VMworld 2020 | First Day Summary

Posted on October 13, 2020 Updated on October 13, 2020

VMworld 2020 DAY 1 is now in the books and a fellow co-worker did this fantastic write up. I cannot take not credit for this post expect reformatting it to be posted on my blog.

~Enjoy!

VMworld 2020 kicked off this morning and is continuing on throughout the night, ending early Oct 1^st. VMworld this year is online, Free* and continuous delivery vmworld; stretching the globe.  Aptly themed “Together, Anything is Possible.”  (*A paid pass was available for deep dive, limited sessions)

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I have summarized and linked the announcements, OnDemand sessions, note that any OnDemand session links will require a vmworld 2020 registered account to view the embedded videos.

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack

Applications drive digital transformation, and application needs drive multi-cloud strategies. VMware’s cloud strategy has been defined by the notion that all roads lead to the app. VMware Cloud supports the broadest multi-cloud environment, spanning all clouds and application types to deliver consistent infrastructure and operations, and enable a consistent developer model. As any good strategy goes, we are continually listening to customers and looking for ways to improve our VMware Cloud portfolio. Today, I’m pleased to announce VMware’s intent to acquire SaltStack, a pioneer in building intelligent, event-driven automation software.

So, why is SaltStack important to VMware’s customers? Because time is money and speed is the new currency for digital transformation, VMware works hard to give customers a fast and simple path to cloud for their VMware-based workloads. We started by giving customers a home for these workloads in the cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS, which we build, run and sell alongside our strategic public cloud partner AWS. Over the past several years, this has expanded, and customers can now tun VMware-based workloads on every major hyperscaler and more than 200 Cloud Verified partners globally.

To get our customers to the cloud, we offer VMware HCX, which allows customers to literally mass migrate 1,000s of vSphere workloads in a short amount of time. Customers can automate infrastructure across clouds with VMware vRealize, and the next logical step was to enable more seamless onboarding and better cross-cloud orchestration with configuration management. This is what we are getting with SaltStack.

Once closed, SaltStack will allow us to deliver full-stack automation from infrastructure to applications with the ability to do software configuration inside VMs and containers. SaltStack has built a phenomenal open source community, which we will continue to grow and foster consistent with our open source strategy. And while our strategy has been one of supporting best-in-class choice of supporting configuration management, we believe many customers will want something simple and integrated.

Successful companies in this new era will not be the biggest or the fastest, but the ones that are agile, can adapt their business models to the needs of the current times and, simply put, are fast. And cloud is a key ingredient to deliver on that business agility, and we expect SaltStack will help our customers on their multi-cloud journey.

Read On Here

Keynote Recap 

Day 1 kicked off with an inspiring and informative general session led by VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger. Focusing on the digital foundation for an unpredictable world with your business, your apps, and your data at the core.  Delivering five critical building blocks – app modernization, multi-cloud, digital workspace, virtual cloud network, and intrinsic security – to help our customers with their digital transformation. There were also several major announcements along with inspiring testimonials from across the globe.

Other notes:

• ESXi being installed on SmartNics
• Saying goodbye to Wi-Fi with Enterprise 5G
• Open Radio Access Network, Software Defined 5G Network with VMware NSX

We also heard from VMware COO, Sanjay Poonen, starting with our five priorities being vertically delivered throughout healthcare, education, public sectors, retailers, and financial services industries. He also discussed VMware’s “any app, any cloud, any device” technology strategy with the help of Dormain Drewitz, Purnima Padmanabhan, and Lilit Div.

Several prominent thought leaders made an appearance, sharing their perspectives from their diverse industries. These luminaries included:

• • Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Feeding America CEO, using VMware technology in their data centers to respond to their demands and delivering 1.5M lbs. of food to ensure no one goes home hungry.
  • John Donahoe, Nike CEO, using VMware products in their digital transformation to help deliver great consumer and employee experiences seamlessly.
  • Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, announcing Project Monterey unleashing AI for every enterprise in accelerating data and security processing to line speed.
  • Lori Beer, JPMC, diving into their private cloud infrastructure where they are seeing their provisioning times decreased significantly with their key measure being speed of delivery.

The world has quickly changed this year, and it’s continuing to – but VMware is always ready to help you meet the need

View the Day One VMworld General Session OnDemand

We were also treated to a thought-provoking conversation with Lori Beer, Global CIO, JP Morgan Chase, joins Sanjay Poonen for a fireside chat. Beer will share her perspective on managing through a pandemic, transforming a business with technology, cyber security in the enterprise, and inclusive strategies for talent.  Also joining Sanjay, Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, on her perspective on transforming a business and the importance of creating an environment that everybody can bring their own self to. We also heard from Stephan Bancel, CEO of

Moderna, on how his team was able to pivot the company and work together to fight COVID-19.

