Tracks & Sessions

Thank you to everyone that submitted for the VMworld 2008 Call for Papers! We had an overwhelming response with over 875 submissions. This year submissions were reviewed and voted on by a content committee, consisting of almost 200 people including industry analysts, VMware customers, partners, and employees. Unfortunately because of limited space, we were only able to accept 25% of those submissions. The decision process was difficult; many quality sessions had to be declined. We are exploring innovative ways to weave those speakers and their content into other areas of VMworld and VMorld.com. Stay tuned for other opportunities to participate.

VMworld 2008 will offer over 285 breakout sessions that fall into the following seven tracks. These tracks have been chosen to help you create an agenda that reflects your current virtualization interests, from sessions that explain how to justify, plan and architect a virtual infrastructure, to deep-dive technical sessions for advanced users.

The Content Catalog is now available online. Learn more about sessions, hands-on labs and speakers in preparation to build your calendar in August. Please be sure to check back as updates to the Content Catalog will be made on a regular basis.

Automating the Virtual Datacenter

• Automation Strategies
• Capacity Management
• Configuration Management
• Release Management
• Virtual Lab Automation
• VM Lifecycle Management

Building Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Back-up and Data Protection
• Disaster Recovery
• System and Application Availability

Exploring Technology and Architecture

• Networking
• Performance
• Programming Interfaces / SDKs
• Security
• Solution Architecture
• Storage

Planning and Operations in the Datacenter

• Architecture and Design
• Green IT
• Installation and Deployment
• Management and Operations
• Security
• Strategy and Planning

Running Enterprise Applications in Virtual Machines

• Business Applications
• Database Applications
• Email and Messaging Services
• Java and Web Applications
• Mission Critical Applications

Virtualization 101

• Best Practices for Implementation
• Considerations When Going Virtual

Virtualizing the Desktop

• Desktop Application Virtualization
• Assessing and Planning Virtual Desktop Deployments Desktop Client
• Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Industry Solutions Desktop
• Virtualization Technology and Architecture