My Sydney vForum 2010 Agenda
I finally got myself around the agenda for the two fully packed days at the vForum 2010. This event should actually be called VMworld Oceania as VMware is expecting 6,000 people to go through the corridors and sessions at the Darling Harbour Convention Center.
Being a presenter I will be busy, however I will try to blog and bring you a little bit of the event to you. I might even do some video. The sessions I have selected to attend are primarily based on my personal interests, followed by the presenter. Off course this exclude the sessions I’m presenting.
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For the first time, VMware is hosting Lab tutorials. These Labs are the same ones used at VMworld US and Europe; and will be presented to you via PCoIP all the way from the datacenters in US. The Labs will cover everything from virtualized desktop infrastructure, through to vCenter management products and the VMware-powered cloud.
Keep tuned for the Tweet Up at the end of the first day.
Back to my agenda…
DAY 1
10:55 - 11:35 | Imagine Virtually Anything - Building a Virtualized Dynamic Datacenter with Cisco, NetApp, and VMware | Jay Kidd, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and Development, Storage Solutions Group, NetApp |
11:45 - 12:25 | Cloudy with a chance of latency: WAN acceleration for cloud computing | Steve Dixon - Managing Director, Riverbed Technology Australia / New Zealand |
13:20 - 14:00 | Virtual Desktop Cloud - The Future Vision of End-User Computing | David Wakeman Sr Product Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware APJ |
14:10 - 14:50 | BMC Solutions for Cisco Unified Computing System | Mark Musselman, Global Client Director, BMC Software |
15:10 - 15:50 | What's New in VMware View 4.5 - Where to Deploy and Why | David Wakeman Sr Product Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware APJ, and Asanga Wanigatunga Systems Engineer, Enterprise desktop, VMware ANZ |
16:00 - 16:40 | VMware View Composer: Technical Deep Dive with Tiered storage | Andre Leibovici, Senior Consultant, VMware Professional Services |
16:50 - 17:30 | Performance Best Practices for vSphere (Advanced Technical) | Scott Drummonds, Technical Director, vSpecialist, EMC Corporation |
DAY 2
10:55 - 11:35 | Cisco & VMware: Delivering Business Agility, Scaling Datacenter Fabrics with Secure Cloud | Doug Farndale, Regional Sales Manager, Data Centre, Asia Pacific Cisco Systems, Singapore |
11:45 - 12:25 | Infrastructure Technologies Purpose Built for the Private Cloud - Including DEMO | Chad Sakac, VP, VMware Technical Alliance, EMC Corporation |
13:20 - 14:00 | Lessons Learned in Deploying and Managing over 2000 View Desktops across Australia | Jeff O'Connor, VMware PSO senior consultant, Enterprise Desktop |
14:10 - 14:50 | True Datacenter Virtualization with a Fluid Data Architecture | Andy Hardy, Managing Director of International Sales, Compellent |
15:10 - 15:50 | Experts Exchange: Desktop Virtualization Panel discussion | Andre Leibovici and Jeff O'Connor (VMware PSO), David Lloyd (EMC), John Martin (NetApp) David Wakeman (VMware), Kevin Middleton (VMware Desktop Specialist) |
16:00 - 16:40 | 1.1 Million Zimbra Mailboxes at IInet: Customer Case Study | Mark McIntyre, Territory Manager WA, VMware and Jonathon Lanzon, Systems Engineering Manager, iiNet |
16:50 - 17:30 | vDS Deep Dive: Managing and Troubleshooting | Trevor Gerdes, Systems Engineer, VMware Australia |