View some of Sanjay’s Fireside Chats OnDemand:

• Fireside Chat: Sanjay and Lori Beer, Global CIO, JP Morgan Chase [V13460D]
• Fireside Chat: Sanjay and Indra Nooyi [VI3156]
• Fireside Chat: Sanjay and Stephane Bancel [VI3157D]

Networking and Security

A huge focus on security is front and center at VMworld, here is a summary of the announcements.

Office workers, apps, data, and devices are increasingly distributed. And that creates new security, scale, and performance challenges. Of course, that’s in addition to the growing challenges we already face in our data centers and in operating across multiple clouds. Today, we announced several compelling innovations that will dramatically improve your organization’s security posture, starting with the VMware SASE Platform.

Hair pinning network traffic to enforce security policy has long been impractical. SASE makes it simple for you to bring essential network and security services near your end users, regardless of where they work. VMware SASE Platform takes advantage of VMware SD-WAN’s massive global footprint of more than 2,700 cloud service nodes across 130 points of presence (POPs).

The key components of the VMware SASE Secure Access Service Edge solution include:

• VMware SD-WAN, our industry leading platform for transforming wide area networking.  The SD-WAN Maestro’s Hat Trick: VMware Named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure
• Cloud Access Service Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and remote browser isolation via our new collaboration with Menlo Security. These offerings will be sold and supported by VMware.
• VMware NSX Stateful Layer 7 Firewall SaaS offering.
• Zero Trust Network Access, which leverages VMware SD-WAN and VMware Workspace ONE in an integrated offering to provide optimal performance and policy-based access centered on the user and device identity for each connection.
• Edge Network Intelligence, which is the integration of the technology we acquired from Nyansa. The solution uses machine learning-based predictive analytics to ensure SLAs are met, along with providing security and visibility to end-user and IoT devices.

While the SASE announcement is big news, there are several additional security announcements that I believe you’ll find of interest:

• • VMware Workspace Security VDI: VMware Workspace ONE Horizon and VMware Carbon Black Cloud are integrated into a single unified solution that leverages behavioral detection to protect against ransomware and file-less malware. On VMware vSphere, the solution is integrated into VMware Tools, removing the need to install and manage additional security agents.
  • VMware Workspace Security Remote: An integrated solution that provides endpoint management, endpoint security and remote IT for physical Mac and Windows 10 devices. The solution includes the next-generation antivirus, audit and remediation, and detection and response capabilities of Carbon Black Cloud. It also includes the analytics, automation, device health, orchestration, and zero-trust access of the Workspace ONE platform.
  • VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload: Agentless security for virtual machines on vSphere—the realization of the vision that we articulated at VMworld 2019. This solution makes it much easier for infrastructure operations and security operations to collaborate.
    Security risk visibility is now built into VMware vCenter, providing the same visibility as seen in Carbon Black Cloud, thus streamlining collaboration and more proactive threat remediation. Security is now dynamically ingrained in the VM lifecycle as a part of VMware Tools, making security intrinsic to the infrastructure.
    VMware will offer a 6-month unlimited free trial of VMware Carbon Black Workload Essentials to all current customers with vSphere 6.5 and above, as well as VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.
    We also plan to introduce a Carbon Black Cloud module for hardening and better securing Kubernetes workloads, giving security teams policy governance and control of their Kubernetes environments.
  • VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention brings the technology from our recent Lastline acquisition to the VMware NSX Service-defined Firewall. This solution is the only purpose-built, distributed, scale-out firewall designed to protect east-west traffic across multi-cloud environments. Lastline integration into the service-defined firewall uses unsupervised and supervised machine learning to identify threats and minimize false positives, with the ability to apply virtual patches at every workload and not just at the perimeter—an industry first.

We also announced several new capabilities across our network portfolio:

• VMware Container Networking with Antrea: A commercial offering consisting of signed images and binaries and full support for open source Project Antrea. VMware Container Networking with Antrea will be included in VMware NSX-T and vSphere 7 with Tanzu. While Antrea can get you started, when you look to scale container networking across clusters, NSX-T will get you there.
• NSX-T 3.1: New API-driven advanced routing and multicast capabilities, along with automated deployment of workflows through Terraform Provider.
• VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.0 Network Assurance and Verification: Now leverages formal verification to gather network state build and model how the network functions. The model is then used to provide continuous verification of business policies across virtual, physical, and multi-cloud networks. This allows IT and network operations to discover potential brownouts before they occur.  Announcing vRealize Network Insight 6.0

More details about NSX-T 3.1 & Project Antrea in a section below

VMware vRealize Cloud Universal

On the cloud management front, we announced VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, which combines SaaS and on-premises management software into a single subscription license. This makes it easy to switch between vRealize Cloud solutions without acquiring different licensing.
We also introduced new federation capabilities for a consistent management experience across deployments, as well as Skyline integration, which provides a single integrated workflow to proactively identify and resolve potential and existing issues.

