Name: 5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Modernizing Your Data Center for the Cloud
Start: 2021-02-18T18:00:00Z
End: 2021-02-18T18:00:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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With VMware, you have the freedom to build and deploy modern applications, from the data center to the cloud to the edge. Migrate seamlessly between environments and ensure that all data and applications remain secure and protected in any cloud.

Match your applications to the unique strengths of any environment. With the most hybrid cloud options—delivered with key partners like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud—you can access the power of leading hyperscale clouds within proven VMware infrastructure.

Operations leaders have fallen behind business leaders in adopting a DevOps culture.  Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are holding back Ops decision makers. Clarity is needed to define DevOps across the organization. For too long, infrastructure decision makers have defined DevOps based on their needs. There is a great opportunity to leverage DevOps practices as part of the firm’s infrastructure and operations. 

In late 2020, VMware commissioned Forrester consulting to conduct a custom study of 407 global IT, infrastructure, and cloud decision makers This webinar will explore how to overcome fear, uncertainty, and doubt and leverage DevOps best practices. Learn to empower your team to adopt a DevOps way of working and gain benefits from better systems security and availability, to faster time-to-delivery, and improved fulfillment of your business outcomes.

Join VMware’s Lefteris Marakas, Product Line Marketing Manager, and guest speaker Charles Betz, Principal Analyst at Forrester  as they share the study findings.  They will discuss:
- How to overcome barriers to adopting DevOps practices
- Ways to expand your use of DevOps practices
- How DevOps can help you achieve your business outcomes
 
In the meantime, check out the study and related infographic in the resources section.

Meet our presenters:
- Guest speaker Charles Betz, Charles is Forrester’s lead DevOps analyst serving infrastructure and operations professionals globally. In this role, he covers continuous deployment and release automation, incident management, and emerging topics such as containers and chaos engineering. He also covers the transformation of “traditional” IT operations organizations into next-generation digital service organizations.

- Lefteris Marakas is a Product Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. During his time in VMware he has been driving messaging and positioning for VMware's cloud automation services.

Overcome Fear And Uncertainty To Benefit From DevOps

Many IT teams are looking at consolidating or expanding in Co-location facilities due to increasing Data Center facility costs. At the same time, these teams may also be facing decreasing CapEx budgets for IT refresh projects. In this webinar, we will discuss how VMware Cloud on Dell EMC can provide customers a fully managed, modern-workload capable infrastructure, resident in one of CoreSite’s Co-location facilities without any CapEx spend.  
 
Meet the speakers:

- Wei Wang: Wei is the Director of Marketing for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. She is currently leading all go to market activities with regard to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, Hybrid Cloud operations and VMware Cloud Foundation Services within VMware.
 
- Brian Eichman: Brian is the Director of Solution Architecture & Product Development at CoreSite and previously was responsible for CoreSite’s corporate IT operations.

- Scott Stricker: Scott is the World-Wide Sales Director for VMware Cloud on DellEMC.  Prior to VMware Scott was VP of Sales for Datrium (later acquired by VMware).

Modernize Your IT Infrastructure Spend with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC & CoreSite

vRealize Automation is a modern infrastructure automation platform which helps you increase productivity and agility by reducing complexity and eliminate manual or semi-manual tasks. 

Our services allow you to easily set-up and manage a multicloud environment, provide self-service provisioning with consistent governance and compliance, deliver Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes management, and much more.  

In this session, we will discuss all the great new capabilities available in vRealize Automation. From integrations through extensibility to exciting new capabilities built directly into the already vast set of capabilities out of the box, these features make vRealize Automation the best infrastructure automation platform for every enterprise. 

We will conclude the webinar with a demo of the newest features to showcase their capabilities in real-time.

Meet our presenters:
- Alina Thylander is a Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. In this role, Alina drives messaging and positioning for vRealize Automation Cloud. She has held various sales enablement, business intelligence and marketing positions in Silicon Valley for the past decade, including most recently at Dell EMC and Ericsson.

- Karl Fultz Staff Technical Marketing Architect with the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware with 24 years of IT, technical consulting, and software vendor experience. He joined VMware in April 2011 as a Cloud Management Systems Engineer and is now focused on Cloud and Network automation. Prior to VMware, he worked at Symantec and as a Microsoft consultant on email, management, security, and compliance products. Additionally, Karl worked in IT departments for several fortune 500 organizations to architect and build large scale environments.

vRealize Automation: What’s New?

Join our experts for a session covering the latest release of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Our September release, announced at VMworld 2020, introduces new capabilities and enhanced functionality to deliver a true local cloud as-a-service to our enterprise customers.

