As a means to ensure the content presented in the breakout sessions at VMworld & VMworld Europe are cutting edge, real world, and appealing VMware allows customers, partners, industry analysts and VMware employees to participate in the content creation process. Frankly, I’m not sure any worldwide conference can compare to VMworld in terms of the amount of the influence their community directly has on determining the content presented at the shows.
“Viva la Community!”
Many in VMware responded to the April 12th call for papers. To those who submitted a session abstract, thank you! There are some truly great ones in consideration. The call for papers was only the start for the selection process.
If you plan to attend either the US or Europe event or have attended in previous years, it is time for you to cast your votes for the submissions that will comprise the breakout session catalog this fall. We need help whittling 1,1664 submissions down to approximately 170 unique sessions for the US and roughly 130 for Europe.
Don’t Dawdle. Don’t Hesitate. Don’t wait, procrastinate, stall or delay…
cast your votes today!
Note: If you don't have a VMworld account, it appears you can create a one and complete the process at a later time in order to cast your votes today.
The Submissions from NetApp
When you vote I’d ask you to consider the submissions from NetApp and a number of our partners. Our engineering teams along with the teams of our key partners, like VMware, Cisco, and more, have some great solutions comprised of technical advancements to share with you. These sessions will literally change your understanding and view of the capabilities a storage platform can deliver to scale, accelerate, integrate, and liberate data center virtualization and cloud computing.
(Note: Table contents updated on 5/13)
| Session ID | Title |
| 1361 | PowerCLI 101 |
| 1427 | Battle of the Storage Experts |
| 1623 | Storage Superheavy Weight Smackdown 2011 |
| 1948 | Architecting a 50,000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View |
| 2031 | Understanding How Storage Design Has a Big Impact on Your VDI |
| 2209 | Understanding How Storage Design has a Big Impact on Your VDI (EU) |
| 2333 | VDI - Answers to the Questions you Wish You Asked |
| 2422 | Reservation and Scheduling for Real-World Cloud Environments |
| 2424 | Affordable, Rapid DR Using Net2vault Cloud NetApp and VMWare SRM (NOT a NetApp employee but NetApp related) |
| 2481 | A Multi-Vendor Panel: "What Does Storage of the Future Look Like?" |
| 2827 | Case Study: SymDemo: How Symantec Learned to Love the Cloud and Saved $39 Million In the Process |
| 2829 | Extending the VMware Infrastructure: The Future of NetApp Integrations |
| 2838 | Delivering Multi-tiered “Storage as a Service” for Private, Hybrid, and Public Clouds |
| 2842 | Becoming a Hybrid Cloud Service Provider: How PeakColo Used VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Connector to Increase Revenue and Improve Margins |
| 2851 | vMotion Anywhere- Optimizing Application Availability with VMware vMotion |
| 2853 | Building Disaster-Proof VDI Environments: Restoring Customer Service and Employees Productivity When It Matters Most |
| 2855 | NetApp Introduces “Cloud-Mode” Storage |
| 2857 | Redefining Datacenter Boundaries: Spanning a Datacenter Across a Metropolis |
| 2859 | VM Misalignment: Why It Really Matters, What It Is Costing You Right Now, and How To Fix It |
| 2863 | How to Use Distance to Your Advantage to Create a Unified Data Protection Strategy |
| 2867 | VDI User Experience: The Secret Portal of Productivity |
| 2870 | Where Did All My Replicas Go?! Managing End-to-End Replication for DR and Backup in One Framework |
| 2877 | Successfully Configuring Site Recovery Manager 5 |
| 2880 | Optimizing Virtual Desktop Environments: How Storage Efficiency Will Improve Performance and Save Money |
| 2888 | Optimizing Storage for Zimbra |
| 2890 | Knowing What Is Happening: Managing Dynamic Services in the Private Cloud |
| 2978 | Deploying Robust, Cost-Effective Storage Infrastructure in Distributed Environments Using Storage Virtual Appliances |
| 2981 | Windows 7 Migration Strategies for Virtualized End-User Computing Infrastructures |
| 2985 | Case Study: Delivering Phenomenal Clinical Patient Care With VMware View. How One CIO Put IT at the Center of Healthcare Innovation |
| 2997 | Virtual Disk Alignment: The Small Detail That Makes a Huge Difference in VMware vSphere Storage Performance |
| 3060 | One Year In: Results from the Siemens AG Private Cloud Implementation and Plans for the Future |
| 3123 | Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenDesktop on VMware vSphere |
| 3142 | Capacity Planning in a Shared Infrastructure |
| 3169 | Case Study: American Greetings Says Thanks a Half-Million |
| 3220 | Desktop as a Service with vCloud Director |
| 3223 | Storage as a Service with vCloud Director |
| 3225 | Storage Best Practices for vCloud Director |
| 3233 | “Get This Monkey Off My Back”: Automating Storage Provisioning and Protection with Storage Service Catalogs and vCloud Director |
| 3279 | Accelerating the Enterprise Journey to the Cloud |
| 3290 | Proven Strategies and Best Practices for Building Private Clouds to Run Tier1 Apps |
Wrapping Up This Post
Thank you for participating in the VMworld session selection process, we truly appreciate it. I’d also like to give another shout out to the Virtualization Technical Marketing Team and our Technical Alliance Manager, Jim Weingarten. If it wasn’t for their tireless efforts creating drafts, editing and submitting the sessions, we wouldn’t be able to offer this content for your consideration.
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