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VMware vRealize AI

Starting in 2018, we previewed Project Magna. And now in 2020, we are once again delivering on technology showcased at previous VMworld conferences. Project Magna is now generally available as VMware vRealize AI, which uses reinforcement learning to self-tune application performance.

Early adopters have seen performance improvements as high as 50% for read-and-write I/O with the read-and-write cache optimizations that vRealize AI made to their vSAN environments. Best of all, this is just the beginning.
You will see more capabilities moving forward, bringing your organization a highly intelligent, self-optimizing infrastructure.

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Announcing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-demand DRaaS to Protect your vSphere Workloads

We are very excited to announce VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – a new VMware on-demand disaster recovery (DR) offering that will be delivered as a simple easy-to-use SaaS solution with the benefits of cloud economics. Based on technology from VMware’s recent acquisition of Datrium, it will enable IT and business continuity teams to resume critical business operations after a disaster event.

Disaster Recovery is Critical for Every Business, and DRaaS Adoption is on the Rise

 In a recent analyst survey, 76 percent of respondents reported an incident during the past two years that required an IT DR plan, while more than 50 percent reported at least two incidents (1). At the same time, cyberattacks are on the rise, increasing business risk. In 2019, 52 percent of global enterprise network security decision-makers had experienced at least one sensitive data breach in the past 12 months (2). And just this month, security researchers reported a seven-fold year-on-year increase in ransomware reports (3). Therefore, it’s no wonder that CxOs and board members increasingly care about DR.

Although organizations realize the importance of implementing a robust DR solution for business continuity, compliance with industry regulations, protection against disasters, ransomware and security breaches, traditional DR solutions can be complex, expensive, and unreliable, leaving many teams less than confident that their DR plan will work when needed. Hence, many are turning to disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) because of its simplified operations and low total cost of ownership (TCO). In other words, many are seeing DR as an ultimate rentable IT service, and hence why DRaaS adoption is on the rise.

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To get an even closer look at the solution, take the VMworld Hands-on Lab. Or check out our product page. Thank you!

• VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Product Page
• VMworld 2020 Sessions: HCI2876, HCI2886, HCI2865
• VMworld Hands-on Lab: HOL-2193

Project Monterey Tech Preview

VMware has been pursuing SmartNIC virtualization and integration opportunities over the past couple of years.

Nvidia’s Blog     VMware’s Press Release

In March 2019, we demonstrated ESXi running on a SmartNIC. And last year at VMworld, we demonstrated four hypervisors running simultaneously on the same server with no nesting. Our vision for opportunities related to SmartNICs and composable infrastructure was further solidified at VMworld 2020 with the announcement of Project Monterey.

Applications, data, infrastructure, and security services are seeing increasingly demanding performance requirements. Simultaneously, IT organizations are looking to find greater opportunities for automation and efficiency. Project Monterey takes advantage of emergent hardware innovations to offer new approaches to hybrid cloud architecture and operations.

We’re sharing this information now to open doors for further opportunities to shape this innovation with our customers and technology partners. Leading SmartNIC vendors are already working with us on Project Monterey, which is currently centered around three key use cases:

1. Network performance and security:Consider running security services such as a L4-7 firewall on SmartNIC, decoupling it from the host platform and achieving line rate performance. Organizations can further isolate tenants, running independent workloads on SmartNICs or even run multiple network functions in isolation on the SmartNIC via isolation provided by the hypervisor (e.g., ESXi on Arm).
   2. Storage performance and dynamic composition:As with networking, you have new opportunities for combinations of scale-up and scale-out architectures by taking advantage of processors on SmartNICs to accelerate a variety of storage functions, such as compression and encryption. Project Monterey will also provide further capabilities to scale storage capacity on-demand to meet performance or capacity requirements.
   3. Bare metal workloads and composability: This is where Project Monterey really gets interesting. Imagine running the ESXi control plane on a SmartNIC, freeing all the x86 host cores to run other workloads, inclusive of bare metal. That allows you to run workloads on bare metal, while still being able to integrate them with core SDDC services, such as VMware vSAN and NSX. From a flexibility perspective, these options take VMware Cloud Foundation to a new level in terms of the ability to dynamically support a variety of hardware interfaces, composing infrastructure on-demand.

For an in-depth look at Project Monterey, take a look at Kit Colbert’s blog post.