Learn more about the latest release, including:
•	A new node type to support heavy memory intensive mission-critical workloads
•	HCX bulk workload migration for reduced operational complexity
•	Full end-to-end vRA, vROPS and TKG verification
•	Multi-cluster support for workload segmentation

What is VMware Cloud on Dell EMC?
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of enterprise-grade on-premises infrastructure, delivered as-a-service to data center and edge locations. This fully managed VMware service provides simple, secure, and scalable infrastructure for customer’s on-premises datacenter and edge locations.  This unique approach empowers you to focus on business innovation and differentiation, while VMware operates the entire infrastructure end-to-end.

What’s New in the Latest Release of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC?

Purchasing and managing physical hardware to address the ever-increasing volume of data and increased demands of the business can be a costly and cumbersome process. That’s why VMware has partnered with Faction Inc. to deliver their fully managed cloud-based storage solutions to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC customers.  Join us on December 3rd to learn more about this unique offering and how VMware Cloud on Dell EMC + Faction can simplify the deployment and management of storage-intensive workloads and applications.
 
Highlights:
  - Bring the cloud model to your data center and edge locations
  - Scale storage independent of compute and network resources
  - Lower egress costs
  - Enable business continuity and regulatory compliance
 
Agenda:
  - Overview of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC solution
  - Introduction to Faction and storage options they provide VMware Cloud on Dell EMC customers
  - Supporting storage-heavy workloads and applications with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC and Faction

Introducing Faction Storage Solutions for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

One of the most significant challenges that organizations face when modernizing how they deliver IT is change. Change introduces complexity, uncertainty, as well as a potential disruption to business operations. 
Organizations can mitigate the impact that change will have by enabling a consistent infrastructure and operational model across their technology landscape, making it easier to accelerate digital transformation by adopting new technologies and services. 
An important question that is top of mind for many of our customers is “How do we integrate new tools and resources with existing legacy systems?”

Introducing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is a fully managed VMware Cloud service that provides a simple, secure, and scalable infrastructure delivered as-a-Service to your on-premises datacenter or edge locations. It combines VMware’s industry-leading compute, storage, and networking software integrated with enterprise-class Dell EMC hardware. This unique approach empowers customers to focus on business innovation and differentiation, while VMware operates the entire infrastructure end-to-end. 

In this webinar, our experts will provide an overview of how to integrate VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with your existing data center, provide an overview of advanced customer scenarios, and demonstrate how to enable zero downtime live migration with vMotion from existing vSphere infrastructure.

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC: Technology Integration and Workload Migration

Whether you’re running IT operations in the cloud or on premises, issue avoidance, continuous optimization and integrated workflows are key to keeping your systems healthy and productive. With proactive intelligence from VMware, management and support are combined into an integrated experience that helps keep you out of harm’s way, and saves time and effort. You can be proactive and perform advanced troubleshooting in a single SaaS workflow without needing additional support.

By weaving Skyline and vRealize Operations Cloud data together we can expand issue detection, avoidance and self-serve to things we cannot check for separately.
Save more time by automating Skyline proactive remediations in vRealize Operations Cloud.
 
Join this interactive session to learn:
- How to proactively avoid issues before they occur
- Optimize productivity and troubleshoot in a single, integrated workflow
- Leverage a comprehensive suite of on-premises and cloud management and support tools with one subscription
 
 
Meet our presenters:
David Pham, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at VMware currently manages VMware’s vRealize Operations portfolio specializing in AI/ML-based optimization engines, HCI, vSAN, VCPP, and VMC solutions. With certifications from VCP, MCP, MCITP, MCTS and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, David’s expertise spans storage, security, and network visibility solutions in hybrid cloud infrastructures. Prior to VMware, David also led virtualization and cloud strategies for Gigamon, Ixia, Net Optics, HP and 3Com.
 
Kelcey Lemon is a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware, where his primary focus is VMware Skyline. Over the last 20 years, Kelcey has worked with software and hardware solution providers, training their technical specialists, enabling their sales teams, and helping them transform their business models to include SaaS-based delivery and cloud computing services to better serve their customers.

Proactive Intelligence for the Cloud: Integrating Management and Support

The power of SaltStack is now available in VMware vRealize Automation as a new component called vRealize Automation SaltStack Config. 
Join us as to get an overview and demo of what SaltStack Config brings to vRealize Automation, including:
 - State management
- Automated config drift remediation
- Software deployment and updates
- Compliance and secure configuration enforcement
- Patching and orchestrated OS app maintenance

Meet our presenters:
- Kendall Lovett, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware
- Vincent Riccio, Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

Introducing vRealize Automation SaltStack Config

As enterprises look to accelerate the pace of digital workspace transformation the need for users to connect to their applications from anywhere using any device has become critical. 

To help enterprise IT achieve this goal VMware SD-WAN™ and VMware Horizon deliver a consistent and reliable user experience to access Horizon VDI and applications hosted on Azure VMware Solution (AVS). 

