VMware Explore 2023 is fast approaching and I’m sure you’re wondering what we have in store for you. The sheer breadth of our event content has evolved from last year and if you’re looking for the latest and greatest in networking and security, there are some sessions you must prioritize!
At VMware Explore you’ll learn how to develop your own strong ransomware defense in a world of advanced malware and lateral movement. We embrace the cloud operating model and enable you to see more and stop more with zero appliances, zero tickets, and zero trust. I know it sounds like a lot, but not to worry, we’ll give you a head start this year!
Now that you have a better understanding of the direction at VMware Explore 2023, these are the sessions and tutorials that you can’t miss.
Solution Keynote
Innovations to Accelerate Your Enterprise Cloud Transformation
Session ID: CEIK2755LV
Modern apps are driving the need to span infrastructure operations across multiple clouds. Yet implementing multi-cloud can be complex, costly – and even dangerously slow. Join us to see VMware’s latest cloud innovations designed to bridge the gap between developer needs and infrastructure responsiveness. We’ll introduce new cloud-agnostic solutions that consistently integrate infrastructure and security technologies across public, private, and local clouds to accelerate innovation and increase resiliency. In this session, you will learn strategies to: Optimize performance and lower costs with agile infrastructure Enable stronger ransomware defense with secure and resilient clouds Modernize your existing environment to take on disruptive technologies, such as GenAI.
Speaker(s):
- Chad Skipper, Global Security Technologist, VMware
- Krish Prasad, Senior Vice President/General Manager, VMware
- Anu Kirpekar, VP Engineering, VMware
- Umesh Mahajan, SVP/GM NSBU, VMware
- Kojo Inkumsah, SVP, Director Cloud Services, First Citizens Bank
Time: Tuesday, August 2nd, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
Top Explore 2023 Sessions
1. Accelerate your Multi-Cloud Journey with the latest NSX+ Innovations
Session ID: NSCB2088LV
Over a decade ago, VMware transformed networking with NSX network virtualization. We then transformed security with NSX micro-segmentation and advanced threat prevention to prevent lateral movement of threats and protect enterprises from sophisticated ransomware attacks. Furthermore, we redefined load balancing with auto-scale for rapid application deployment and scale-out.
Now, we are introducing Project NorthStar, the next chapter of NSX innovations to accelerate your hybrid multi-cloud journey. Join this session to learn how Project NorthStar delivers developer agility with a cloud operating model and consistent multi-cloud operations. With self-service and VPC-based multi-tenancy, infrastructure and app-dev teams can deploy applications securely at cloud speed.
Speaker(s):
- Umesh Mahajan, SVP/GM NSBU, VMware
Time: Wednesday, August 23rd, 10:15 am – 11:00 am PDT
2. Under the Hood: NSX+ Policy and Intelligence
Session ID: NSCB1913LV
80% of enterprises have a Private-Public Cloud Approach. They lack unified management, as well incomplete visibility, and slower threat detection and response. This session will cover how Project Northstar addresses those challenges with central management, multi-cloud Security & Connectivity (On-prem and VMC), end-to-end operations, multi-cloud traffic, and security visibility (on-Prem and VMC), and behavioral threat analytics.
Speaker(s):
- Dimitri Desmidt, Senior Technical Product Manager, VMware
- Kausum Kumar, Director, Product Management, VMware
Time: Wednesday, Aug 23rd, 9:00 am – 9:45 am
3. Deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer to Enhance Your VMware Stacks Now
Session ID: NSCB2148LV
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer enhances VMware stacks, including VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud, with application awareness for application deployment, management, and security.
Whether you use VMware stacks or individual products (such as VMware NSX, VMware vSphere, VMware Aria, or VMware Tanzu) among available offerings, NSX Advanced Load Balancer is designed to improve them through ease of deployment, automation, application performance, security, and operational efficiencies. Discover how NSX Advanced Load Balancer is integrated into other VMware solutions and what you can do to get those benefits today.
Speaker(s):
- Arif Altalib, Director, Product Management, VMware
- Lei Yang, Director of Product Marketing, VMware
- Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Senior Technical Product Line Manager, VMware
Time: Tuesday, Aug 22nd, 10:30 am – 11:15 am PDT
4. Bulletproof Your Network: 4 Steps and Best Practices to Ransomware Defense
Session ID: NSCB2730LV
In an era plagued by rising ransomware attacks, protecting your network has become a paramount concern. But securing the perimeter of your network isn’t enough as attackers might already be inside your network. Join us for an engaging session on VMware NSX security where you will discover how to bulletproof your network against these attacks and prevent lateral movement of threats.
