April 30, 2013 | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Hyatt Regency La Jolla
3777 La Jolla Village Dr.
San Diego, CA 92122
AIS is a Platinum Sponsor of San Diego’s largest VMUG meeting of the year.
AIS and BusinessCloud1 customer Liquid Grids will be delivering the keynote address from 12:45 to 1:45 pm.
Join your fellow VMware users at this full-day event for in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations and exhibits.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
VMUG is pleased to offer top notch education at its user conferences.
Agenda
| TIME | EVENT |
| 8:00 – 8:30 am | Registration | Breakfast | Mingle with Vendors |
| 8:30 – 8:45 am | VMUG Welcome |
| 8:45 – 9:15 am | VMware Update – Michael Ibarra, Manager, Systems Engineering, VMware |
| 9:15 – 10:15 am | The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching – Rory Bolt, CEO/Founder, Proximal Data |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break | Mingle with Vendors |
| 10:30 – 11:15 am | Breakout Block #1 | Education Sessions |
| Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs – Veeam | |
| The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) – Silver Peak | |
| Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP –NetApp | |
| Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage – Nimble Storage | |
| VMware Labs (Equipment provided by 10Zig) | |
| 11:15 – 11:30 am | Break | Mingle with Vendors |
| 11:30 – 12:15 pm | Breakout Block #2 | Education Sessions |
| Software Defined Datacenter – Noah Johnson, Staff Systems Engineer, VMware | |
| Cloud Best Practices – Spencer Cuffe, Staff Technical Support Engineer, VMware | |
| Troubleshooting Storage Performance – Dante Carbone, Technical Support Engineer, VMware | |
| What’s New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive – Gregg Parsons, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware | |
| VMware Labs (Equipment provided by 10Zig) | |
| 12:15 – 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director – Ramos Mays, CTO,Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, Sr. Director of Cloud Service, AIS (American Internet Services) |
| 1:45 – 2:00 pm | Break | Mingle with Vendors |
| 2:00 – 2:45 pm | Breakout Block #3 | Education Sessions |
| Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications – Symantec | |
| How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment – Commvault | |
| Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware –EMC | |
| Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: “Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?” – Arista Networks | |
| VMware Labs (Equipment provided by 10Zig) | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Break | Mingle with Vendors |
| 3:00 – 3:45 pm | Breakout Block #4 | Education Sessions |
| Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions – Dell Wyse | |
| A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center – Hitatchi Data Systems | |
| Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment – SimpliVity | |
| Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage – Tintri | |
| VMware Labs (Equipment provided by 10Zig) | |
| 3:45 – 4:00 pm | Break | Mingle with Vendors |
| 4:00 – 4:45 pm | Breakout Block #5 | Education Sessions |
| VMware Software Defined Storage – Mark Davis, Founder/CEO, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013) | |
| New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing – Dante Carbone, Technical Support Engineer, VMware | |
| What’s New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive – Gregg Parsons, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware | |
| ESXi Operational Best Practices – Spencer Cuffe, Staff Technical Support Engineer, VMware | |
| VMware Labs (Equipment provided by 10Zig) | |
| 4:45 – 5:00 pm | Closing |
