Making the move to the hybrid cloud is no longer a choice but a reality for most businesses. While many enterprises are enhancing their initial cloud investments with new technologies to enable their modernization journey, a hybrid cloud is not just about tools, capabilities and skill sets. Rather, it’s a combination of agility, scalability and a robust infrastructure.
Whether you’re tasked with modernizing your workloads, maintaining security compliance in a regulated industry, data center transformation, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery, or enabling a remote workforce through DaaS, IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions makes it simpler for your organization to capitalize on the tremendous potential of the cloud.
If you’re considering modernizing your VMware infrastructure, your OpenShift environment, or backing up the entire platform, as well as protecting from a variety of available threats, come see how IBM Storage can assist as you strive to make your environments bulletproof. IBM’s storage platform has solutions for you in every category.
We’re coming to VMware Explore 2023 with a power-packed agenda and would love to meet you. See you at Stand #309.
10:30 AM Introducing IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service Multitenant
Phil Fritz, Senior Product Manager, IBM
Sami Kuronen, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud Service Architecture
Worried about managing your infrastructure and staying on the latest compliant VMware software releases and managing day-2 operations? Join us as IBM brings to you IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service, now available in a new multitenant consumption model. Offload the VMware management to IBM while you focus on higher-priority business needs.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
11:00 AM Go beyond data protection to real data resilience with IBM Storage Defender
Roland Leins, Business Development Executive for Storage Software, IBM EMEA
The session provides an overview of the challenges organizations need to address to deliver end-to-end data resilience, a summary of capabilities provided by IBM Storage Defender, and information on how IBM Storage Defender works.
Prize: Bose Headphones
11:30 AM Put Your Software-Defined Datacenter on Autopilot!
Shahrouz Lahiji, Technical Sales Engineer, Turbonomic & Instana SME
In today’s modern software-defined data center (SDDC) era, the applications are the business, and the business is the applications. Virtualization and data center infrastructure are critical to keep up in this complex and fast-changing environment. Turbonomic, an IBM AIOps solution for Hybrid Cloud can help you right-size your workloads. The challenges are beyond the human scale to control, adjust, optimize, and execute changes with the right resources at the right time among all the resources needed in today’s modern infrastructure. The AI analytics engine behind IBM Turbonomic’s actions can solve this issue and even put resource management on automation. In this session, Shahrouz Lahiji will address how you can solve the resource management challenges within IT infrastructure and use automation for cost savings and building a more sustainable data center!
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM LUNCH - no session
12:45 PM Improve your cyber resilience with IBM Storage and Predatar
Markus Stumpf, Head of Data Protection Services and Business Development Manager, Empalis Consulting
Roland Leins, Business Development Executive for Storage Software, IBM EMEA
Discover how easy it is to bring powerful cyber recovery automation and orchestration to your IBM backup estate with Predatar and learn a best practice experience with Empalis Consulting.
Prize: GoPro Camera
1:15 PM "Like-for-Like" migration of SAP ERP to IBM Cloud
Lauri McInnis, WW Leader - SAP on IBM Cloud Platform
Customers who deployed SAP ERP on IBM Cloud were able to go live 20% faster as compared to other public clouds. How? IBM Cloud offers the broadest infrastructure options for SAP and is the only SAP-certified IaaS for VMware workloads that enable like-for-like migration of your SAP on VMware footprint to the cloud. Join this session to learn more.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
1:45 PM Simpler Storage, Superior Performance: Embracing VMware VVols
Warren Hawkins, IBM Storage Virtualize Integration Specialist
Sally Neate, IBM Product Manager, Storage Virtualize, Cloud & FlashSystem Ecosystem
VMware VVols has come a long way, to now be the superior means of managing your storage. Attend this session to learn how easy it is to deploy, and how it will let you get the most out of IBM Storage FlashSystem industry-leading capabilities.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
2:15 PM Prysmian Group transformation journey with IBM on expanding its SAP and Non-SAP landscape on VMware
Allessandro Bottin, Daniele Marconi - Prysmian Group
Barry Brown, Director, IBM Cloud Technical Sales, EMEA
Join us to hear Prysmian Group transformation journey which integrates complex and critical IT environments, delivering an infrastructure that comprises the latest SAP technology with IBM Cloud on VMware, resulting in supporting the growth of workloads with a modular, secure and certified Cloud environment, with up to 20% reduction in infrastructure cost.
