Daily Session Log

Wednesday, 08/30/2017

vRealize Automation Solves the Container Onboarding Conundrum: Customers looking for a strategy for on-boarding Gen-3 apps (containers) without abandoning critical business processes finally have a solution to do so. vRealize Automation's native Container Management engine provides a bridge for building, delivering, and lifecycle-managing container hosts and applications side-by-side with traditional IaaS apps, including the ability to deliver hybrid "gen-2.5" apps using vRA's unified service designer. This allows customers to gain insight into container provisioning by leveraging all the common enterprise services vRA has to offer, including governance, extensibility, ecosystem integration, and lifecycle management. Join this session to dig into this exciting new feature and gain insight into the technical details of vRA's integrated container management.

Review: Will be provided at a later time.

Achieving Success in a Multi-Cloud World: Attend this executive panel session to hear direct from industry cloud leaders trends they are seeing in the cloud market and how their most successful customers are achieving success in today’s unique cloud environment. At the conclusion of the panel you’ll have a chance to ask the panel your own unique questions and hear direct from the experts.

Review: Will be provided at a later time.

When Clouds Collide, Lightning Strikes: The landscape of IT infrastructure is changing drastically as the private & public clouds collide into seamless infrastructure. New partnerships between VMware & public cloud providers are creating opportunities for companies to be more agile, efficient, & scalable than ever before. This collision is an opportunity for the IT professional to capture lightning in a bottle by learning new skills that will keep them on the forefront of the changing data center architecture. IT professionals, like the organizations they work for, need to adopt growth mindsets that take challenges head on, embrace new technologies, & let go of the fixed mindset of old data center methods. The success of new data center strategies hinges on the ability of IT organizations to realize the value of new tools, automated processes & a more unified workforce.

Review: Will be provided at a later time.

Apple MDM for the Enterprise and the New Mac Management: At WWDC in June, Apple announced several exciting updates for its major operating systems. With consistent same-day support for operating system and device updates, we're working with Apple to deliver MDM support for iOS updates. And with updates from Apple and new EMM innovations from VMware AirWatch, the way our customers manage macOS is evolving to include out-of-the-box experiences and broader support for bring-your-own-device scenarios. Join our session to learn more about what was announced, what's coming, and what will soon be possible.

Review: Will be provided at a later time.

During my spare time in between sessions throughout the day, I took advantage of any labs available in the VMware Hands on Labs area and checked out the various vendor booths available at the VMworld Solutions Exchange area.

Hands on Labs (HOL's) information can be found here: https://www.vmworld.com/en/us/learning/hands-on-labs.html

VMworld Solutions Exchange information can be found here: https://www.vmworld.com/en/us/solutions-exchange.html