VMware Delivers the Next Wave of Virtual Cloud Network Innovation to Connect and Protect Today’s Distributed, Multi-Cloud Enterprise

            NSX-T 3.1, SmartNics & Project Antrea

Delivering the Next Wave of Virtual Cloud Network Innovation

VMware will deliver new Virtual Cloud Network innovations across three areas – automation that enables the public cloud experience; modern application connectivity and security services; and solutions that re-imagine what’s possible in network security.

Network Automation that Delivers a Public Cloud Experience: VMware will add more cloud automation and scale, uptime and resiliency, ML-based predictive analytics, and intelligence to the virtual cloud network. VMware NSX-T 3.1 will support even larger-scale global deployments and disaster recovery use cases and automated deployment workflows. VMware will double the scale of NSX Federation, add new API-driven advanced routing and multicast capabilities, and offer Terraform Provider support. VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.0 will bring new assurance and verification capabilities as well as expanded VMware SD-WAN visibility. These updates will enable better planning for virtual and physical networks, improved network uptime and resiliency, faster troubleshooting, and proactive identification of potential network problems based on intent, and more effectiveness in achieving service level agreements. VMware Edge Network Intelligence is a new AIOps solution based on technology acquired from Nyansa. It will provide automated and actionable intelligence that helps assure users and IoT devices on campus, in branches, or in the

home get the network performance they need to support applications.

Connecting and Protecting Modern Apps: Organizations looking to improve productivity, agility, and customer experience are embracing a container-based, micro-services architecture and standardizing on Kubernetes for container management. The connectivity and security needed to address microservices requirements while at the same time connecting Kubernetes clusters to the infrastructure introduces the need for a rich multilayer networking stack. VMware is extending the Virtual Cloud Network to connect and protect these environments through VMware Tanzu Service Mesh powered by NSX and support for Project Antrea, an open source that enables Kubernetes networking and security wherever Kubernetes runs including on-premise vSphere, public clouds as well as edge. Tanzu Service Mesh includes new capabilities focused on improving application continuity, resiliency, and security. The new VMware Container Networking with Antrea is a commercial offering consisting of signed images and binaries and full support for Project Antrea. VMware Container Networking with Antrea will be included in VMware NSX-T and vSphere 7 with Tanzu. Applications running on Kubernetes clusters using Antrea as the Container Networking Interface (CNI) can be discovered, connected, and better protected by Tanzu Service Mesh.

Re-imagining Network Security: VMware will deliver unmatched levels of firewall performance and programmable intelligence to the Virtual Cloud Network by enabling VMware NSX to run on leading SmartNICs. This includes advanced security for bare metal and highly sensitive workloads such as databases which are hard to protect today. Additionally, it enables “air gapping” of infrastructure, separating applications and hypervisors from the security controls on the SmartNIC. VMware is also announcing VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention, which combines NSX Distributed IDS/IPS with advanced malware detection (sandboxing) and AI-powered network traffic analysis (NTA) acquired from Lastline, Inc. These NTA capabilities use unsupervised and supervised ML machine learning models to more accurately identify threats and minimize false positives compared to other network traffic analysis tools. The solution delivers an industry-first ability to apply virtual patches at every workload, something traditionally only implemented at the perimeter, enabling more effective response to sophisticated threats before they disrupt business.

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Additional VMware & Nvidia Partnership Announcements

VMware and NVIDIA announced that, together, they will deliver an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI as well as a new architecture for data center, cloud and edge that uses NVIDIA DPUs to support existing and next-generation applications.

“We’re going to bring the power of AI to every enterprise. We’re going to bring the NVIDIA AI computing platform and our AI application frameworks onto VMware,” Huang said.

Through this collaboration, the rich set of AI software available on the NVIDIA NGC hub will be integrated into VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu.

“For every virtual infrastructure admin, we have millions of people that know how to run the vSphere stack,” Gelsinger said. “They’re running it every day, all day long, it’s now the same tools, the same processes, the same networks, the same security, is now fully being made available on the GPU infrastructure.”

Ref: Understanding DPU, (CPU & GPU)

Multi-Cloud

As with our technology strategy, we remain focused on aligning our innovations toward a multi-cloud future that offers consistent infrastructure and operations, along with a native developer experience.

IT operations should not have barriers to managing and operating data center, multi-cloud, and edge environments. Customers should have a consistent and well-integrated set of tools and processes. Developers should also have the flexibility to use their tools and APIs of choice.  Today, VMware admins can simply provision a Kubernetes namespace to developers, and ops can manage all the underlying infrastructure considerations using their tools of choice. The same holds true for managing applications and services in public clouds.

VMware solutions help IT operations manage and monitor environments, enforce policy and automate remediations without impacting developers’ ability to use the tools and APIs offered by the cloud provider. With that as the strategic backdrop, let’s dig into our multi-cloud announcements.

