Agenda Tracks:

G
General Development

L
Executive / Leadership

T
Technical

D
Application Development

L1 - Executive Roadmap
Bob Good, Director, VMware

Description Executive review of VMware's Technology Roadmap

G1 - Virtualization 101 & VMware Professional Services Overview
Mark Richards, Systems Engineer, VMware and Matt Honigford, Sales Account Manager, VMware

Description: Improve the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications through virtualization. Also provides an overview of VMware's Professional Services capabilities.

T1 - Building the Hybrid Ready Private Cloud
Dan Dulick, Manager Systems Engineer, VMware

Description Provision public cloud resources or securely extend your internal virtualized infrastructure into the public cloud with VMware.

L2 - Developing a Hybrid Cloud - Finding Synergies in Government and Education
Bob Good, Director, VMware

Description Leverage secure hybrid cloud resources with confidence while providing choice and flexibility, ensuring interoperability and portability of workloads between cloud environments.

D1 - Build Next Generation Cloud Applications with VMware Fabric
Phil Richards, Enterprise Account Manager, Spring

Description Phil Richards, Enterprise Account Manager, Spring Description Learn how organizations are building next generation, cloud based applications as we talk about VMware's vFabric cloud application platform and how organizations are leveraging it to solve their hardest application problems.

T2 - Transitioning to ESXi
Mark Richards, Systems Engineer, VMware

Description Like its predecessor ESX, ESXi is a "bare-metal" hypervisor, meaning it installs directly on top of the physical server and partitions it into multiple virtual machines that can run simultaneously. Best practices associated with the ESX to ESXi transition will be shared.

L3 - K12 Virtualization - Desktop Virtualization Customer Case Study

D2 - Monitoring and Managing the Next Generation Applications
Phil Richards, Enterprise Account Manager, Spring

T3 - Managing a Highly Available Virtual Environment
David Koch, Enterprise Management Product Specialist, VMware

L4 - State of Ohio Virtualization Customer Case Study

T4 - Strategies for Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications
Jeff Szastak, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware

Description Provide simple availability for Exchange, consolidate your databases, accelerate the lifecycle of your business apps, provision BI On-Demand.

T5 - Security Best Practices for Virtualized Environments (both VDI and ESX)
Mark Richards, Systems Engineer, VMware and Josh Spencer, Systems Engineer, VMware

L5 - Cost Effective Mail and Collaboration Solutions: On Premises and in the Cloud
Neil Ringers, Senior Manager, Zimbra

Description VMware Zimbra is an enterprise-class, open source email, calendar and collaboration platform.

L6 - Higher Education Virtualization –
Desktop Virtualization Customer Case Study
Josh Spencer, Systems Engineer, VMware with OARnet Higher Education member

G2 - Fresh from VMworld: VMware Roadmap
Bob Good, Director, VMware, Dan Dulick, Manager Systems Engineer, VMware and Mark Richards, Systems Engineer, VMware.

Description Review of VMware's current technology roadmap as well as recent VMworld annoucements.