Prize: Bose Headphones
2:45 PM Extreme Efficiency with VMWare and IBM Storage FlashSystem
Warren Hawkins, IBM Storage Virtualize Integration Specialist
Sally Neate, IBM Product Manager, Storage Virtualize, Cloud & FlashSystem Ecosystem
Data grows fast. No other block storage system matches IBM Storage FlashSystem’s performance and density, while simplifying the management and resiliency of your mission-critical data. Come join us to learn how the integrations between IBM Storage FlashSystem and VMware make it easier than ever to radically streamline your business operations with unmatched storage efficiency.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
3:15 PM Accelerate your cloud transformation with VMware Cloud Editions on IBM Cloud
Stephan Woehl, Program Director, Product Launch & Growth, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Raj Kuchimanchi, VMware
Cloud Editions from VMware gives operators maximum flexibility to operate on-premises, on edge, or on IBM Cloud VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). IBM Cloud provides the most open and secure VMware public cloud, accelerating the transformation journey for the most discerning customers and workloads.
Prize: GoPro Camera
3:45 PM Achieving Cyber Resiliency with IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Insights
Olivier Fraimbault, Technical Sales Leader, Storage, IBM EMEA
Due to the constant rise of cyber threats, there is an increased focus for businesses of all sizes to establish Storage with AI-OPs for Cyber Resiliency and ransomware Detection. By using FlashSystem alongside Storage insights, businesses gain the ability to deeply manage their most critical workloads and data to detect anomalies and inline threats in real-time. Attend this session to see how FlashSystem and Storage Insights come together to provide the latest technologies for managing your storage, including AIOps, Cyber Resiliency, and Computational Storage.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
4:15 PM Disruptive Disaster Recovery Platform: Intuitive UI, robust capabilities, and lowest TCO with Primary IO on IBM Cloud
Mike Kail, CTO, Primary IO
Bert Jonker, Technical leader IBM Cloud Platform Europe, Technology Architect, IAAS & VMware
PrimaryIO presents its on-demand Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) platform that protects primary site VMware workloads by replicating them to an IBM Cloud VPC or IBM Classic target disaster recovery site. Leveraging the latest of available technologies, ProtectIO is modernized disaster recovery – helping customers by providing continuous data protection and IBM Cloud robustness while also delivering economics of object storage usage for a marketplace-disruptive TCO.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
4:45 PM Implementing a Simplified Platform for VM’s and Containers using IBM Storage Fusion
Oscar Laviña Lopez, Technical Sales Manager for Storage, IBM SPGI
Supporting virtualized and containerized applications with a single platform across on-premises data centers and public clouds is increasingly becoming important for many organizations. IBM Storage Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift provide the ability to support multiple application architectures with a consistent set of application and data services across deployment infrastructures.
Prize: Bose Headphones
5:00 to 5:30 PM HALL CRAWL BREAK - no session
5:30 PM IBM Consulting managed services for IBM Cloud Cyber Recovery
Neil Taylor, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud IaaS Solution Architecture
Greg Phillips, IBM Cloud Platform Leader, IBM Consulting
IBM Cloud Cyber Recovery is Now available as a managed service. These tools can be combined and managed by IBM to easily augment existing strategies to secure critical applications and the new regulations and compliance requirements.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
6:00 PM Test- Drive the latest IBM Storage FlashSystem and gain a competitive advantage.
Ciprian Danciulescu, Storage Ecosystem Marketing Manager, IBM EMEA
If you’d like to see IBM FlashSystem products at no cost, without the commitment to purchase, we have a range of options for you – from a remote demo to an on-premise trial. Discover IBM’s new family of Storage systems with enterprise-class capabilities by TEST-DRIVING one of those superior systems yourself.