Azure VMware Solution

Following the announcement that Azure VMware Solution is generally available, there is now a production VMware footprint in every major public cloud:

• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• IBM Cloud
• Oracle Cloud

With the Azure VMware Solution, organizations benefit from the cost savings of Azure Hybrid Benefit, integration with Microsoft Office 365 and other native Azure services, as well as Azure console integration.

There are also several new capabilities for VMware Cloud on AWS, including:

• VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-demand Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) that gives you cloud economies and is backed by Amazon S3 storage. The Live Pilot Light option provides instant power-on for VMs running on VMware Cloud on AWS. The service includes several compelling features, including no VM format conversions, continuous DR health checks, built-in audit reports and optimized failbacks.
• VMware Tanzu support: Makes it simple to extend on-premises Tanzu deployments to VMC and across clouds.
• VMware Transit Connect: Provides any-to-any connectivity between on-premises, VMC on AWS SDDCs and AWS VPCs using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect Gateway.
• New regional compliance listings (G-Cloud, HIPAA BAA, EBA) and white papers (UK NCSC 14 Principles, FISC).
• Enhanced automation and operations: Expanded vRealize Operations, Cloud Automation, Orchestrator, Log Insight and Network Insight support.
• Enhanced HCX capabilities: Replication Assisted vMotion, local routing for migrated VMs and migration grouping.

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Interest continues to grow in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, which allows you to realize the benefit of cloud IaaS with the flexibility to run the service in your on-premises data center. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC now includes support for VMware HCX-based workload migration, making it simple to migrate VMs to the new environment.

In addition, several compliance and regulatory certifications have been achieved, including:

• EU GDPR compliance
• ISO 27001
• ISO 27018
• AICPA SOC 2
• CCPA compliance

There are also many more performance, scalability and sizing options, which you can read about here.

Announcements links in short

• Read Kit Colbert’s blog post “Announcing Project Monterey – Redefining Hybrid Cloud Architecture”
• Learn more about VMware Cloud Foundation
• Read a summary of today’s news from Chris Wolf: VMworld 2020: Innovating with the Expectation of Change
• VMware Announces Future-Ready Workforce Solutions to Address the Needs of the Distributed Workforce
• VMware Delivers Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure
• VMware Empowers Customers to Build their Multi-Cloud Future
• VMware Expands Tanzu Portfolio and Partnerships to Accelerate Customers’ Infrastructure and Application Modernization Efforts
• VMware vSphere 7 U1 with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs (MIG) for Machine Learning Applications
• SASE Blog Series: Why is SASE akin to Networking Nirvana?
• VMware Edge Network Intelligence: Network Intelligence for the Globally Distributed Enterprise
• VMware & zScaler

Missed out on day 1? Don’t worry, there’s still time to register for another innovative day at VMworld 2020 and access to the OnDemand Sessions. Get up to speed with our Know Before You Go. 

7 tips for getting to VMworld 2019

Posted on June 20, 2019 Updated on June 20, 2019

I’ve been lucky enough to make it to very VMworld since 2008 but it wasn’t always easy getting there. Being the former Phoenix VMUG leader and currently a 8-year VMware employee I’ve come across all types of VMworld tips. In this blog post I list out my tips to help enable you to be more successful in positioning your “ask” or “request” to attend.

TIP #1: Make VMworld your personal goal!

Okay, so you got the big No from your employer. Normal reasons for a denial are “costs too much”, “value to our company”, or “we can’t afford to have you away”. Fair enough, but the real question should be – how prepared were you to support your request? Imagine you are the manager and an employee somewhat casually asked you to spend $1000’s to go to an event you may never even heard of. What would your reaction be? Chances are you’d say no too.

Set a goal to attend VMworld – Say it again “Set a GOAL to attend VMworld” Think about it this way — you know VMworld is going to happen, so why not add it to your yearly goals? Even if your company doesn’t have goal planning then start a personal list and think about how to achieve this goal.

TIP #2: We achieve what we focus on the most

If getting to VMworld was always easy then I wouldn’t be writing this blog post. If you are being turned down year after year, you might consider a change of focus. Your focus should be known but not annoying. In other words, let others know that VMware and getting to VMworld is what you are passionate about. Let them know how VMware technologies help innovate your company, how it reduces downtime, how it makes you all more secure, etc. etc. By letting others know and understand your passion you’ll go from the person asking to go, to your VMware thought leader and soon management will be coming to you telling you to go to VMworld vs. you asking to go.

TIP #3:  Get Help

Next, don’t do this alone. Do you have someone who can help support your goal? Maybe it is a fellow employee, VMware account team, VMware TAM, VMUG leader / Users, and most importantly don’t forget about your partners that support the VMware community. Talk with them, tell them about your goals and the reasons why you want to achieve them, see how they can help support you. Finally, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Are other employees successful in going to training, conferences, or events? Clearly, they are successful with their requests, so why not work with them on your goals and find new ways to be successful.

