VMware Webcast: Run Kubernetes in Production on vSphere with PKS

Topic: One of the fastest way to take an application from concept to production is to have a consistent, reliable container platform that helps developers ship software faster and IT pros streamline operations. VMware and Pivotal bring our combined expertise to deliver a comprehensive container solution with Pivotal Container Service. Join this session to learn more about PKS, and how it dramatically simplify management of Kubernetes clusters, helping enterprises deploy containers on vSphere addressing day 2 operational challenges like networking, storage, security, monitoring, logging and troubleshooting.

Speaker: Art Fewell, Senior Technical Product Manager, VMware

Art Fewell is a Senior Technical Product Manager in VMware's Cloud Native Applications division focused on Kubernetes and Pivotal Container Service. Previously, Art has worked in the networking industry for over 15 years -- mostly as an engineer -- at such companies as SBC Communications, Nortel, Cisco and Dell.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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Cohesity Webcast: Making Application Mobility for Test/Dev Across VMware Infrastructure and Public Clouds a Reality

Topic: Enterprise organization that in the process of transforming their private VMware clouds into hybrid clouds are often presented with scenarios for making on-premises virtual machine, applications, and data readily usable in public clouds. Traditionally, achieving such tasks is not easy due to the migration and conversion of virtual machine and how it may impact application and data stored within them. These challenges are further magnified when having to guarantee that the necessary migrations and conversion functions will be performed without making any significant changes or modifications to the virtual machines that can impact the applications and data stored within the virtual machines.

Good news- Cohesity has introduce a new feature to their DataPlatform called CloudSpin. CloudSpin introduces a new capability which accelerates your test/dev initiatives in the cloud. With CloudSpin you can:
• Eliminate expensive copies of data: You don’t have to make multiple copies of data to enable your application development teams. Developers can utilize on-premises backup data in the cloud with CloudSpin.
• Convert on-premises VMs to appropriate cloud formats: Format issues across on-premises and the cloud impede true application mobility. Making this process easy and seamless is where CloudSpin shines.
• Provision data for test/dev in the cloud: Spinning VMs up instantly in the cloud is a key requirement for more agile test/dev. Once the test/dev process in the cloud is done, the VM can be brought down. CloudSpin makes this very easy to do based on idle backup data from on-premises.
• Consistent manageability: Having a consistent management approach to manage both on-premises and cloud backup simplifies administration and reduces TCO. Cohesity DataPlatform provides that across both on-premises and the public cloud.
Ensuring Application Test & Development in the Cloud is Protected Natively with Snapshot APIs

Speaker:
Rawlinson Rivera, Global Field Chief Technology Officer, Cohesity
 

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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IBM Cloud Webcast: Top 3 Misconceptions about Cloud-hosted VDI

Topic: Do you think Cloud-hosted VDI is inferior to a physical desktop due to the lack the computational power for Microsoft Windows 10, streaming video, or even 3D modeling software? Do you think Cloud-hosted VDI is too time-consuming to deploy and too complicated to manage? Do you think Cloud-hosted VDI is not for you because you have a diverse global workforce? If your answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, you should join us to debunk these myths from the past and see how you can leverage VMware Horizon Cloud on IBM Cloud to improve productivity, agility and cost for your organization.

Speaker:
Steve Huntington, Program Director, Offering Management - IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

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

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Western Digital Webcast: Accelerating Tier 1 Applications with All Flash vSAN Solutions

Topic: This session will discuss how to take full advantages of all-flash vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for accelerating tier-1 applications by examining in detail an all-flash vSAN solution built using dense and high-performance servers and Western Digital high performance but cost-effective NVMe and SAS SSDs. What results are available to demonstrate the feasibility of using all-flash vSAN run tier-1 applications? We shall examine extensive test results from our performance testing using SQL Server 2016. What are the tips and guidelines to configure vSAN, compute, storage and networking to accelerate tier-1 applications? We will share the configuration and optimization guidelines we compiled during our performance testing project. What are the TCO/TCA numbers for this all-flash solution in considering this as an alternative to traditional storage configurations? We shall be sharing some of the results available from our TCO Study using an all-flash all-NVMe vSAN solution.

Speakers:
John Nicholson, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Patric Chang, Senior Director, Western Digital  

Thursday, August 2, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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VMware Webcast: Transform Your Customer Support Experience

Topic: Experience Skyline, VMware’s innovative support technology. Skyline provides breakthrough visibility to proactively identify issues before they become problems. No more searching for the solution, recommendations to resolve potential issues are provided. Skyline discovers which systems could be impacted, reducing the effort needed determining the scope of the issue. When a problem occurs that requires a support request, troubleshooting and problem resolution are accelerated. Learn how VMware is delivering proactive support to customers around the world.

Speaker: Nick Fritsch, VMware

Nick is a Technical Marketing Manager within VMware Global Services. In this role, Nick is responsible for creating blog articles, whitepapers, videos as well as presenting at various community and industry events. Nick also collects feedback from customers and VMware field employees, providing that feedback to Product Management and R&D to help shape current and future solutions. Previously, Nick spent 3 years as a VMware Technical Account Manager helping enterprise customers maximize the value they invested in VMware products, solutions and services. You can follow Nick on twitter @nfritsch.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 PM (CT)

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NETSCOUT Webcast: VMware NSX with NETSCOUT - How to address the problem of Assuring Micro-Segmentation Security Controls and Application Service Performance in one Solution

Topic: Making the decision to evolve to the agile NSX SDDC environment as part of your Digital Transformation initiative brings its own challenges of security design and application deployment; and is not without risk. Which means that maintaining visibility to assure your business service and confirming security policies are working in this new virtual, secure world is critical to migration success. This session will focus on how NETSCOUT, an NSX Certified Partner in the visibility space, can bring continuous visibility and service assurance of your micro-segmented application, PLUS test your security policies are operating to make sure your critical applications work! Key takeaways from this session: • The challenges faced by IT, DevOPs and Security in the NSX SDDC

• How NETSCOUT Service Assurance and Security validation can be deployed in an NSX environment
• An example use case of application deployed in NSX being assessed by the NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform
Show how NETSCOUT provides visibility beyond just the SDDC in NSX and into the public cloud.

Speaker:
Ray Krug, Enterprise Solutions Architect, NETSCOUT

Thursday, August 16, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CT)

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