VMworld 2018 is just a few short weeks away at this point. Many of those reading this post would no doubt have already filled out their schedule, for those of you who have procrastinated however here are a few sessions that I am looking forward to. To make it interesting I’m limiting my recommendations to one per day, while at the show I fully believe you should take advantage of mingling with others in the community and browsing the show floor to get a sense of some of the innovation that is happening around the ecosystem.
As a fan of vSAN and having listened to Pete Koehler on many topics, I’m sure this will be a great session for anyone looking for to get a handle on how vSAN differs from traditional storage.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to watch this one live due to other commitments but will be eagerly watching the replay. I’ve presented with Wen before and also watched Aarthi present so I know this will be a great session for anyone attending.
Service providers networking is an interesting beast. If networking is your thing then this promises to be an interesting session and you can always trust Ray to get into the details and I expect Tina to bring the service provider perspective into the mix.
There’s a lot of excellent sessions happening on Wednesday, one that is a little out of my ordinary area though is this one on running confluent on top of Pivotal Container Services. Should be an interesting change from the usual VMworld topics.
I’m going to cheat and share another session on Wednesday just because I know it’s going to be cool and cover one of Rubrik (my employer’s) latest capabilities presented by a couple of excellent presenters. Promises to be enlightening!
If you’d like to learn more about Polaris before this session check out the Polaris announcement blog post
I’ve had a bit of an inside view into what has been happening behind the scenes for this session. It’s going to be interesting to hear about some of the more challenging aspects of this project, and how they were addressed. Promises to be an informative and interesting session with some good presenters!
Other Sessions
If the sessions above aren’t enough to fill your schedule there are several more excellent sessions being presented at VMworld this year. Here are a few of my favorite speakers, any of their sessions should be worth your time if you like to skew a bit more technical in your tastes:
- Rebecca Fitzhugh – has an awesome array of presentations this year, all of which will no doubt be amazing
- Duncan Epping – let’s just say he knows how to present and is not shy of addressing both the technical details and high level perspectives
- Christian Dickmann – enjoy listening to his thoughts on simplifying operational management
- Cody Hosterman – if vSphere storage is your thing, you’ll be at home
- Christos Karamanolis – always interesting to listen to his forward looking thoughts
There are of course many other great presenters, but hey this list is getting long already!
If you’re attending VMworld this year have a great time! If you want to connect with me at the conference feel free to reach out to me on twitter @BenMeadowcroft.