Join us in this session to see how your organization can take advantage of these solutions to embark on this digital transformation journey and deliver a seamless end-user experience.

Meet our presenters:
- Gabe Knuth, Senior Product Line Manager – VMware Horizon 
- Jay Thontakudi, Senior Product Marketing Manager – VMware SD-WAN 
- Eric Cheung Young Sen, Partner Solution Architect – VMware SD-WAN
- Trevor Davis, Global Black Belt – Azure VMware Solution at Microsoft

Connect VDI users to VMware Horizon with Azure VMware Solution and VMware SD-WAN

If you work in IT delivery or support, either as a leader or practitioner, you’ll be familiar with a common dilemma. Should you focus on immediate business requirements, working around the limitations of your existing environment, or take time out to look at how the latest advances in technology and ideas can enable efficiency and effectiveness over the longer-term? 

Join this webinar with Freeform Dynamics, whose latest research highlights an area in which you might not have to make this kind of call. Feedback from 200 IT professionals suggests that adoption of self-service delivery, and the automation that enables it, can deliver short-term benefits and help to transform IT for the future. And the good news is that you may already have most of what’s required in place.

Meet our presenter: 
Tony Lock, Director of Engagement and Distinguished Analyst at Freeform Dynamics
Tony is an IT operations guru. As an ex-IT manager with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, his extensive vendor briefing agenda makes him one of the most well informed analysts in the industry, particularly on the diversity of solutions and approaches available to tackle key operational requirements. If you are a vendor talking about a new offering, be very careful about describing it to Tony as ‘unique’, because if it isn’t, he’ll probably know.

Self-Service IT Delivery: From opportunity to strategic imperative?

Purchasing and managing physical hardware to address the ever-increasing volume of data and increased demands of the business can be a costly and cumbersome process. That’s why VMware has partnered with Faction Inc. to deliver their fully managed cloud-based storage solutions to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC customers.  Join us on December 3rd to learn more about this unique offering and how VMware Cloud on Dell EMC + Faction can simplify the deployment and management of storage-intensive workloads and applications.
 
Highlights:
- Bring the cloud model to your data center and edge locations
- Scale storage independent of compute and network resources
- Lower egress costs
- Enable business continuity and regulatory compliance
 
Agenda:
- Overview of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC solution
- Introduction to Faction and storage options they provide VMware Cloud on Dell EMC customers
- Supporting storage-heavy workloads and applications with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC and Faction
 
Meet our presenters:
Aaron Brongersma, Senior Solutions Architect – VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Aaron has been instrumental in working closely with customers through their concerns to help close several of the first VMware Cloud on Dell EMC deals. His technical knowledge and understanding of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC makes him a well-suited speaker for this webinar.  
 
Luke Norris, Founder, Executive Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer. Luke founded the company in 2006 and has been the driving force behind Faction’s expansion from a hosted private cloud provider to a leader in multi-cloud services. In May 2019, Luke’s role transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer.

How do you scale your network team?  
One way to scale your teams is with better tools that take a lot of the manual tasks of network verification and dynamically perform them.  

VMware vRealize Network Insight Assurance and Verification is a new capability that helps you monitor networks using intent-based networking principles. 

Assurance and Verification builds a digital twin model of the network and takes the current state of the network and verifies that the current state matches the business intent for the network. 

Join the webinar to learn more about this exciting new capability.

Meet our presenters:
- Matt Just is a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. He is responsible for supporting technical marketing and product development of VMware vRealize Network Insight. Matt has over 20 years experience in data center networking & security design and expert knowledge in routing and switching technologies. Follow Matt on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mattjust/ or on Twitter: @H1_TEK_MATT
 
- Sehjung Hah is a Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit working on vRealize Network Insight Cloud. Sehjung has worked in the networking industry for 23 years in various roles in product marketing, product management, technical marketing, engineering, technical support, sales enablement. On sunny days, he enjoys biking and hiking. Connect with Sehjung via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehjunghah

Intent-Based Networking Assurance and Verification

As the DevOps movement is maturing the “Ops” side of the house is getting more involved and invested.

In this discussion with James Governor (@monkchips) from Redmonk, we will explore how DevOps practices are finding their way in the enterprise IT departments and what aspects are more relevant for the infrastructure and operations (I&O) practitioners. 

Chris McClanahan (@virtual_crazo) from the VMware automation team will demo how vRealize Automation Cloud can help you adopt DevOps in a IT-friendly way.

Meet our presenters:
James Governor is a Principal Analyst and Co-founder at RedMonk. Based in London, he advises enterprises, startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. 
Technical Marketing Cloud Management Twitter: @virtual_crazo mcclanahanc@vmware.com Chris McClanahan is a Senior Technical Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit where he focus on innovative solutions to help operationalize the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC).

