VMworld 2011 Session Voting is Open – Viva la community!

As a means to ensure the content presented in the breakout sessions at VMworld & VMworld Europe are cutting edge, real world, and appealing VMware allows customers, partners, industry analysts and VMware employees to participate in the content creation process. Frankly, I’m not sure any worldwide conference can compare to VMworld in terms of the amount of the influence their community directly has on determining the content presented at the shows.

“Viva la Community!”

Many in VMware responded to the April 12th call for papers. To those who submitted a session abstract, thank you! There are some truly great ones in consideration. The call for papers was only the start for the selection process.

If you plan to attend either the US or Europe event or have attended in previous years, it is time for you to cast your votes for the submissions that will comprise the breakout session catalog this fall. We need help whittling 1,1664 submissions down to approximately 170 unique sessions for the US and roughly 130 for Europe.

Don’t Dawdle. Don’t Hesitate. Don’t wait, procrastinate, stall or delay…
cast your votes today!

Note: If you don’t have a VMworld account, it appears you can create a one and complete the process at a later time in order to cast your votes today.

The Submissions from NetApp

When you vote I’d ask you to consider the submissions from NetApp and a number of our partners. Our engineering teams along with the teams of our key partners, like VMware, Cisco, and more, have some great solutions comprised of technical advancements to share with you. These sessions will literally change your understanding and view of the capabilities a storage platform can deliver to scale, accelerate, integrate, and liberate data center virtualization and cloud computing.

(Note: Table contents updated on 5/13)

Session ID

Title

1361

PowerCLI 101

1427

Battle of the Storage Experts

1623

Storage Superheavy Weight Smackdown 2011

1948

Architecting a 50,000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View

2031

Understanding How Storage Design Has a Big Impact on Your VDI

2209

Understanding How Storage Design has a Big Impact on Your VDI (EU)

2333

VDI – Answers to the Questions you Wish You Asked

2422

Reservation and Scheduling for Real-World Cloud Environments

2424

Affordable, Rapid DR Using Net2vault Cloud NetApp and VMWare SRM (NOT a NetApp employee but NetApp related)

2481

A Multi-Vendor Panel: “What Does Storage of the Future Look Like?”

2827

Case Study: SymDemo: How Symantec Learned to Love the Cloud and Saved $39 Million In the Process

2829

Extending the VMware Infrastructure: The Future of NetApp Integrations

2838

Delivering Multi-tiered “Storage as a Service” for Private, Hybrid, and Public Clouds

2842

Becoming a Hybrid Cloud Service Provider: How PeakColo Used VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Connector to Increase Revenue and Improve Margins

2851

vMotion Anywhere- Optimizing Application Availability with VMware vMotion

2853

Building Disaster-Proof VDI Environments: Restoring Customer Service and Employees Productivity When It Matters Most

2855

NetApp Introduces “Cloud-Mode” Storage

2857

Redefining Datacenter Boundaries: Spanning a Datacenter Across a Metropolis

2859

VM Misalignment: Why It Really Matters, What It Is Costing You Right Now, and How To Fix It

2863

How to Use Distance to Your Advantage to Create a Unified Data Protection Strategy

2867

VDI User Experience: The Secret Portal of Productivity

2870

Where Did All My Replicas Go?! Managing End-to-End Replication for DR and Backup in One Framework

2877

Successfully Configuring Site Recovery Manager 5

2880

Optimizing Virtual Desktop Environments: How Storage Efficiency Will Improve Performance and Save Money

2888

Optimizing Storage for Zimbra

2890

Knowing What Is Happening: Managing Dynamic Services in the Private Cloud

2978

Deploying Robust, Cost-Effective Storage Infrastructure in Distributed Environments Using Storage Virtual Appliances

2981

Windows 7 Migration Strategies for Virtualized End-User Computing Infrastructures

2985

Case Study: Delivering Phenomenal Clinical Patient Care With VMware View. How One CIO Put IT at the Center of Healthcare Innovation

2997

Virtual Disk Alignment: The Small Detail That Makes a Huge Difference in VMware vSphere Storage Performance

3060

One Year In: Results from the Siemens AG Private Cloud Implementation and Plans for the Future

3123

Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenDesktop on VMware vSphere

3142

Capacity Planning in a Shared Infrastructure

3169

Case Study: American Greetings Says Thanks a Half-Million

3220

Desktop as a Service with vCloud Director

3223

Storage as a Service with vCloud Director

3225

Storage Best Practices for vCloud Director

3233

“Get This Monkey Off My Back”: Automating Storage Provisioning and Protection with Storage Service Catalogs and vCloud Director

3279

Accelerating the Enterprise Journey to the Cloud

3290

Proven Strategies and Best Practices for Building Private Clouds to Run Tier1 Apps

Wrapping Up This Post

Thank you for participating in the VMworld session selection process, we truly appreciate it. I’d also like to give another shout out to the Virtualization Technical Marketing Team and our Technical Alliance Manager, Jim Weingarten. If it wasn’t for their tireless efforts creating drafts, editing and submitting the sessions, we wouldn’t be able to offer this content for your consideration.


Vaughn is a VP of Systems Engineering at VAST Data. He helps organizations capitalize on what’s possible from VAST’s Universal Storage in a multitude of environments including A.I. & deep learning, data analytics, animation & VFX, media & broadcast, health & life sciences, data protection, etc. He spent 23 years in various leadership roles at Pure Storage and NetApp, and has been awarded a U.S. patent. Vaughn strives to simplify the technically complex and advocates thinking outside the box. You can find his perspective online at vaughnstewart.com and in print; he’s coauthored multiple books including “Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing“.

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