TIP #4 Getting past the “Total Cost”

Having your employer pick of the tab can be a challenge. Your plan should include the total cost to attend, how you plan to fund it, and keep in mind this cost can be quite high for some companies on a tight budget. My suggestion is if you are getting the big ‘No’ due to costs then work with your company around the total costs. First find out why it’s a ‘No’ and look for opportunities to overcome this, then use my tips below to enhance your plan. In general, your first challenge in subsidizing cost maybe your company’s policy around accepting gifts. Understand this policy well, don’t just take someone’s word as there maybe ways to accept gifts under specific circumstances. Read your companies current policy and ask the policy writers questions to better understand it. I think you’ll find there are ways to do this you just need to do some research.  Explore your company – Talk with your travel department or even HR/Benefits around funding sources as there maybe programs to help employees with Education and events. Point is, ask and explore you never know what you will find and be able to achieve.

TIP #5 How do I get a free VMworld Pass aka the Golden Ticket?

Getting a free pass to VMworld can be your biggest challenge. However here are some ways to get your hands on one.

• Give-a-ways
  • I can’t tell you how many vendors do an annual giveaways contests — hit them early, often, and enter as many as you can find
  • Tips-
    • When you enter, find out who your local vendor contact is, let them know you entered, and then stay in contact with them all year long and then some
    • Keep in mind not all contests are the same, some are based on random drawings and others are not. This is why I say keep in contact with the vendor and let them know your intent.
    • How do I find give-a-ways >> Google ‘VMworld getting there for free’ or ‘VMworld contest’, Look on Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media platforms
• Get the word out
  • Tell your boss, workmates, vendors, partners, use twitter, linked in etc. and Repeat again and again. By doing this you let others know about your strong interest in getting there, in turn they might get a lead for you.
  • Most importantly, reach out to your local VMUG leader and ask them for tips in your area. They are usually well connected and might have a lead for you as well.
  • Follow Twitter and Linked In – You never know who is going to post up “I have a pass, I cannot go, and need to give it to someone” This is pretty common just before the event and yes you can transfer a pass to someone.
  • New to Twitter, need contacts? It’s simple find the #VMworld hastag, see who is posting to it and start following them. Then look at all their contacts and follow them too, soon you’ll have a gaggle of folks
  • This sounds like work. Why do all this? Simple, distributed coverage model. The more people who know the more likely they are to help and in turn the more likely you’ll succeed.
• Don’t forgo an Expo-Only or Solutions Exchange Pass
  • If you get offered this pass take it. I can’t tell you how many vendors have these passes and cannot give them away, seriously this is gold but folks don’t know how to leverage them.
  • First off this pass has great value, there is a TON of value here. See the current VMworld Pass features for more information but normally you can get into the larger Sessions and the Solutions Exchange
  • Second this pass can get you on to the Solutions Exchange floor where all the vendors and partners are.
  • Once there start talking to all the vendors, fellow attendees, all those folks you meet on twitter, etc. as you never know who has a full pass they couldn’t get rid of, take it and upgrade yours
  • Third while you are there with an Expo Pass use Twitter and the VMworld hash tags to let folks know you’re looking for a full pass.
  • Stop by the VMUG booth on the Expo floor, you never know who will be there and you never know if users there might be able to help you
• Vendors and Partners
  • Find out who is sponsoring VMworld this year, and then…
    • Start calling the ones you know well, ask them for support getting there
    • Don’t forget to call the ones you don’t know so well too
    • If you have deal on the table with a vendor coming up, inquire if they can put passes in the deal.

TIP #6: What about Food, Hotel, and Travel Costs?

When you attend the event other costs include food, hotel, and travel, but how can you minimize this on a tight budget?

• Food
  • If you get a pass then lunch and usually breakfast are included but check the schedule
  • For dinner, find out where the nightly vendor events are as they usually have food
  • Talk with Vendors they might take you out, you never know
  • Lastly, there is usually free food everywhere, in-fact feel free to give some to the homeless I usually do.
• Hotel
  • Ask a Vendor to help pay for just the room or ask them to gift hotel points to you
  • Room Share with someone at the event << Think about it, you won’t be in the room that often and chances are from 7AM till 10PM you’ll be out of your room.
  • Use Travel sites to cut down the cost (Booking.com, Google Travel, AirBnB)
  • My Secret Hotels:
    • San Fran try the Carriage Inn and The Mosser
    • When VMworld is in Las Vegas (not for 2019) there are lots of options but try Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel (usually very quiet not a casino) or The Westin Las Vegas Hotel & Spa
  • Use your Hotel or other travel points to book the hotel for free
  • Get a low cost hotel away from the event, but watch your travel costs to get to the event
• Travel
  • Airfare
    • Ask a vendor to pay for just the airfare, or maybe they have points they can gift you
    • Use your own travel points to pay for this
  • Rideshare to the event
    • See if one of your connections are driving to the event, offer to split fuel costs
    • You drive someone to the event, and they pick up the hotel or vise versa
  • Local Travel (try the following)
    • VMworld Shuttle
    • Hotel Shuttle
    • City Transit Options
    • Ride Share – Uber / Lyft
    • San Fran BART / Las Vegas Monorail
    • Share a Rental Car or Taxi
  • Once again hit up those vendors, they might have a way to get you around for free

