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 breakout sessions & group discussions WEDNESDAY 12:30 – 13:30 OPS-CIM1309 vCAT 3.0: Operating a <strong>VMware</strong> vCloud Speaker(s): Rohan Kalra, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc.; Kevin Lees, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc. HALL 8, LOWER LEVEL | Room C2 The <strong>VMware</strong> vCloud Architect Toolkit (vCAT) was first published in late 2010 and has quickly become recognized as the industry leading source for building and consuming a <strong>VMware</strong> cloud environment. It has done so by providing an architecture, along with design considerations, based on <strong>VMware</strong>’s direct experience architecting, designing, and implementing both private and public clouds for our customers. With the release of version 3.0, vCAT not only includes an expanded cloud technology scope but also begins to address how to operate a <strong>VMware</strong> cloud environment as well. Gartner found that Management and Operations Processes was the number one challenge identified by participants of its Data Center Conference. Recognizing this as one of the very key challenges in cloud computing, <strong>VMware</strong> provides its customers, through vCAT 3.0, a maturity model and operations framework-based set of operational and organizational “design” considerations. This session introduces the participants to vCAT in general, the <strong>VMware</strong> Cloud Operations Maturity Model and Framework, and the resulting key operational and organizational considerations for operating a <strong>VMware</strong> cloud environment as found in the “Operating a <strong>VMware</strong> Cloud” document contained in vCAT 3.0. PAR1503 Accelerate Your Business and Increase Profitability: Leveraging <strong>VMware</strong> Partner <strong>Program</strong>s Technical Level: Speaker(s): Gemma Graham, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc.; Uta Haller, <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc. HALL 8, LOWER LEVEL | Room E3 Is your organization leveraging the award-winning <strong>VMware</strong>® Partner Network <strong>Program</strong> (VPN)? Come hear the latest on our rewards and incentives programs and learn how to distinguish yourself to your customers and in the marketplace. <strong>VMware</strong> Partner Network provides an evolutionary and pragmatic way to drive both license and service businesses, create new opportunities, increase profitability and close deals more quickly. You’ll leave with the tools you need to stand out to customers and gain a long-term competitive advantage with your <strong>VMware</strong> practice. SPO3290 Vblock Systems in the Real World – Right Here, Right Now! Technical Level: Moderator: Burney Barker, VCE. HALL 8, LOWER LEVEL | Room A2 Today, driven by IT efficiency and economics, many businesses are adopting converged infrastructure. Hear from real-world customer experiences and join this interactive panel of business and technical decision-makers to discuss: • The top 5 use cases for converged infrastructure • Customers’ journey to optimize infrastructure with Vblock Systems • Value and time savings from converged infrastructure • The ultimate value proposition of speed to deploy resulting in improved cloud economics for customers SPO3304 Best Practices for Collaborative DevOps with Optimal Application Performance in <strong>VMware</strong> Environments Technical Level: Speaker(s): Pratik Gupta, IBM; Robin Hernandez, IBM HALL 8, LOWER LEVEL | Room C3 Are you missing windows of opportunity for adopting new and innovative business solutions? Does a lack of collaboration and poor visibility across organizations keep you from achieving your business objectives? Statistics show that more than 50% of applications released to production are rolled back, over budget and missing critical features. The most innovative companies know that finding ways to quickly develop and deploy revenue generating software on time and under budget are the key to success. Accuracy and agility are critical to DevOps, however, effective collaboration between Development and Operations to deliver scalable and manageable software can be a challenge. Join this session to hear an integrated approach that will help you facilitate the successful deployment and adoption of new services. Learn how you can set up a DevOps project workflow, track project changes, implement no-touch automatic execution of tasks, leverage an internal library to track versions of releases, and utilize a dashboard to gain visibility of flow and metrics that will help you reduce production problems and improve the performance and speed of your DevOps process. Also understand trends and directions in application performance management and new innovations that dramatically simplify your ability to ensure availability and performance of your applications. How can you quickly diagnose a problem and fix it quickly? How can you ensure the availability and performance of my overall application workload? How can I use workload specific knowledge and instrumentation to better manager my environment? Join this session to hear an integrated approach that will help you facilitate the successful deployment and adoption of new services. Learn how you can set up a DevOps project workflow, track project changes, implement no-touch automatic execution of tasks, leverage an internal library to track versions of releases, and utilize a dashboard to gain visibility of flow and metrics that will help you reduce production problems and improve the performance and speed of your DevOps process. Also understand trends and directions in application performance management and new innovations that dramatically simplify your ability to ensure availability and performance of your applications. How can you quickly diagnose a problem and fix it quickly? How can you ensure the availability and performance of my overall application workload? How can I use workload specific knowledge and instrumentation to better manager my environment? Session Identifiers Areas of Interest FD Federal FS Financial Services S E H Healthcare T R Retail Technical Levels Business Solutions Technical Advanced Technical APP-BCA Applications: Business Critical Applications APP-CAP Applications: Cloud Application Platform EUC End-user Computing GD Group Discussion INF-BCO INF-NET INF-SEC INF-STO Infrastructure: Business Continuity Infrastructure: Networking Infrastructure: Security and Compliance Infrastructure: Storage INF-VSP ITT OPS-CIM OPS-CSM Infrasturucture: vSphere IT Transformation Operations: Cloud Infrastructure Management Operations: Cloud Service Management PAR SPO SS TEX Partner Track (for <strong>VMware</strong> partners only) Technology Partner/Sponsor Spotlight Session Technology Exchange for Alliance Partners SMB State & Local Education Telecommunication 78
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