to ensure they continue to introduce new and disruptive technologies to their customers and partners? Join Julia Austin, VP of Innovation at <strong>VMware</strong>, and some of <strong>VMware</strong>’s top engineers to learn more about the innovation programs and practices in place at <strong>VMware</strong> that bring revolutionary ideas to the market. You will hear about the history of some of <strong>VMware</strong>’s top features and products, early-stage technology ideas incubating inside of the company, as well as <strong>VMware</strong>’s Open Innovation Challenge. 14:00 – 15:00 SS1012 Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud: Build a Cloud You’re Proud of Without Making Million Dollar Mistakes! Speaker(s): David Chalmers, Hewlett Packard; Jerry Walsh, Hewlett Packard HALL 8, lower level | Room G3 How do you offer IT innovation, speed and agility to your business users but still maintain control across private and public clouds deployments? In this session, HP will share with you real-world learnings from clients and walk through demonstrations of the best practices to design, deploy, manage and secure hybrid cloud environments with <strong>VMware</strong>. HP Solution Architects will demonstrate how the HP Converged Cloud architecture and components help you enable IT brokering including the cloud subscriber and provider portal, the service delivery controller, and Cloud Maps. During the session, you will get a preview of innovative new integrations with <strong>VMware</strong> including virtual security, Auto Flexing, Flat SANs, and Converged Infrastructure. 15:30 – 16:30 SS1025 The Evolving Data Center – Past, Present, and Future Speaker(s): Tommi Salli, Cisco Systems Inc. HALL 8, lower level | Room G3 Innovation is key for the architecting infrastructures built for cloud computing which demand massive scale, resiliency, automation, agility and security. Cisco believes that customers will derive the greatest value from the tight integration of emerging software approaches with the underlying hardware. Making networks programmable to optimize application performance is a natural evolutionary step for the industry. Cisco’s approach encompasses hardware and software, networking and compute and physical and virtual infrastructure. Cisco believes that customers will derive the greatest value from the tight integration of emerging software approaches with the underlying hardware. Areas of Interest FD Federal S FS Financial Services E H Healthcare T R Retail SMB State & Local Education Telecommunication Technical Levels Business Solutions Technical Advanced Technical 23
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