TIP #7: Finally here is a breakdown of how I got to so many events and how it was paid for

Summing it up…

My take is, if you REALLY want to go you’ll get there but sometimes it takes effort and if you do it right it might not cost you a thing. Don’t let anything stop you and find your way there.

Finally, after you’ve been to the event don’t forget about the folks who got you there and say ‘Thank you’. Then over the next year continue to build these relationship as you never know if you’ll need help again, or you want to help someone else get there.

Best of luck and do reach out with suggestions, comments, or great stories around how you got there!

If you like my ‘no-nonsense’ blog articles that get straight to the point… then post a comment or let me know… Else, I’ll start writing boring blog content.

VMworld 2018 – Recorded Sessions

Posted on September 4, 2018 Updated on September 5, 2018

Here is a great list of the VMworld 2018 sessions. Thank you to William Lam and Hadleigh Rush (both with VMware) for creating and organizing this great list. This is their work, but I did want to post it to be shared further with others.

*UPDATE 09/05 — Last checked the [DOWNLOAD] might not work, not sure when this will be resolved.*

~Enjoy!

Branch and Edge (9)

• BRE2129BU – Introduction to NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud: Transforming the WAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE2165BU – SD-WAN Use Cases Designed to Optimize Your Network [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE2166BU – SD-WAN Security Integration: Control & Management for a Bulletproof Network [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE2167BU – Zero to 60 in Two Seconds with VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE2168BU – Deployment of Hybrid SD-WAN with Real-World Examples [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE2171PU – Customer Panel on??NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• BRE3038BU – Consuming Cloud Provider SD-WAN Services?? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NS3729KU – The NSX Keynote: Building the Network of the Future with the Virtual Cloud Network [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SEC3730KU – Transforming Security in a Cloud and Mobile World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Cloud Management (62)