Prize: GoPro Camera
6:30 PM Identifying hidden roadblocks: Why 90% of VMware workloads haven't migrated to the cloud
Gabe McKenzie, Advisory Cloud Platform Digital Technical Specialist
Lindsey Tomlin, IBM Public Cloud - Tech Leader
In a recent survey conducted by Akasia, Inc. at VMware Explore events in 2022, it was found that 90% of VMware workloads have not moved to the cloud. Why is it taking so long? What are the roadblocks? Find out more about the cloud-first mandates by using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
10:30 AM Solve the Application and Data Challenge with IBM Storage Fusion
Oscar Laviña Lopez, Technical Sales Manager for Storage, IBM SPGI
As the containerization of applications becomes more popular, it is important to think about the data that these applications produce and consume. IBM Storage Fusion delivers the “Fusion 5” - a comprehensive set of application data services:
1. Persistence - Platform operations and developers gain productivity from Fusion's automation of data storage provisioning with access to block, file, and object storage with high performance and scalability.
2. Resilience - Ensures data is always available during disruptive events or system failures with a range of options for failover, recoverability, granularity, and speed.
3. Security - Data encryption, retention, and recovery to protect from intentional or unintentional data loss. Future proof for cyber resilience when integrated with IBM Storage Defender.
4. Mobility - Apps need to run from the edge to core, to the cloud, which requires applications and data to both be mobile. Fusion automation improves productivity connecting OpenShift applications and data together.
5. Cataloging - Data scientists seek simple and fast ways to create actionable data insights at scale. Fusion transforms the way data scientists implement metadata curation and data insight at scale.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
11:00 AM Accelerate your cloud transformation with VMware Cloud Editions on IBM Cloud
Stephan Woehl, Program Director, Product Launch & Growth, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Raj Kuchimanchi, VMware
Cloud Editions from VMware give operators maximum flexibility to operate on-premises, on edge, or on IBM Cloud VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). IBM Cloud provides the most open and secure VMware public cloud, accelerating the transformation journey for the most discerning customers and workloads.
Prize: Bose Headphones
11:30 AM FinOps in Action with IBM Turbonomic and Apptio
Shahrouz Lahiji, Technical Sales Engineer, Turbonomic & Instana SME
In challenging economic times, both private and public cloud leaders may encounter increased speculation over IT spending and the value it’s delivering to the business. The complexity of adopting modern applications and infrastructure has driven development and spend to be decentralized across teams in an organization, leading to siloed strategies and budgets. To maximize business value in hybrid and multi-cloud, organizations need a solution that can help them effectively manage cloud costs, deliver continuous performance, and connect cloud spend to the results it is driving. Learn how accurately allocating and optimizing cloud and container costs with automated processes and insights – with IBM’s Turbonomic and Apptio technologies – can operationalize your FinOps practices, driving accountability into your technology spending and ensuring your applications continuously perform at the lowest cost.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
11:45 AM to 12:45 PM LUNCH - no session
12:45 PM Join us to hear Jenzabar's real-life digital transformation journey on higher education using IBM Cloud and VMware
James Brossenne, Jenzabar
JD Wells, WW Sales Leader, IBM Cloud VMware Solutions
Join us to hear Jenzabar's real-life digital transformation journey on higher education using IBM Cloud and VMware.
Prize: GoPro Camera
1:15 PM Storage that makes a Difference
Warren Hawkins, IBM Storage Virtualize Integration Specialist
Sally Neate, IBM Product Manager, Storage Virtualize, Cloud & FlashSystem Ecosystem
For modern businesses, data rules. However, there are huge environmental concerns that come with storage. For good reason, storage uses large amounts of energy to keep servers going, which exponentially increases carbon footprints for businesses large and small and ultimately has a negative effect on our plant. Attend this session to learn how your business can leverage IBM Storage FlashSystem to optimize both energy and cost to better serve your business, customers, and most importantly, the planet.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
1:45 PM SDDC powered by DCaaS (Datacenter-as-a-Service) with HCL on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Bert Jonker, Technical leader IBM Cloud Platform Europe, Technology Architect, IAAS & VMware
Vishal Gupta, Technology Lead , HCL
Shared Datacenter as a Service (DCaaS) aims to help enterprises accelerate their hybrid cloud transformation journeys by enabling clients to host their application workloads via managed services and delivering hybrid cloud benefits with comprehensive control and industry-leading security and compliance. Built on the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, this includes shared data centers, dedicated data centers, and regulated workloads in a catalog-based model. Join us to learn about how your organization can benefit from Shared DCaaS.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
2:15 PM Backup and recovery SaaS for data in public cloud services
Roland Leins, Business Development Executive for Storage Software, IBM EMEA
Protect your Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Salesforce data with IBM Storage Protect for Cloud, your trusted solution for secure encryption, compliance, and advanced threat detection.
