Tracks & Sessions

VMworld 2008 will offer over 200 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.

Virtualizing the Desktop

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

Building Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Backup and Data Protection
• System and Application Availability
• Disaster Recovery

Exploring Technology and Architecture

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

Planning and Operations in the Datacenter

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

Automating the Virtual Datacenter

• Capacity Management
• Provisioning
• VM Lifecycle Management
• Configuration Management
• Release Management
• Virtual Lab Automation
• Emerging Standards

Running Applications in Virtual Machines

• Mission-Critical Applications: SAP, Oracle, Exchange
• Windows Applications
• Databases and Business Intelligence
• Email and Messaging Services
• Benchmarking and Testing
• Java And Web Applications

Virtualization 101

This track will provide an intensive overview of virtualization topics and solutions in sessions that are geared toward attendees with limited to moderate experience with virtualization.

• The Case for Virtualization
• How Virtualization Works
• Virtualization Solutions
• Virtualization Deployments
• Virtualization Hands-on Demos

For more information or for any inquiries, please submit your VMworld 2008 Questions.