NVIDIA Webcast: What’s New with VMware Horizon 7.4 and the NVIDIA Virtual GPU March Release

Topic: The recent quarter has brought several new enhancements to virtual desktops and workstations powered by VMware Horizon and NVIDIA virtual GPU. This webinar will cover these new features including support for ultra high-end workstation performance for designers and engineers, enhanced productivity for the knowledge worker, and virtual GPU-enabled vSphere suspend and resume capability that helps optimize VDI environments at scale with minimal downtime. Sign up now to learn how real world customers are implementing these latest features to provide anytime, anywhere access to rich 3D applications, simplify IT administration, and cost-effectively scale VDI to more users.

All live attendees who opt-in to share their information with the Sponsor will be entered a drawing to win an NVIDIA® SHIELD™ TV Media Player.  Terms and Conditions.

Speakers: Luke Wignall, Sr. Manager - Performance Engineering, NVIDIA

Kiran Rao, Director Product Management and Strategy, VMware

Stephen Herzig, Director of Enterprise Systems, University Information Technology Services, University of Arkansas

Jon Kelley, Associate Director of Enterprise Innovation, University of Arkansas

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CT)

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eG Innovations Webcast: Four Best Practices for Delivering Exceptional User Experience in VMware Horizon VDI Environments

Topic: Ensuring exceptional user experience is critical in all VDI deployments because virtualized applications and desktops are highly performance-sensitive. Even a minor problem anywhere in the infrastructure can degrade user experience and, in turn, affect business productivity. When slowness is detected, the multitude of inter-dependent infrastructure and application elements required for VDI to function make it a challenge for administrators to identify and resolve problems quickly.

Join this VMUG webinar by Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, and learn about best practices and tips to build a robust performance and user experience management strategy for your VMware Horizon environment.

You will learn how to:
• Track all aspects of VDI User Experience – from user logon to application launch and session latency
• Monitor the performance of every session (PCoIP, Blast, RDP) and that of every layer and every tier of the VMware Horizon infrastructure
• Auto-baseline the infrastructure for proactive problem management
• Monitor VDI as a Service, not as individual silos; Use automated Root Cause Diagnosis for faster problem resolution
• Plan for capacity, using empirical data and insights, and right-size the VDI environment for maximum ROI

Deepen your understanding about ensuring a great user experience and achieving VDI performance success!

Speaker: Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO, eG Innovations

Wednesday, April 25, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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HPE Webcast: Multicloud Data Mobility Made Easy

Topic: You run your enterprise applications on VMware and are now ready to move to the cloud. The problem is, most legacy applications expect enterprise reliability and data services that are not readily available in the cloud. To make it worse, it is very difficult to move data between on-premises and cloud while a lack of visibility leads to shadow IT and spiraling costs. In this session, you will learn about HPE Cloud Volumes and how it makes your journey between VMware and the cloud a lot easier.

- Get the simplicity of native cloud storage with enterprise-grade reliability and features
- See across clouds and your data center and easily optimize costs and resource usage
- Demo: Moving data volumes from on-premises VMware to AWS or Azure (and back again if you need to) in just a few clicks


Speaker: Doug Ko, Storage Cloud Strategy & Market Development, HPE

Thursday, April 26, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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IBM Cloud Webcast: Top Ten Reasons to Run VMware on IBM Cloud

Topic: This session will provide a deep dive into the architecture and capabilities of VMware solutions running on IBM Cloud, along with other associated solutions that can be delivered across IBM’s global data centers, to provide a true hybrid cloud experience. We will provide an in-depth view of the offerings jointly developed by IBM and VMware, as well as associated solutions delivered by IBM. Key topics will include the IBM Cloud architecture, VMware infrastructure options, and solutions covering workload balancing, cloud-scaling and bursting, backup services, disaster recovery, and on-premise to cloud workload mobility.

Speaker: John Lindblom, IBM Cloud Offering Manager - VMware, IBM Cloud

Tuesday May 1, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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Druva Webcast: Get Ready with Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Today!

