
Join OARnet and VMware on Wednesday, September 28 for an all-day complimentary event focused on virtualization technologies. Learn how you and your colleagues can use VMware to reduce operating costs, streamline IT management and apply best practices from Higher Education institutions, the K-12 community and the State of Ohio VMware users.
Date and time
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration
Please register by Monday, September 26, 2011.
Location
Columbus Convention Center
400 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Directions, parking and building maps
Visit www.columbusconventions.com.
Contact
For more information please contact:
Ann Zimmerman, OARnet
annz@oar.net
Vincent Santangelo, VMware
vsantangelo@vmware.com
Agenda
More information about each session is available here.
7:45 a.m. | Registration/Check-In/Breakfast | ||
8:30 a.m. | Welcome/Opening Remarks | ||
8:45 a.m. | Keynote: Tod Nielsen, VMware co-president | ||
10:00 a.m. |
Executive roadmap |
Virtualization 101 & VMware Professional Services Overview |
Building the Hybrid Ready Private Cloud |
10:55 a.m. |
Developing a Hybrid Cloud – Finding Synergies in Government and Education |
Build Next Generation Cloud Applications with VMware Fabric |
Transitioning to ESXi |
11:50 a.m. | Lunch | ||
12:50 p.m. |
Virtualizing K12 – Virtualizing Desktop Case Study |
Monitoring and Managing the Next Generation Applications |
Managing a Highly Available Virtual Environment |
1:45 p.m. |
State of Ohio Virtualization Customer Case Study |
Strategies for Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications |
Security Best Practices for Virtualized Environments (both VDI and ESX) |
2:50 p.m. |
Cost Effective Mail and Collaboration Solutions: On Premises and In the Cloud |
Higher Education Virtualization – Desktop Virtualization Customer Case Study |
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3:45 p.m. |
Fresh from VMworld: VMware Roadmap |
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5:00 p.m. | Program concludes |

