VMworld 2014 (EMEA) – TAM Customer Central
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The TAM team is pleased to provide you access to VMworld 2014 TAM Customer Central. This exclusive TAM Customer-Only area is designed to ensure you have the best possible experience.
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Please note: registration for TCC has been closed. We have processed the registration requests for these meetings on a first-come-first-serve basis and sent out invitations directly to the attendees. Please make sure to accept or decline these invites! Otherwise your seat will be given to the next person on the waiting list. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!
TAM Customer Central is located in the Fira de Barcelona 8.0, designed to ensure that TAM customers have the best possible experience from Tuesday – Thursday during the conference. They have exclusive access to VMware product managers and experts, in-depth technical Deep Dives and discussions, product road maps, technical previews, demos and more.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2014: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, October 15, 2014: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Thursday, October 16, 2014: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
There will be a TAM customer reception on Tuesday, October 14th from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at CC5 Garden area (click map to zoom in). Please follow this link to sign-up and receive an invite. If you signed up for this event as part of the TCC registration, you should have received an invite by now.
Address
Fira Barcelona Gran Via
North Entrance – Hall 8
Carrer del Foc 30
08038 Barcelona
Join your industry peers and industry experts for exciting discussions and meetings!
TAM Customer Central Map
TAM Customer central will be located next to the registration area in Fira de Barcelona 8.0. On the map below, it is “1” on the left-hand side:
We are looking forward to welcome you in TAM Customer Central!! Also make sure to follow @VMwareTAM on Twitter and we’ll keep you up to date on all of the week’s activities.
Currently confirmed topics:
| Topic ID |
Topic Description | Topic Details |
| 6 | VMware BC/DR Roadmap (Shobhan Lakkapragada) | Roadmap for VMware’s BC/DR strategy. It includes updates around VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCloud Air and others. |
| 13 | ESX 2016 Roadmap (Salil Suri) | 2016 Compute Product Roadmap |
| 7 | Software Defined Storage – What’s next? (Kiran Madnani) | Overview of VMware’s software defined storage roadmap. The meeting will also give customers an opportunity to provide feedback and influence the direction of the product. |
| 26 | Security and Microsegmentation with NSX (Srinivas Nimmagadda) | Technology overview of NSX Security including Distributed Firewall, Edge Firewall and Partner Firewall Solutions Cover Use cases enabled – Microsegmention/Private Cloud, w/ End Point, w/ PAN and Tenant-Segmentation use cases with NSX Security PCI Design Guidance Customer deployment scenario (either Private Cloud or Enterprise Micro-segmentation) |
| 8 | Next-gen Data Protection – Unifying Snapshots, Backup, and Replication (Daniel Miller) | VMware vision for the next evolution of data protection. By leveraging new & highly efficient snapshot and replication technologies, combined with automated tiering of data and policy based management, our goal is to provide end-to-end data protection for vSphere virtual machines. |
| 27 | NSX Network Services (Dimitri Desmidt) | Applications are today complex and require on the network side much more than switching and routing. Clouds should be able to host any applications, including your complex applications. NSX offers a wide range of network services, such as but not limited to firewalling, load balancing and VPN. In addition with its distributed model of network services NSX can scale to the most demanding applications and thus support your most complex and high-demanding applications. |
| 12 | vSphere Web Client Roadmap (Narayan Bharadwaj) | We have heard our users loud and clear feedback on the vSphere Web Client. At VMware we continue to focus hard on providing users with a functional and performant user interface. Join us in this session to learn about some of the recent improvements, tips and tricks to get the most out of the vSphere Web Client. |
| C2 | vCAC Overview and Roadmap (Banjot Chanana) | View Desktop Management through vCAC. There are many challenges related to Desktop management. 1. – Scalability: Provisioning and ongoing management of 1000s of 10,000s of desktops. 2. – Rate of Change: More frequent lifecycle actions or day 2 operations increases costs. 3. – Solution Complexity: Desktops contains more components to meet more user needs. Find out how vCAC overcomes those challenges and increases administrator efficiency and effectiveness with a seamless integration with Horizon View as well as other VDI solutions. |