Prize: Bose Headphones
2:45 PM Address regulation and drive innovation with Sovereign Cloud
Eugenio Barozzi, Senior Financial Services Cloud Leader, IBM EMEA
Join us as we explore how a risk-based approach can help drive compliance and data sovereignty.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
3:15 PM Extreme Efficiency with VMWare and IBM Storage FlashSystem
Warren Hawkins, IBM Storage Virtualize Integration Specialist
Sally Neate, IBM Product Manager, Storage Virtualize, Cloud & FlashSystem Ecosystem
Data grows fast. No other block storage system matches IBM Storage FlashSystem’s performance and density, while simplifying the management and resiliency of your mission-critical data. Come join us to learn how the integrations between IBM Storage FlashSystem and VMware make it easier than ever to radically streamline your business operations with unmatched storage efficiency.
Prize: GoPro Camera
3:45 PM IBM WatsonX for VMware - Bringing AI to your Datacenter
Remus Lazar, VP Software Development, WatsonX & Data Fabric
Ana Manrique, VP Design, Data & AI
Join us to learn about the IBM-VMware joint solution bringing the AI capabilities of WatsonX to VMware's Cloud Foundation (VCF) on-prem and hybrid cloud environments. This allows you to leverage private environments for the training and fine-tuning of ML models and the hybrid cloud option that eliminates large infrastructure capital investment needed for training Gen AI models.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
4:15 PM Go beyond data protection to real data resilience with IBM Storage Defender
Roland Leins, Business Development Executive for Storage Software, IBM EMEA
The session provides an overview of the challenges organizations need to address to deliver end-to-end data resilience, a summary of capabilities provided by IBM Storage Defender, and information on how IBM Storage Defender works.
prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
4:45 PM Introducing IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service Multitenant
Phil Fritz, Senior Product Manager, IBM
Sami Kuronen, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud Service Architecture
Worried about managing your infrastructure and staying on the latest compliant VMware software releases and managing day-2 operations? Join us as IBM brings to you IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service, now available in a new multitenant consumption model. Offload the VMware management to IBM while you focus on higher-priority business needs.
Prize: Bose Headphones
5:00 PM HALL CRAWL BREAK - no session
5:30 PM Achieving Cyber Resiliency with IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Insights
Olivier Fraimbault, Technical Sales Leader, Storage, IBM EMEA
Due to the constant rise of cyber threats, there is an increased focus for businesses of all sizes to establish Storage with AI-OPs for Cyber Resiliency and ransomware Detection. By using FlashSystem alongside Storage insights, businesses gain the ability to deeply manage their most critical workloads and data to detect anomalies and inline threats in real-time. Attend this session to see how FlashSystem and Storage Insights come together to provide the latest technologies for managing your storage, including AIOps, Cyber Resiliency, and Computational Storage.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
6:00 PM Build your Cyber Resiliency and Ransomware Recovery on IBM Cloud powered by Veeam
Neil Taylor, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud IaaS Solution Architecture
VeeaM, TBD
With the value of business data increasing and the agile nature of application development, advanced threats like ransomware are following along into the cloud model. Using backup and DR solutions cannot always keep up. Join us as we look into the cyber resiliency capabilities on IBM Cloud and Veeam to help you protect against complex cyber threats including ransomware.
Prize: GoPro Camera
6:30 PM Test-Drive the latest IBM Storage FlashSystem and gain a competitive advantage.
Ciprian Danciulescu, Storage Ecosystem Marketing Manager, IBM EMEA
If you’d like to see IBM FlashSystem products at no cost, without the commitment to purchase, we have a range of options for you – from a remote demo to an on-premise trial. Discover IBM’s new family of Storage systems with enterprise-class capabilities by TEST-DRIVING one of those superior systems yourself.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
10:30 AM "Like-for-Like" migration of SAP ERP to IBM Cloud
Lauri McInnis, WW Leader - SAP on IBM Cloud Platform
Customers who deployed SAP ERP on IBM Cloud were able to go live 20% faster as compared to other public clouds. How? IBM Cloud offers the broadest infrastructure options for SAP and is the only SAP-certified IaaS for VMware workloads that enable like-for-like migration of your SAP on VMware footprint to cloud. Join this session to learn more.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millenium Falcon
11:00 AM Achieving Cyber Resiliency with IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Insights
Olivier Fraimbault, Technical Sales Leader, Storage, IBM EMEA
Due to the constant rise of cyber threats, there is an increased focus for businesses of all sizes to establish Storage with AI-OPs for Cyber Resiliency and ransomware Detection. By using FlashSystem alongside Storage insights, businesses gain the ability to deeply manage their most critical workloads and data to detect anomalies and inline threats in real-time. Attend this session to see how FlashSystem and Storage Insights come together to provide the latest technologies for managing your storage, including AIOps, Cyber Resiliency, and Computational Storage.
