Experience the combined power of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and IBM Cloud to accelerate your innovation and modernise your VMware workloads, with solutions tailored to meet you at every step of your cloud journey. You’ll also learn how you could leverage your existing investments and have a consistent VMware experience across your IT Environment. 

Time: 11:30—11:50 AM CET

Speakers:

• JD Wells
• Bert Jonker

IBM Storage Ceph is software-defined storage that provides distributed block, file, and object storage in a single platform. It runs on commodity x86 hardware, with the potential for significant cost savings when compared with dedicated storage hardware systems.​ In this session you will gain a comprehensive understanding of Storage Ceph's architecture, capabilities, and VMware integrations, and witness how it can help you modernize your storage infrastructure with all the benefits of an Enterprise Storage Platform model.

Time: 1:00–1:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Franziska Haller

Manage and continuously optimize your hybrid cloud with intelligent automation. In this session Christophe Sperandio  will provide a point of view on how IBM Turbonomic helps to optimize VMware environments for performance and efficiency. He will explain different use cases and scenarios for VMware environments and IBM Turbonomic.

Time: 1:30–1:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Christophe Sperandio​, WW Apptio Synergy Technical Leader for EMEA​

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 VMware Cloud Foundation 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.

Time: 2:00–2:20 PM CET

Speakers:

• Phil Fritz - Senior Product Manager - IBM
• Adam Habensusz - Design Lead, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and IaaS Partner Services - IBM
• Mark Precious - Carbon Helix

Cyber threats are getting more sophisticated and pervasive, making it more important than ever for organizations to prioritize resilience so that they can quickly recover to a Minimum Viable Company following a disruptive event. In this session we’ll show how IBM Storage Defender delivers capabilities to manage data resilience across your entire data estate - including primary arrays as well as secondary and tertiary storage - covering all your data copies and across all your VMware workloads. You'll also learn about Storage Defender's ability to intelligently detect anomalies and cyberthreats, and help you recover quickly and safely in the event of a malware attack.

Time: 2:30–2:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Roland Leins

Why spend time on storage management when IBM’s powerful integrations with vSphere can take care of it for you! Come and learn tips and tricks to save time on common tasks and get insights into your storage without leaving vCenter.

Time: 3:00–3:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Warren Hawkins

Time: 3:30–3:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Peter Hirschbeck - Profi

Learn how IBM uses the power of computational storage and advanced AI models to detect ransomware as it’s written, taking your recovery speed from days to minutes.

Time: 4:00–4:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Sally Neate

Given the revised licensing policies of VMware's VCF (Virtual Cloud Foundation), optimizing costs and streamlining VMware infrastructure has become a pressing concern. To address this, PrimaryIO has devised innovative strategies to reconfigure architectures to leverage the advantages of VMware's new licensing policies. These approaches involve migrating VMware workloads to IBM Cloud, which boasts unparalleled performance and scalability for VMware environments. Additionally, ProtectIO's solution ensures the safeguarding of VMware workloads with its one-of-a-kind, on-demand SaaS-based disaster recovery (DR) solution.

Time: 4:30–4:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Mike D Kail

IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service can evolve data protection into data resiliency and closes an important gap in your storage and data protection environment. The session will introduce the major capabilities of the service like governance around data protection, ransomware attack detection, and reliable recovery options.

Time: 10:30–10:50 AM CET

Speaker:

• Roland Leins

Learn how our clients are managing resources full-stack and dynamically, in real time. In this session, Jonas Schweizer will share successful stories of how clients operationalize IBM Turbonomic, with its automation capabilities, to optimize VMware environments for maximized efficiency and greater performance. Get to know how you can bring your VMware environments to the next level—and how others did it.

Time: 11:00–11:20 AM CET

Speaker:

• Jonas Schweizer, FinOps SME & Sales Specialist for DACH, IBM

Are you considering moving workloads to the Cloud? If so, join us for this presentation where we will provide an overview of our solution, discuss migration strategies, and share real-life examples of successfully migrated workloads.

Time: 11:30–11:50 AM CET

Speaker:

• Thomas Schrenk

AI-powered autonomous IT environments have quickly shifted from science-fiction dreams into a burgeoning reality. What storage technology is needed to create the kind of resilient, automated infrastructure for the technological demands of today and tomorrow, while keeping your data safe and secure?

Time: 2:00–2:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Sally Neate

If you're running SAP landscape on-premises, you may be in the process of evaluating SAP ERP modernization strategy considering SAP's focus on cloud. Any approach you choose, you want the least disruption. Join this discussion where IBM can guide you through the different options and how IBM Cloud, the only SAP-certified IaaS for VMware environments, allows you to chart an incremental modernization approach that help minimize disruption.

