BMC Software
Controlling Sprawl, Enforcing Compliance and Managing Performance thru Automation – an Enterprise Approach That Makes you Money!
Presented by Kia Behnia, Chief Corporate Architect and Becky Fuller, Vice President Channels, BMC

How do you control VM sprawl and maintain compliance in a virtualized environment? How do you manage resource contention between virtualized applications? How do you reduce risk and cost while increasing service levels? Answering these questions is critical to your continued success with virtualization. Join BMC software and see how our Business Service Management (BSM), solutions help your customers balance agility and control to achieve the maximum benefit from virtualization all while helping you sell more VMware. Join BMC's CTO, Kia Behnia, and Vice-President of Channels, Becky Fuller, for an informative overview of how to increase your sales revenue and help your customers realize the full value of Virtualization.

CommVault
A Better Way to Manage Data in Virtualized Environments & Across Your Enterprise
Presented by Zahid Ilkal, CommVault

Learn how a single solution can help you eliminate the threat of data loss and service disruption, expedite recovery and remove data management silos within your physical and virtual environment for optimized protection, recovery and efficiency.

• Improve data protection and recovery
• Simplify management
• Increase operational efficiency
• Reduce operational costs
• Maximize return on investment
• Optimize storage utilization and reduce storage footprint

Dell EqualLogic
Reach New Heights with the Dell™ VMware® Alliance Affiliate Program

Find out how you can take advantage of the Dell VMware Alliance Affiliate program that combines Dell's market leading server and storage products with VMware virtualization solutions to help simplify IT for your clients across all industries and sectors. This session will highlight special incentives and program benefits for you to increase your service offerings, grow your VMware business and build client demand with joint marketing, sales and technical support from Dell and VMware.

EMC
The VMware EMC Effect2: How To Increase Partner Profitability
Presented by Gregg Ambulos, Vice President, EMC Americas Channel Sales; Pete Koliopoulos, Vice President, EMC Global Channel Marketing; and Brandon Sweeney, Vice President, VMware Channel Sales

With best of breed virtualization solutions, specialized training and access to competitive rebates and rewards, EMC Velocity2 and VMware VIP partners are among the most profitable in the industry. Attend this session, led by EMC and VMware channel executives, to learn how together we can help increase your EMC and VMware expertise and accelerate your virtualization business.

Emulex
Emulex: Profitable Solutions for the Virtual Data Center
Presented by Steve Marconi, Emulex Vice President Worldwide Channel Sales & Bill Fields, Emulex Director, System Engineering

Leveraging Emulex's superior performance and the full Emulex/VMware mutual support, VMware users deploy more Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs than any other brand. Learn how Emulex is blazing the virtualization trail with technology innovations like N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and by working closely with VMware to integrate virtualization solutions with storage management best practices.

HP
Delivering Disaster Recovery Solutions with HP Storage & VMware SRM
Presented by Ron Priester, Hewlett Packard, Co.

HP Virtual Storage Arrays and VMware Site Recovery Manager leverages virtualization to simplify business continuity planning and testing while reducing the costs, risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery. This session will introduce and discuss the benefits of DR utilizing HP storage platforms including the EVA4400, and VMWare SRM. VMware Site Recovery Manager works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from HP to provide integrated disaster recovery management and automation. Our customers enjoy reduced costs, while implementing DR solutions from trusted partners. HP StorageWorks platforms combined with VMware SRM provides:

• Integrated management of disaster recovery plans. Create, update and document recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.
• Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans. Execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated testing environment using the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover.
• Hardware configuration dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur without impacting production systems.
• Automated failover and recovery. Automate execution of the recovery process, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.

IBM
Partnering with IBM for Success
Presented by Gary Isaacs, Director, Midmarket Sales - Business Partners, Americas, IBM

IBM wants to help you grow your business! Come learn how you can:

• Develop Solutions for your customers
• Maximize your profits.
• Increase your customer base.
• Help your customers lower their costs while improving efficiency and performance.
• Partner with a global leader in innovation: IBM.
Come to this 45 minute session to learn how easy it is to work with us, and how a partnership with IBM can help you surpass your business goals.

Lefthand Networks
LeftHand Networks and VMware - Taking Your Business Virtually Anywhere

LeftHand offers partners the opportunity to make money on highly differentiated virtualization solutions including HA/DR, virtual desktop, remote office, and SMB solutions. At this session you will learn about these solutions along with the VMware specific incentives, marketing, and sales resources to help grow revenues and increase profitability.

NetApp
NetApp Virtualization Specialization - Maximizing Productivity and Profitability
Presented by Tony West, Virtualization Program Manager, NetApp

NetApp continues to innovate with virtualization technology and the industry leading Virtualization Specialization Partner Program. This presentation will cover the NetApp partner program and how it benefits a partner that is building a practice around delivering virtualization solutions. You will also see how NetApp features combine with VMware to create a leading edge virtualized data center, positioning you with competitive advantage for your customers.

Symantec
Symantec Channel Programs
Presented by Julie Parrish, VP Global Channels, Symantec and Steve Houck, VP Global Channels, VMware

Join Julie Parrish, VP Global Channels, Symantec and Steve Houck, VP Global Channels, VMware for a preview of Symantec's global participation in the Alliance Affiliate Program. Preview how you can take advantage of this business opportunity offering Symantec solutions, managing storage, server and clients, together with VMware. This session will also demonstrate how to take advantage of the Symantec Partner Program, developing sales opportunities through training and leveraging joint marketing programs.

Veeam Software
Providing Optimized Virtualization Management Offerings - Best Practices to Ensure Your Clients' Success – as Well as Your Own
Presented by Rick Hoffman, Veeam Software Vice President, Worldwide Channel & Alliances

VMware ESX implementations are expanding within client organizations at a record pace. Adoption has gone from research-based departmental proofs of concept to enterprise-wide rollouts. This explosive growth is stretching organizations' capabilities as they struggle to discover, document, monitor, reconfigure and efficiently back up and recover mission-critical systems and services.

As more companies embrace the promise of virtualization, finding and retaining sufficient administrative staff grows more difficult and expensive, with virtualization expertise becoming a hot commodity. This situation offers extraordinary opportunities for the nimble and efficient consulting organization. What are the best practices for optimizing your clients' rapidly growing virtualization environments? How can you create repeatable, high-quality offerings that will increase your clients' service levels, mitigate their risk, and lower their overall total cost of ownership? The answers to these questions will provide session attendees with guidelines on how they can maximize their own success in this rapidly expanding market.

Vizioncore
The Keys to Success: Partnering with Vizioncore
Presented by George Pradel, Director, Strategic Alliances – Vizioncore

Vizioncore, a VMware Technology Alliance Partner who is one of the limited few included in the VMware Alliance Affiliate Program, offers partners more opportunities for success than ever. With an expanding and increasingly sophisticated product portfolio, combined with key marketing tools, including our recognized PLUS program, Vizioncore is unmatched in providing new opportunities to boost sales revenues and margins and putting our partners on the fast-track to success.