Topic: VMware has allowed businesses to store their applications and data anywhere in the world. However, with data more distributed than ever, many organizations still don’t have a comprehensive plan in place for what to do in case of natural disasters or ransomware. A rapid restore is critical to maintaining business continuity. Please join us for this interactive webinar to find out how VMware customers can use the public cloud as the easiest way to deliver comprehensive, cost-effective recovery that will allow you to bounce back in minutes.

We will discuss:
● How VMware and VMC enable mobile workloads
● The challenges of traditional DR with distributed workloads
● The advantages of cloud-native backup and DR
● Benefits of Druva's direct integration with VMware & VMC It's not a question of IF, but of WHEN. So get ready with Disaster Recovery in the Cloud today!

BONUS: All attendees will receive a white paper "Building a Disaster Recovery Plan for the Cloud Era" with best practices, tools and templates you can use to get started today!

Speaker: Curtis Preston, Chief Technical Architect, Druva

Wednesday May 2, 2018
1:00 - 2:00 PM (CT)

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Learning Studio Webcast: Leadership Lessons from Rock & Roll

Topic: What do Mick Jagger, The Beatles, Lady Gaga, Eric Clapton and Michael Jackson all have in common? They show extraordinary leadership skills and have used those assets to become successful beyond most conceivable expectations. So what is it that makes these individuals — and others icons of the music industry — as successful as they are? Raw talent? Innate business acumen? Marketing genius? Plain old hard work? The answer is many of those attributes and a few others that may surprise you. This fun, interactive, music-filled workshop will help learners understand how to use these strategies within their own leadership style.

Key Takeaways:
• Understand what leadership skills make individuals most effective in their work
• Know how to employ key leadership lessons in your career
• Understand how to lead people in order to elicit their best work for you and your organization

Speaker: Debra Zabloudil, President, CEO and Founder, Learning Studio

Monday, May 7, 2018
12:00-1:00 PM (CT)

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ClearSky Webcast: Three Steps to On-demand DR for ESX Workloads

Topic: Sponsored by Faction and ClearSky
It's no question, cloud migration and data access are hard, especially for VMware workloads. We are helping customers get their VMware workloads to the cloud, fully-protected and avail on demand. No more secondary data center, no more replication, and no egress fees. Join us and see how you can get started.

In this session, ClearSky Data and Faction will explore how customers are benefitting from deliver disaster recovery (DR) on demand with VMware, and eliminating their secondary data centers and the expenses they incur. Unlike other DR solutions, the combination of ClearSky’s hybrid cloud storage and Faction’s VMware-based Multi-Cloud Platform as a Service creates on-demand DR that delivers guaranteed performance, operational consistency and native VMware toolsets.


Speakers: Courtney Pallotta, VP of Marketing, ClearSky and Ryan Jarvis, Director of Techincal Alliances, Faction

Wednesday, May 22, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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Learning Studio Webcast: Mindfulness & Mayhem

Topic: “Happiness is an inside job.” — Sylvia Boorstein The world operates at a dizzying pace. Between work deadlines, the demands of home and family life, and the general stress of life and the external environment, things can start to seem overwhelming. This course will focus on mindfulness and emotional intelligence training, integrating deep personal development with best practices we’ve learned from individuals and teams creating positive change within organizations. What is mindfulness exactly? It is the moment-to-moment awareness of one's experience without judgment. In this sense, mindfulness is a state and not a trait. While it might be promoted by certain practices or activities, such as meditation, it is not equivalent to or synonymous with them. Among its theorized benefits are self-control, objectivity, affect tolerance, enhanced flexibility, improved concentration and mental clarity, emotional intelligence and the ability to relate to others and one's self with kindness, acceptance and compassion. Additionally, mindfulness is highly correlated to stress reduction, one of its most popular features for most interested individuals.
 

Key Takeaways:
• Identify the definition of mindfulness and what practices develop mindfulness.
• Identify at least four benefits of the effect of mindfulness and emotional intelligence on the workplace.
• Understand how to put mindfulness and emotional intelligence into your daily practice to live a more balanced, healthy and happy existence.

Speaker: Debra Zabloudil, President, CEO and Founder, Learning Studio

Monday, June 11, 2018
12:00-1:00 PM (CT)

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