We will discuss a four-step framework along with best practices that can fortify your lateral security defenses and safeguard your organizations against these attacks. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower yourself with the knowledge and strategies needed to defend your network against evolving cyber threats.
Speaker(s):
- Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Director, Technical Product Management, VMware
- Bhanu Vemula, Director, Product Marketing, VMware
Time: Tuesday, Aug 22nd, 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm PDT
5. Deploying at Cloud Speed: 7 Networking and Security Principles
Session ID: NSCB2382LV
Innovations in application architectures have transformed the way apps are designed and delivered. App and Infra teams want to deploy apps at cloud speed in private cloud or hybrid multi-cloud environments. However, the traditional approach involves a myriad of steps to set up the physical network infrastructure and can take weeks or months to deploy an app. Join us to learn 7 design principles that address these shortcomings, to deliver a cloud operating model and cloud speed for deploying apps.
Discover how the NSX+ full-stack platform delivers game-changing innovations in network virtualization, distributed security, and scale-out load balancing to transform private and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, enabling self-service, multi-tenancy, defense-in-depth security, and app elasticity.
Speaker(s):
- Prashant Gandhi, VP Product Management, VMware
- Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO, NSBU, VMware
Time: Wednesday, Aug 23rd, 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT
Top Explore 2023 Tutorials
1. NSX Mindset: The Architect’s Forum Part 1
Session ID: NSCT2793LV
How do you know when your organization has been attacked? Worse yet, if you realize you have been attacked how do you respond? This session will introduce attendees to an organization that has experienced an attack and subsequently has decided to use the breach as a catalyst to redesign a new and more secure multi-cloud infrastructure. The two-part Security Mindset sessions offer attendees an opportunity to see how a cross-functional architecture team comes together to design a next-generation multi-cloud data center.
This first session will cover the details of the breach and the corresponding business objectives that have been defined to help the organization transition to a more modern data center. The session will continue into the conceptual design of an internal firewall solution with intrusion detection and intrusion prevention to control lateral movement. Additionally, the network security team will look at what design changes can be made to enhance the security posture of the environment against unknown threats while the application delivery team introduces design decisions that can create security enforcement in front of our critical applications.
Speaker(s):
- Chris McCain, Technologist Director, VMware
- Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Director, Technical Product Management, VMware
- Paul Mancuso, Technologist Director, VMware
- Puneet Chawla, Networking and Security Technologist, VMware
- Nathan McMahon, Technologist, VMware
Time: Monday, Aug 21st, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PDT
2. NSX Security Mindset: The Architect’s Forum Part 2
Session ID: NSCT2794LV
In this second session, our team of architects will continue to showcase how a multi-cloud data center gets designed with security as a core focus. The second part of the Security Mindset event will focus on network design and the integration of multiple public cloud environments into an on-prem private cloud. The network architect will show how to design a secure physical network with network virtualization as the foundation for modernized, automated data center networking while the cloud architects detail how to secure the hypervisor and how to make decisions regarding migrating vSphere workloads into a VMware cloud based-on expressed business requirements for public cloud workloads.
Speaker(s):
- Puneet Chawla, Networking and Security Senior Technologist, VMware
- Paul Mancuso, Technologist Director, VMware
- Chris McCain, Technologist Director, VMware
- Chad Skipper, Global Security Technologist, VMware
- Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Director, Technical Product Management, VMware
- Nathan McMahon, Technologist, VMware
- Bob Plankers, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Time: Monday, Aug 21st, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PDT
3. NSX Design: Use-Case-Based Architectures for Practical Deployments
Session ID: NSCT1458LV
Network and security virtualization is the key to accomplishing the cloud dream of agile, elastic, and on-demand infrastructure. The most prominent organizations in the world adopted NSX as a core building block to implement their cloud platform. We will cover design choices based on customers’ use cases and requirements.
Use cases will include private cloud scaling and performance, security as a service, multi-tenancy, VDI, and remote locations. This topic is vast, but we will provide a taste of the potentiality of NSX based on our experience working with small and large customers around the globe. We will first focus on building the infrastructure platform based on non-functional requirements such as high availability, scalability, and performance, then on logical design and advanced use cases.
Speaker(s):
- Luca Camarda, Senior Technical Product Manager, VMware
- Nimish Desai, Senior Director, VMware
Time: Monday, Aug 21st, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm PDT
Join us at VMware Explore 2023
These five sessions are only just the start of it too. There are lots of other valuable sessions you won’t want to miss that cover all sorts of topics, from strengthening your ransomware defense to scaling your multi-cloud security with VMware.
Even if you can’t make it to an in-person event, we’re also offering on-demand content and replays from the sessions. Either way, you won’t want to miss out on the sessions, communities, and experiences at VMware Explore 2023.
