May 19, 2019 at 19:44

VMware EMPOWER 2019 - the main topics of the conference, which will be held May 20-23 in Lisbon

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    EMPOWER 2019 is the annual meeting of VMware partners. Initially, it was part of a more global event - VMworld - a conference for acquaintance with technological innovations of the IT giant (by the way, in our corporate blog we analyzed some tools announced at past events). Last year, EMPOWER decided to hold a separate event - this, according to the organizers , wanted a large number of partners. Along with the change in format, the volume of content has also increased.

    There will be two streams - technological and marketing


    The first is dedicated to VMware software solutions. The speakers will share their experience with public and hybrid clouds, software-defined networks, cloud security systems and container technologies (we will discuss more about some of the topics below).

    As part of the flow, workshops will be held on setting up a virtual IT infrastructure. Also, participants will be given the opportunity to take one VMware exam for the title of VCP - VMware Certified Professional.

    As for the second stream, here VMware experts and invited speakers will talk about the marketing strategies of the IT giant, how to interact with customers and demonstrate fresh tools aimed at helping partner companies grow their businesses and provide new services to customers.

    Among the speakers are experts from VMware, Intel, CloudHealth and others. A special guest is also expected, whose name is kept secret for now. We only know that this is a former technology editor from the Financial Times, now working as a technical consultant. The organizers promised to reveal all the cards later.

    More on what will be discussed


    Administer public, private, and hybrid clouds. Speakers will talk about new features of tools for IaaS providers. One of these will be the vRealize Suite cloud management system . She received a number of updates. For example, VMware added the ability to set thresholds for the load on virtual machines - while the system independently balances traffic. We also expanded the possibilities for working with multi-tenant architecture. Special filters in the control panel allow administrators to better understand what is happening with individual infrastructure components.

    Network virtualization. In particular, we will talk about the platform NSX Data Center. Last year it was also updated: they added support for working in bare-metal and container environments. System administrators can now network applications regardless of their deployment method. In addition, integration with containers has increased the security of services.


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    speakers will also talk about working with VMware NSX SD-WAN, which automates the management of devices on the network. With it, an administrator can extend the same security policies to different cloud environments.

    VMware experts will show how to use the updated tools to increase network security in the data center of the IaaS provider and improve the quality of the services provided. These solutions have already been tested in practice.some foreign vendors.

    Digital work environment. They will talk not only about solutions for cloud providers, but also tools for their customers. For example, about the Workspace ONE platform , it is a cloud service that collects and analyzes data from the company's applications and networks. Based on this information, he determines which systems are working properly and which are not, and makes recommendations for administrators. Moreover, the system is able to independently prevent unauthorized access to the digital workspace. Workspace ONE tools have already been tested in several dozen American schools, automating security tasks.

    In addition to Workspace ONE, the conference will discuss VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise and Oracle, SQL, SAP products. VMware experts will conduct a master class on configuring these solutions in the cloud of the IaaS provider.

    What else to expect


    Last year, at VMware EMPOWER 2018, participants could visit 54 panels. This time their number was more than doubled. In addition to the topics mentioned above, the conference program featured speeches on data storage technologies (vSAN 6.7 and LiveOptics) and the Cloud Health service for administering public clouds and monitoring the resources consumed by them. Separate sections will be devoted to the work of VMware Cloud Foundation.

    The speakers will also touch upon the development of multi-cloud environments. This direction was actively discussed at the previous conference. Then we talked about technologies for administration, automation and security of multi-cloud environments.

    A complete list of planned topics and a schedule of speeches with the names of speakers .

    IT GRAD travels to Lisbon


    We are a partner of VMware in Russia. Therefore, we decided to take part in this event (we shared similar experience on our blog once and twice ) in order to evaluate the latest news and chat with colleagues.

    This week we will be reporting from the scene in our Telegram channel . Following the results - we will publish detailed reports and analytics in a blog on Habré and in social networks .


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