| 20 | Beyond infrastructure: VMware’s Application Automation Offerings and Direction (Banjot Chanana) | Deep dives into how vCAC automation center capabilities and Application Services (formerly Application Director) can be used to automate delivery of not just simple machines but full multi-tier applications. If you are considering automated delivery of middleware servers, common development stacks (LAMP, Java), full applications or are moving towards the Dev ops style of continuous integration. Will also cover future direction with application automation and continuous integration for Dev ops. |
| 15 | SDDC and vCloud Suite roadmap (Fausto Ibarra) | This meeting will cover the roadmap for the Software-Defined Data Center and the vCloud Suite, including: SDDC vision, compute, storage, networking and management. |
| 24 | vCAC and NSX (Ray Budavari) | Will cover the self-service consumption of logical networking and security services provided through the integration of vCloud Automation Center and NSX vCAC. NSX allows users to create complete application templates, which combine compute, storage, networking and security services in a blueprint for on-demand deployment. The presenters will focus on the technical details of the integration, along with design considerations and deployment models from experience with some of VMware’s largest customers. A live demonstration will highlight new features introduced with the latest versions of vCAC and NSX. |
| 16 | Open discussion on monitoring application with vC Ops (Eran Carmel) | vC Ops is a great platform and with the right add-ons has the capability to provide insight to your critical applications health and performance. We will discuss the future plans of having built in application and in guest monitoring and discovery. We will later open the floor to hear what the customers are interested in seeing and feedback on the presented content. |
| C3 | NSX Platform Extensibility (Anirban Sengupta) | VMware NSX provides an extensible platform to build a data center that can incorporate market leading network and security services such as ADC, VXLAN Gateways, IDS/IPS, endpoint security and more. Learn about the principles and architecture of the NSX Extensibility framework that enables this capability. Also, gain an understanding of the main use cases of extending NSX with services from technology partners. |
| 30 | The future of how to downloading, installing, upgrading, and patching VMware’s products (Eddie Dinel) | Join us for an interactive discussion on how VMware’s products will be downloaded, installed, upgraded, and patched in the future. The Suite Install and Upgrade team is seeking customers who want to provide feedback and help shape the improvements and experience. You will be exposed to VMware’s Install and Upgrade strategy, get a early preview of the products, and participate in an active discussion on the user interface, features, functionality, and priorities. |
| 22 | vSphere Distributed Switch Best Practices for NSX (Francois Tallet) | VMware VDS enables centralized and consistent Virtual Network configuration of vSphere hypervisors. VDS is a foundational requirement for our customers Network and Security Virtualization journey with NSX. This topic outlines the design considerations and recommendations for Virtual Networking in a NSX deployment. We will covers Uplink Connectivity, Security, Quality of Service, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Scalability recommendations for NSX. |
| 2 | Data Center Facilities Management Through Virtualization (Anil Kapur/Anne Holler) | Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools monitor, measure, manage and/or control major data center assets and resources, including IT infrastructure (such as servers, storage or networking) and facilities infrastructure (such as power, cooling or physical space). We will focus on facilities infrastructure management as it relates to demand response to insufficient supplies of power, proactive VM placement in the face of infrastructure failures (e.g. cooling), and host power caps to optimize rack utilization, improve availability and save power. Attendees should have knowledge of pain points regarding facilities (power, temperature cooling) issues as it relates to their data center applications. |
| C1 | ESXi Install/Upgrade discussion and What’s next for Stateless ESXi & Host Profiles (Salil Suri) | Join us for an interactive discussion around ESXi install/upgrade with a focus on VUM & Image Builder roadmaps. We will also have a discussion around the Custom OEM / Driver RollUp ESXi ISO program with a view of taking your feedback back to the R&D teams and our IHV / OEM partners. Learn about these features and help shape the features for the VMware products in this area. |
