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VMworld 2006 Tracks And Sessions

Friday, 11 August 2006 by Michel Roth

VMworld 2006 offers more than 120 breakout sessions that fall into one or more of six different tracks. These tracks have been chosen to help attendees create an agenda that reflects their current virtualization interests, from sessions that explain how to justify, plan and architect a virtual infrastructure, to deep-dive technical sessions for advanced users.

Sessions are ranked according to their level of technical content, from 1 to 3, with 3 being advanced. Sessions are also tagged with searchable keywords such as security and regulatory compliance to further assist attendees in fine-tuning their VMworld schedules.

VMworld tracks and sessions content will fall into one or more of the following categories:

Architecting the Data Center
Find out the best methods for assessing, planning and evaluating a hardware and software environment for virtualization. Breakout sessions will also cover communicating the technical and business benefits of virtual infrastructure, getting management approval and other topics around building and deploying virtual infrastructure in the data center.
Managing the Data Center

Building Business Continuity
Understand all aspects of building high-availability systems including operational recovery and disaster recovery.
Developing, Testing and Deploying with Virtualization

Managing the Enterprise Desktop
Examine how virtualization can provide secure and managed desktop access to both local and remote users, including remote development teams, call centers, consultants and field sales organizations.

Exploring Technology and Architecture
Explore the technology and architecture of virtualization products from VMware and our ecosystem partners. Breakout sessions will offer a deep dive, under the covers look at the architecture of VMware products. Get an in-depth look at VMware DRS, learn best practices for architecting a particular ISV application running on virtual infrastructure or for running virtual infrastructure on a particular hardware platform, and discover how to tune hardware to get the best performance out of virtual machines.

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