Time: 2:30–2:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Lindsey Tomlin

IBM Storage Ceph is a software-defined storage platform that consolidates block, file, and object protocols for hybrid cloud and AI workloads. It’s massively scalable and cost-effective, with built-in data resilience.​

Learn about the VMware support in the newest version of Storage Ceph:​

• Increased flexibility with NVMe/TCP support for high-performance block storage over modern high-bandwidth networks;​
• vSphere Plugin to manage NVMe/TCP datastores within the vSphere UI.​

Discover how IBM Storage Ceph can help you modernize your storage infrastructure with a single platform that streamlines workloads across cloud and on-prem environments.

Time: 3:00–3:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Mike Burkhart

Around the globe, businesses are constantly reinventing themselves to remain agile, efficient, and relevant. Clients are at crossroads with acquisition, cost increases and overall effects on development and services. This unique offering of IBM Cloud for VMware (IC4V) powered by Wipro FullStride Cloud? is the key to unlocking the full potential of our clients hybrid cloud strategy. It provides a comprehensive and integrated platform with highly secured and enterprise grade cloud that enables you to migrate and modernize your workloads.

Join this session to unlock the key levers to accomplish:

• Maximize capacity for superior cost savings
• Secure licensing with fit for purpose
• Improve sustainability metrics by reducing DC carbon foot print
• Increase Operational efficiency & Developer productivity
• Achieve 30-40% cost savings
• Minimize change & risk overall.

Time: 3:30–3:50 PM CET

Speakers:

• Suresh Kakkar, General Manager and VMware Business Unit Head
• Nitin Das, Director and Head Solutions & GTM—VMware Business Unit
  

Manage and continuously optimize your hybrid cloud with intelligent automation. In this session Christophe Sperandio  will provide a point of view on how IBM Turbonomic helps to optimize VMware environments for performance and efficiency. He will explain different use cases and scenarios for VMware environments and IBM Turbonomic.

Time: 4:00–4:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Christophe Sperandio - WW Apptio Synergy Technical Leader for EMEA​ - IBM

VMware Virtual Volumes provide powerful, storage policy-based management to simplify and streamline operations. Come along and find out why there’s never been a better time to understand how vVol works and what benefits it can bring to your environment.

Time: 10:30–10:50 AM CET

Speaker:

• Warren Hawkins

Join us to learn how you can leverage IBM Cloud's infrastructure with the latest Intel Xeon 4th generation processors designed to significantly enhances VMware workloads. This integration delivers superior performance, advanced security features, ensuring optimal computational power and data protection resulting in lower licensing costs. Additionally, the integration of AI capabilities by IBM WatsonX and Intel deep learning, accelerates AI and ML workloads, offering businesses a powerful platform for modern applications.This scalable and cost-efficient solution allows seamless migration and growth, making it ideal for organizations aiming to optimize their cloud infrastructure and harness the power of AI.

Time: 11:30–11:50 AM CET

Speakers:

• Stephan Woehl, GTM manager—IBM Cloud
• Jorge Sentis Rodriguez, Business Development Manager—Intel

Disruption cannot be avoided! Financial entities are under pressure to comply with upcoming DORA regulation, one critical element is ICT Risk management, how can we leverage IBM Cloud for Financial Services framework, together with VMware to enable a smooth DR solution and support business continuity in case of a disruption.

Time: 2:00–2:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Eugenio Barozzi

In the face of escalating cyber threats, particularly ransomware, the need for isolated recovery environments as part of an end-to-end data resilience strategy has become paramount. This session will explore the essential role these environments have in protecting critical data and ensuring swift recovery in the event of a cyber-attack. In this session we’ll show how IBM Storage Defender can leverage a clean room, and how this environment would be used in the event of an attack.

Time: 2:30–2:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Roland Leins

Join us to learn more on how you could scale your VCF environment on IBM Cloud’s VPC that gives you the ability to easily and rapidly provision your environment in minutes, control your virtual network functions with complete isolation and have the same user experience as in-on Prem environment without the need to re-skill or re-architecture your applications.   

Time: 3:00–3:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Neil Taylor

Ceph is one of the leading Software Defined Storage solutions and still the No. 1 storage choice for OpenStack VM workloads. At the same time, Ceph has many configuration options that can overwhelm people starting out with it. At the same time, maintaining Ceph —especially during failure—can require a deep understanding of the system. 

To fix that, we now offer a new product called IBM Storage Ceph as a Service, where IBM ships hardware right to your own datacenter. The system itself is all hands-off, where a dedicated and experienced IBM SRE team will manage the storage for you.

Time: 3:30–3:50 PM CET

Speaker:

• Chris Blum

Learn how our clients are managing resources full-stack and dynamically, in real time. In this session, Jonas Schweizer will share successful stories of how clients operationalize IBM Turbonomic, with its automation capabilities, to optimize VMware environments for maximized efficiency and greater performance. Get to know how you can bring your VMware environments to the next level—and how others did it.

Time: 4:00–4:20 PM CET

Speaker:

• Jonas Schweizer, FinOps SME & Sales Specialist for DACH, IBM