Prize: Bose Headphones
11:30 AM Disruptive Disaster Recovery Platform: Intuitive UI, robust capabilities, and lowest TCO with Primary IO on IBM Cloud
Mike Kail, CTO, Primary IO
Neil Taylor, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud IaaS Solution Architecture
PrimaryIO presents its on-demand Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) platform that protects primary site VMware workloads by replicating them to an IBM Cloud VPC or IBM Classic target disaster recovery site. Leveraging the latest of available technologies, ProtectIO is modernized disaster recovery – helping customers by providing continuous data protection and IBM Cloud robustness while also delivering economics of object storage usage for a marketplace-disruptive TCO.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars R2D2
12:00 PM Go beyond data protection to real data resilience with IBM Storage Defender
Roland Leins, Business Development Executive for Storage Software, IBM EMEA
The session provides an overview of the challenges organizations need to address to deliver end-to-end data resilience, a summary of capabilities provided by IBM Storage Defender, and information on how IBM Storage Defender works.
Prize: GoPro Camera
12:30 PM Identifying hidden roadblocks: Why 90% of VMware workloads haven't migrated to the cloud
Gabe McKenzie, Advisory Cloud Platform Digital Technical Specialist
Neil Taylor, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM Cloud IaaS Solution Architecture
In a recent survey conducted by Akasia, Inc. at VMware Explore events in 2022, it was found that 90% of VMware workloads have not moved to the cloud. Why is it taking so long? What are the roadblocks? Find out more about the cloud-first mandates by using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.
Prize: LEGO Star Wars AT AT
Barry Brown - Director, IBM Cloud Technical Sales, EMEA Kevin Reid - Sureskills Francesco Sartini - BlueIT HCL November 7th - 10:30 - 11:15 am Hall 8.0, Room 10
Brendan Kinkade, Vice President, Technology & Hybrid Cloud Partners, IBM. November 7th – 11:30 – 11:55 Hall 8.1, Partner Lounge
Dave Mitchell, IBM Cloud Global Solutions, IBM. November 7th – 13:00 – 13:45 Hall 8.0, Room 23
Barry Brown, Technical Director, IBM. Alessandro Bottin, Prysmian. November 7th – 16:30 – 17:00 Hall 7.0, The Expo Deep Dives Theater
Olivier Fraimbault, Storage, Technical Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales, EMEA November 8th – 11:15 – 11:45 Hall 7.0, The Expo Explorations Theater
Ana Manrique, VP, Design, Data and AI. November 8th – 14:00 – 14:45. Hall 8.0, Room 17
Phil Fritz, Product Manager, IBM. November 8th – 14:15 – 14:45 Hall 7.0, The Expo Deep Dives Theater
Stephan Woehl, Program Director, Product Launch & Growth, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. Raj Kuchimanchi, VMware. November 8th – 15:45 - 16:15. Hall 7.0, The Expo Explorations Theater
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions makes it simpler for your organization to capitalize on the tremendous potential of the cloud. Migrate VMware workloads to the IBM Cloud while using existing tools, technologies and skills from your on-premises environment.
IBM Storage delivers the secure data platform required to get the most out of your VMware infrastructure, optimizing workloads deployed across cloud, data center and edge environments. Enable digital transformation using a software-defined foundation that streamlines hybrid cloud storage with a simplified approach to containerization, AI, management and data protection while accelerating VMware-based business innovation with award-winning IBM all-flash, hybrid flash, and tape storage systems.
Success in your cloud-native and hybrid cloud journey means deploying applications everywhere. Learn practical insights based on thousands of production deployments that you can use today, with the help of Red Hat and IBM.