| 3 | Network Aware DRS (Rean Griffith/Anil Kapur) | Abstract: The network is one critical and truly shared resource in a virtualized datacenter. As a result, considerations of network metrics can and should inform how the overall virtual datacenter is managed, e.g., avoiding host overload of physical NICs, ensuring that VMs get access to network bandwidth and are protected from noisy neighbors. In this session we describe key scenarios for Network-aware DRS, and get your inputs/feedback on how useful it can be for your workloads and your environments. Attendees should have knowledge of pain points regarding network performance as it relates to their data center applications.Who should attend: While open to all participants, network administrators and applications owners may be particularly well suited to engage in the conversation. |
| 11 | vSphere Platform Security Overview and Roadmap (Yuecel Karabulut) | The purpose of this session is to give an overview of vSphere platform security and get customer feedback on our multi-year platform security roadmap. We will also use the opportunity to discuss and validate the requirements on selected security features in detail. |
| 1 | Deploying high latency applications (Donna Reineck) | |
| 31 | Deep Dive into How vCenter Operations Simplifies NSX Operations (Vyenkatesh Deshpande) | vCenter Operations provides intelligent operations to virtual and physical infrastructure, operating systems and applications running in the datacenter by performing predictive health, risk and efficiency analysis. This operational intelligence is now extended to the virtual network infrastructure running on the NSX platform. You will learn about the following key capabilities of the NSX Management pack: 1) Single dashboard that provides the overall health of NSX environment 2) The ability to draw logical and physical topologies of the NSX objects 3) Object to object path that shows the correlation of the logical and physical components 4) Capacity and utilization of the NSX resources |
| 19 | Beyond infrastructure: VMware’s Application Automation Offerings and Direction (Jagannath Krishnan) | |
| 9 | What’s next for Stateless ESXi & Host Profiles (Salil Suri) | |
| 23 | NSX Routing Design Best Practices (Nimish Desai/Ben Basler) | Networking & Security remained the last bastion of hurdle realizing the benefits of SDDC until the advent of NSX architecture. NSX enables groundbreaking innovations, redefining the data center networking and security architecture. This reference design topic enables VMware TAM customers realizing fully automated, flexible and secure data centers with the design approaches utilizing virtualization of essential networking and security components over hardware agnostic IP transport. And how those design choices enables the on demand deployment of the multi-tiers application stack. The specific reference design covers three essential topics: 1) Properties of NSX components 2) Design consideration with NSX components such as distributed routing, distributed firewall, interaction with physical networking for routing and bridging 3) Orchestration/Automation using vCloud Automation Center with NSX |
| 35 | Introduction to VMware IT Business Management (Daria Ilic / Sean Howard) | Learn how VMware can help CIOs gain control of service performance, cost, and vendors to successfully run IT as a business. Discover how you can transform IT from a cost center to a strategic weapon. |
| 36 | Optimizing cost and of IT and cloud services (Kobi Katzir) | How much is the cloud costing you? If you’re a cloud customer, do you know which cloud resources your organization uses and how much you’re paying for each of them? If you’re a provider, do you have insight into how your IT expenses accrue so you can craft fees to cover them and implement management plans to control them? Do you have an ability to govern the quality of them? Many organizations don’t. But as the popularity of cloud computing grows, so does the importance of managing the cloud’s costs and quality We will discuss about best practices around cloud and data center costing and how to define a road map for an adoption of Cloud Business Management. |
| 18 | vCAC and View Integration (Long Wang) | View Desktop Management through vCAC. Similar to VMworld SF, but with more details and discussions.There are many challenges related to Desktop management. 1. Scalability: Provisioning and ongoing management of 1000s of 10,000s of desktops. 2. Rate of Change: More frequent lifecycle actions or day 2 operations increases costs. 3. Solution Complexity: Desktops contains more components to meet more user needs. Find out how vCAC overcomes those challenges and increases administrator efficiency and effectiveness with a seamless integration with Horizon View as well as other VDI solutions. |
| 32 | The real impact of SDDC on your TCO (Aernoud van de Graaff) | The meeting will cover topics such as: – How to determine the TCO of your Datacenter – How will the TCO change if you move to a SDDC – What are the relevant cost of moving to a SDDC The session will conclude with questions, discussions and some real life examples of TCO studies |
| 5 | SLA-Driven Automated Scaling of Database Resources (Anil Kapur/Xiaoyun Zhu) | Not all applications support or work well with horizontal scaling. For these applications, specifically databases, we provide vScaleDB, a technology that allows a virtualized application to meet its level objective (SLO) by automatically, vertically or horizontally scaling the resource allocation to the VMs that host the application. |
