One of my favourite aspects of attending VMworld is attending the general sessions, whilst they are now all streamed live I don't think you can beat being there live to get the full experience.
This year the focus was firmly on the software-defined data centre, bringing to the cloud and transforming the workspace.
As ever it was great to hear from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and COO Sanjay Poonen
Gavin Cohen, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, gives a quick company overview for Nimble Storage, including the growth of their unified flash configurations. He then introduces their Cloud Platform. This replies on a Multicloud Flash Fabric, which combines multicloud storage across providers, all flash storage arrays, and converged infrastructure. Gavin shows how this can be used to easily move between clouds, allowing organizations maximum agility.
Recorded at Storage Field Day in Silicon Valley on March 9, 2017. For more information, please visit https://www.nimblestorage.com/ or http://TechFieldDay.com/event/sfd12/
Please note this was drawn for vSAN 5.5 prior to the all flash release. You are now able to have flash in place of the HDD's described below, however one must still be allocated as cache even in a all-flash design.
Tips and Trips for Veeam Backup and Replication
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Docker Containers
Azure Remote App
Simon Townsend of AppSense (Now Ivanti) spoke about good cyber hygiene with a Catch, Patch, Match strategy. He spoke about the importance of application white listing, appropriate user privileges and application white listing.
Workspace 2020 with Ruben Spruijt & Jeroen vande Kamp