Evolve your IT Operating Model with DevOps

SAP is a mission critical application workload that is pervasive across many industries including:  Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Highly regulated Industries. Many of these SAP workloads are virtualized across multinational companies’ vast geographical facilities. 

The majority of SAP customers rely on VMware as the underlying virtualization platform for these enterprise workloads, within their on-premise datacenter. As companies modernize and automate their operations, they will transform their business using hybrid cloud architectures.  

Today, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is the only VMware-based cloud providing this automated delivery of a secure single-tenant SAP certified infrastructure with full customer access control.

Meet our presenter:
Ed Whitty is Director for the VMware - IBM Joint Innovation Lab, responsible for leading engineering teams across VMware and IBM to build innovative & differentiated offerings for both companies to bring to market.  Ed was previously in the Office of the CTO, where he led digital transformation efforts for VMware’s strategic customers. He is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years’ experience at Intel, Qualcomm, and as CEO of a Cloud Services startup.

Transforming Mission Critical Workloads with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

One of the greatest challenges of delivering service level expectations in the modern cloud era is the ability to maintain manageability and control of a broad range of applications and the multi-cloud resources they consume. 

Traditionally, enterprises have relied on management tools that use a series of static policies and artificial boundaries to tune and operate infrastructure and manage apps throughout their lifecycle. However, in an agile, multi-cloud world, tradition can be increasingly complex and a hinderance to innovation. 

Harnessing the power of machine learning (ML), VMware vRealize AI Cloud analyzes the environment’s unique operational characteristics then continuously optimizes it in line with stated service level objectives. 

Join us as we explore how vRealize AI incorporates machine learning into VMware's cloud management portfolio to deliver the next-generation self-driving datacenter.

Meet our presenter:
Jad El-Zein is a Technology Director in VMware's Cloud Management (CMBU) Office of the CTO. In this role, Jad focuses on driving CMBU's product vision and strategy, the advancement of machine learning and emerging technologies, and leads the Advanced Development Team within the Office of the CTO.

vRealize AI Cloud: Driver of the Self-Driving Datacenter

vRealize Automation is a modern infrastructure automation platform which helps you increase productivity and agility by reducing complexity and eliminate manual or semi-manual tasks. Our services allow you to easily set-up and manage a multicloud environment, provide self-service provisioning with consistent governance and compliance, deliver Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes management, and much more.  

In this session, we will discuss all the great new capabilities available in vRealize Automation. From integrations through extensibility to exciting new capabilities built directly into the already vast set of capabilities out of the box, these features make vRealize Automation the best infrastructure automation platform for every enterprise. 

We will conclude the webinar with a demo of the newest features to showcase their capabilities in real-time.

Meet our presenters:
Alina Thylander is a Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. In this role, Alina drives messaging and positioning for vRealize Automation Cloud. She has held various sales enablement, business intelligence and marketing positions in Silicon Valley for the past decade, including most recently at Dell EMC and Ericsson.

Karl Fultz Staff Technical Marketing Architect with the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware with 24 years of IT, technical consulting, and software vendor experience.   He joined VMware in April 2011 as a Cloud Management Systems Engineer and is now focused on Cloud and Network automation.  Prior to VMware, he worked at Symantec and as a Microsoft consultant on email, management, security, and compliance products.  Additionally, Karl worked in IT departments for several fortune 500 organizations to architect and build large scale environments.

Fortifying your frontline is vital to keeping your business safe from emerging cyber threats. Learn about the importance of cybersecurity awareness in the workplace and how training can turn your weakest link into your strongest asset.  See how VMware Learning Platform helps with these challenges both internally and for customers. 
 
Benefit Statement
- Learn about best practices for Learning Environments
- Understand how to customize and deliver Cybersecurity Training at Scale
- Enable your remote workers to protect themselves

Meet our presenter:
Brandon Noeldner – Staff Solutions Architect – VMware Learning Platform

How to Deliver Hands-On Cybersecurity Training Virtually

Refreshing and modernizing technology platforms is a challenging but routine part of data center management. Many organizations have begun to move as many resources as possible to the public cloud to modernize their IT operations. But not all workloads lend themselves to cloud deployment. The cloud journey can include major potholes.
 
In this webinar, we will explore critical pitfalls to avoid when updating your data center and introduce a new concept to help your organization harness the benefits of the public cloud model while retaining security and control.
 
Meet our presenters:
- Anthony Larijani is a seller-turned-marketer passionate about helping organizations adopt new technologies to achieve strategic business outcomes. He is currently a Product Marketing Manager at VMware, responsible for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC and Hybrid Cloud Solutions.

- Ken Smith is a veteran of Silicon Valley-based high-tech data and voice communications industries. Currently serving as a Product Marketing Manager supporting VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, Ken’s areas of expertise include Layer 2-4 switching, routing, data center virtualization, and cloud.

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