VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas was nothing short of exhilarating, bringing together IT practitioners and developers from across the globe for a deep dive into the latest tech innovations and trends. With a diverse array of sessions spread across five tracks, attendees had the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology and expert-led sessions in an immersive environment.
We know it was impossible to catch every insightful session, so we’ve done the legwork for you. Here, we’ve rounded up the most popular session from each of our five event tracks.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your expertise or explore new horizons, you can find all of this and more in our on-demand video library. Dive in and experience the highlights of VMware Explore 2024 at your own pace, from the comfort of your home or office.
Or, if you’re looking for the highlights, look no further than these trending sessions.
Cloud Infrastructure: 3 Transformations for the Smarter Way to Cloud [VCFB1948LV]
The can’t-miss deeper dive on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) from the General Session. Join Krish Prasad, Anu Kirpekar and William Lam to learn how the way we build, deploy and use IT is being transformed.
NVIDIA also joins the stage to reveal more about our deep AI partnership. Featuring an expansive demo, first reveal news across compute, storage, and networking, along with clarity and insights from those defining our strategic direction and roadmap.
Innovation: Private AI and Advanced Services on VCF: What’s Next? [INVB1960LV]
Dive into what the future holds for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Watch this riveting session to learn how the VCF platform will leverage AI to streamline challenges, such as product support and troubleshooting, and how VCF will enable your AI applications and models to be operated more securely and efficiently.
Innovative platform features are also shared to showcase how VCF will allow you to run a variety of PaaS and data services.
And, stick around to see first-ever demos of new and emerging capabilities, and how we work collaboratively with our ecosystem partners and customers to bring compelling new solutions to market.
Modern Applications: Accelerate Your App Delivery with VMware Tanzu Platform [TANB1129LV]
Learn about new innovations from VMware Tanzu Platform and see an end-to-end demo of Tanzu Platform where we’ll follow an app from code to production and beyond.
You’ll see how Tanzu Platform’s golden commands make it simple for developers to deploy apps to Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes, and how Tanzu Platform makes Day 2 operations secure and efficient with unique abstractions like application spaces and app-to-infrastructure visibility. We’ll also highlight how Tanzu Platform improves resiliency and compliance for Spring apps and complements VMware Cloud Foundation-based environments.
Get an up-close look at how you can accelerate app delivery so that developers can focus on code instead of infrastructure, operators can securely scale without sacrificing weekends, and your business can innovate faster no matter what tech trends or market changes come your way.
Networking, Security, & Load Balancing: Innovations in Ransomware Prevention and Cloud-Speed Application Delivery with VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer [ANSP2267LV]
Distributed, software-defined security and load balancing are critical to rapidly deploy applications and defend against malware and ransomware in a secure and resilient VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud. VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer are plug-and-play network services for VMware Cloud Foundation, delivering operational simplicity with unmatched visibility and application analytics to cloud and security admins.
vDefend protects your applications and data from unrelenting ransomware attacks and accelerates your journey to zero trust with multi-layer, defense-in-depth security. GenAI co-pilots with vDefend to revolutionize threat detection and transforms SOC operations by alleviating alert fatigue.
Avi Load Balancer ensures app delivery at cloud speed with an elastic load balancer, container ingress and web application firewall. Join this session to learn about new innovations and strategic directions for vDefend and Avi Load Balancer to drastically buy-down cyber risk and accelerate application delivery.
Software-Defined Edge: When the Edge Becomes the Mainstream – What’s Next in Software-Defined Edge AI? [SDEP2199LV]
Edge use cases are no longer fringe. Organizations are adopting AI at the edge to harness reams of data to make better decisions and deliver better experiences. Enterprises are managing hundreds and thousands of OT devices, while communication service providers are enhancing their offerings with fixed wireless access and catalyzing innovation via open APIs.
So, what infrastructure is necessary to make it all work? The answer is software-defined edge. Software-defined edge is at the intersection of compute, security, programmability and connectivity. As edge workloads become essential to business, ensuring they have reliable performance and availability is critical.
Sanjay Uppal’s deep dive will help you become an expert on how we provide the complete software-defined edge stack our customers and partners rely on for today and tomorrow’s IT and OT success.
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