| 34 | How to respond to the “Bring Your Own Data Center” trend (Art de Blaauw) | Research has shown that business units do not always wait any more until their IT department is finally able to deliver infrastructure as a service, and buy it themselves directly. Business units can use their own virtual data center from the cloud: Bring Your Own Data Center (BYODC). They are increasingly turning to Amazon Web Services, Azure, vCloud Hybrid Service, and other public cloud platforms, to run their workloads. Most of the time starting with development and test workloads, but more and more also production workloads. This causes challenges for the IT department regarding security, management, compliance and costs. We will address the four common responses from IT departments to BYODC and how successful these responses are. |
| 33 | Delivering Business Benefit from EUC (Arron Lock) | Presentation about building EUC projects focussed on business value rather than upgrading or renewing an ageing technology. My presentation will cover: market trends in EUC, how to build a strategy, & aligning to IT & business value |
| 14 | vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Management (MHM) (Antoan Arnaudov/ Matt Dreyer) | Designing a modern virtual infrastructure brings numerous challenges with regards to mobility, security, interoperability and management. In such a complex environment there are different reasons for customers to end up with a heterogeneous hypervisors in their datacenters. Join us for an in-depth discussion on VMware’s future directions for the management of such environments with “VMware vCenter Server”. |
| 28 | Why Ops in DEVOPS Matter (Kevin Lees) | DevOps has become one of the most demanded use case architectures by VMware customers. While vCloud Suite and open standards such as OpenStack support DevOps initiatives, technology is not the only consideration – in fact it may be the easiest component of an overall solution. The people and process considerations for providing and supporting DevOps are equally if not more interesting. During this meeting we discuss those considerations and provides insight into approaches for addressing them as well as real-life examples from customers globally and VMware internally. |
| 29 | Enterprise Mobility – Beyond PIM (Charles Barratt) | We will be helping our customers understand the approach that AAS has been taking with our Enterprise and GAM customers in defining Enterprise Mobility projects and how and where the VMware EUC portfolio will align to that strategy.We wont be leading with technology, this will be a meeting focused on Business Challenges, Opportunities, Futures and VMware technology alignment. |
| Consolidated Topic | ||
| 39 | The new EVO family of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (Bryan Evans) | |
| 40 | What’s New and What’s Next in vCenter Orchestrator (vCO/vRO) – Savina Ilieva | Join us for an in-depth discussion and learn how stateless ESXi in combination with Host Profiles enables agility and elasticity in the Software Defined Data Center. We will focus on stateless ESXi architecture and design recommendations for overcoming existing availability and scalability constraints. Also, we will take a look into the technical futures of AutoDeploy and Host Profiles. The team will be collecting your feedback and improvement suggestions to help shape the future direction of these features. |
| 38 | Mobility Challenges and Futures with VMware EUC CTO, Kit Colbert | The next frontier of mobility – from behavioral analysis for the app ecosystem to geolocation on steroids – presents challenges as tough as the opportunities are expansive. What is the TCP/IP of the Internet of Things era? And how will we build it? Hyper-aware smartphones that know you are in the snack aisle are great for retailers, but how do we address the security implications? The industry is charting a strategic course, and there is an exciting opportunity for VMware to partner with you and provide the coordinates towards the solutions to mobility’s hardest problems. In this meeting, Kit Colbert, Chief Technology Officer for End-User Computing at VMware, will discuss the unsolved challenges in mobility, and the possibilities that will be unlocked when you go beyond thinking about delivering apps and data to your end-users to machine-to-machine connectivity. |
| T1/T2 | Hands-On Labs VIP Tour for TAM Customers | VMware Hands On Labs VIP Tour for TAM Customers :The VMware Hands-on Labs Tour for TAM Customers provide intimate access to VMware product experts in an engaging, hands-on instructional environment. This is a great opportunity to interact with the people who built the labs and know our products best. Get your questions answered and discuss solutions in a group setting.We have limited spots, so please register now to avail of your VIP invitation and see the Hands On Labs like never before! |