Calling all IT professionals! We know you want to transform your current IT, and you can discover how at the VMware vForum Montreal on April 21! Whether you’re just starting out or you already have an advanced deployment plan, we’ll help you navigate your cloud journey across cloud, virtualization and mobility. Definitely make sure to free up your schedule for this one-day event—it’s free!
In the morning, you’ll hear some of IT’s biggest names dole out actionable advice on how to deliver an effective cloud strategy. Listen to VMware CTO of the Americas, Chris Wolf, discuss four key priorities that drive today’s IT imperatives. Then stick around for IDC Canada’s very own Program VP, David Senf, who will share his vast experience in forecasting and tracking markets and competitors in the cloud, servers, storage, networking and security, software tools and virtualization. Rounding out our list of keynote speakers is Shawn Rosemarin, VMware Chief of Staff Systems Engineer, who’ll explain how VMware’s Software Defined Enterprise can help mature your organization from a “cost center” into a “valued service provider.”
After lunch, dive headfirst into your IT niche through a variety of expert-led breakout sessions focused on end-user computing (EUC), the hybrid cloud, management/vSAN and NSX. So heads up EUC enthusiasts, because there’s a whole room dedicated to your wants and needs! Here’s the lineup:
Breakout Sessions
- Embracing Consumerization: Building the Digital Workspace for the Mobile Cloud Era
- The rapid adoption of new modern applications (SaaS apps, mobile apps) coupled with the proliferation of powerful yet affordable mobile devices has introduced new challenges for IT. Employees work wherever and whenever, forcing IT to either ignore these trends at the peril of unintended security breaches or embrace a new way of working by leveraging a new management framework. To combat these challenges, VMware introduced VMware Workspace ONE, the simple and secure enterprise platform that delivers and manages any app on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. Join this session to see how Workspace ONE integrates identity management, real-time application delivery and enterprise mobility management, engages digital employees, reduces the threat of data leakage and modernizes traditional IT operations for the mobile-cloud era.
- New Trends in Managing Apps Across Desktop and Mobile Devices
- How well are you managing new and legacy apps across desktops and mobile devices? Traditional VDI provisioning tools are complex and time-consuming, and don’t offer cloud-like elasticity. Join us to learn how our latest tools do. VMware Horizon 7 re-imagines desktop and application virtualization, and App Volumes takes your desktop and application environments even further with unified application and user management.
- NVIDIA: Delivering Scalable, Graphics-rich Virtual Desktops with NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™, VMware Horizon® and vSphere® – Presented by Jeff Sporn
- Join this informative session to learn how NVIDIA GRID™ with VMware Horizon and vSphere gives power users and designers a graphics experience that’s equivalent to dedicated hardware, with the cost-effectiveness that true GPU hardware virtualization can provide. You’ll learn about key design considerations, best practices from deploying customers along with valuable resources to help you get started.
- The Latest in Enterprise Mobility to Transform your Business – Presented by Jean Francois Brisebois, Sales Technical Specialist
- Mobility remains a top strategic opportunity as organizations look to enable anytime-anywhere productivity for end users and transform business processes. Join VMware AirWatch to discover how embracing a mobile-only mindset is key to unlocking workforce efficiency and unifying security and management of device, apps and data. This presentation will be in French.
And if you’re looking to work directly with VMware solutions, then make sure to stop by one or a couple of the hands-on labs that are running throughout the afternoon. You’ll have experts on hand to answer questions and guide you through innovative applications.
Clock out at the end of the day in the Partner Pavilion, where you can network with your peers and sip on a much-deserved cocktail. And perhaps you could win some cool prizes like a parrot drone or tickets to Formula 1 Grand Prix! Don’t forget to check out the rest of the prizes you could win at the end of the day.
Register here for VMware vForum 2016 in Montreal on April 21.