• CNA1075BU – Operating and Managing Kubernetes on Day 2 with PKS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1200BU – Deploy vSphere Integrated Containers in Production: Case Study with Allegis [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1232BU – Have Your Cake and Eat It: VMware IT Adoption of PKS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DC3732KU – Driving Transformation from the Data Center to the Public Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DC3845KU – Cloud and Developer Keynote: Public Clouds and Kubernetes at Scale [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3728KU – Innovating Beyond HCI: How VMware is Driving the Next Data Center Revolution [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2890BU – How Cloud Service Providers deliver Multi-Cloud Management-as-a-Service [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1515PU – Transformers: How VMware IT Transitioned to a Services-Based Organization [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1719BU – Taming Security with Tools: Making Compliance a Reality [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1787BU – Aspiring for Operational Excellence by Shortening Value Chains [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1063PU – Developer Cloud Introduction ??? VMware’s New Cloud Management Strategy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1201BU – Self-Driving Operations: What???s New with vRealize Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1336PU – Tales from the Trenches: Realizing the Full Value of vRealize Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1352BU – Create a ServiceNow Self-Service Portal with a vRealize Automation Plug-in [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1399BU – DevOps Radar: Visibility Scaling SaaS, Containers, Serverless in Wavefront [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1440BU – Operationalize Your World: Practical Steps Toward Proactive Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1534BU – vRealize Operations Capacity and Cost Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1540BU – See Everything: Cross-Cloud Observability with Wavefront Current and Future [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1614BU – Effectively Operating an Automated Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1640BU – Self-Driving Operations with vRealize Operations Performance Optimization [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1644QU – Discover How to Save Up to 30% on Cloud Infrastructure with vSphere Optimization Assessment [STREAM][DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1645BU – Doing the Impossible: Change Dev Team Spending Behavior Through Showback [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1650BU – Accelerate DevOps with Cloud Automation and Configuration Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1652BU – Application Networking and Security with vRealize Automation and NSX-T [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1763BU – How to develop a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate digital transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1772BU – Brokering Services Across Multiple Clouds and Platforms [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1773BU – Container Management and VMware PKS Support for vRealize Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1774BU – Ring Central Maximizes Agility and Developer Productivity with vRealize [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT1815BU – Leading Financial Services Transformation in a Multi-Cloud World [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• MGT2102BU – Accelerate your IT Code and Application Delivery ??? Customer Perspectives [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2139BU – Manage Wavefront Monitoring with the New VMware Application Proxy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2174BU – Deep Dive: How Fannie Mae Releases vRealize Content Using Lifecycle Manager [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2191BU – Advanced Extensibility Use Case: vRealize Automation and Ansible Tower [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2204BU – VMware Cloud Management: See the Mother of All Demos! [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2242BU – What’s New in vRealize Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2528BU – vRealize Automation Architecture and Troubleshooting Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2552BU – Troubleshooting Made Easy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2556BU – Use Cloud Services to Deploy and Maintain Apps in a Multi-Cloud Environment [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2566BU – HCI Management Using vRealize Operations and vCenter [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2621BU – From VI Admin to Cloud Ninja: Top 5 Skills Needed in the Digital Age [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2843BU – Code Stream Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2844BU – AWS App Security and Visibility with Network Insight and Log Intelligence [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2887BU – Deep Dive: How to Drive Down Your Cost in Hybrid Cloud with Cost Insight [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2915BU – Agile Cloud Management with VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2934BU – Optimize Workload Cost and Performance Using the vRealize Suite [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2954BU – Introduction to Real-Time Insight and Governance for Cloud Infrastructure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3054QU – Deep Dive into Wavefront Log Data Metrics and Log Intelligence [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3112BU – When Seconds Mean Dollars: Intelligent IT Operations at the CME Group [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3192BU – Deep Dive: Multi-Cloud Troubleshooting for Infrastructure and Applications [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3369BU – Meet vRealize Operations Ninjas: Charter Communications and Vanguard [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3711BUS – A Tale of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Data Protection [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3718BU – Finding “Connected Threats” – The Hidden Risks in Your Public Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3719BU – Automating Cloud Security, Compliance and Governance into the CI/CD System [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3759BUS – How GameStop Leveraged the Cloud to Meet Business Continuity SLAs [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3760BUS – How SailPoint Modernized its Datacenter with the Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3774PUS – A journey to NSX ??? how to solve the “choose two out of three” quandary. [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1723BU – Day 2 Automation of NSX Data Center Using vRealize Suite [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2119BU – Building Private Clouds with NSX-T Data Center & VIO: Lessons from DMM.com [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2764BU – Introduction to vRealize Network Insight [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2883BU – Introduction to NSX Data Center for Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET3409BU – Using vRealize Network Insight to Optimize the Software-Defined Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2555BU – Accelerate App Security and Availability with vRealize Network Insight [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Cloud Networking (50)

• CNA1564BU – Container and Kubernetes 101 for vSphere Admins [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1884BU – NSX and Generic Network Overlays with HCI: Everything You Need to Know [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1142BU – Case Study: Hybrid Cloud with vCloud Extender from Customer to Provider [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2406BU – VMware NSX for Service Providers: A Technical View [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1106BU – Advanced NSX Data Center: Demystifying the VTEP, MAC, and ARP Tables [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1127BU – Logical Routing Deep Dive on??NSX-T Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1128BU – Logical Routing Deep Dive on NSX Data Center for vSphere [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1283QU – How VMware IT Leverages VMware NSX for Large-Scale, Self-Service IaaS [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• NET1285BU – The Future of Networking and Security with VMware NSX [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1327BU – VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX: Use Cases, Design, and Implementation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1490QU – Scalable Networking and Security for Kubernetes on OpenStack [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1516BU – Introduction to NSX Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1528BU – PowerNSX: Bringing the Power of PowerCLI to VMware NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1536BU – Multi-Site Networking and Security with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1537BU – NSX-T Data Center Architecture and Benefits [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1549BU – Deep Dive into Operationalizing NSX-T Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1559BU – SDDC Reference Design with NSX Data Center for vSphere [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1561BU – Next-Generation Reference Design with NSX-T Data Center: Part 1 [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1562BU – Next-Generation Reference Design with NSX-T Data Center: Part 2 [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1586BU – Networking and Security for Small Data Centers with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1610BU – NSX-T Edge Services: Design and Deployment Options [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1631QU – NSX Data Center for vSphere Hardware Gateway Solution [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1642BU – NSX-PowerOps: Day2 Ops, NSX Health, Security, and Automated Documentation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1677BU – Kubernetes Container Networking with NSX-T Data Center Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1742BU – N-VDS: The next generation switch architecture with VMware NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1754BU – NSX Cloud:??Deployment Deep Dive and Architecture [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1822BU – Upgrading NSX Data Center: A Zero Downtime Approach [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1855BU – NSX-T Data Center Performance Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1879BU – vRealize Network Insight Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1894BU – NSX Design for Cloud-native Apps with Pivotal Cloud Foundry [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1919BU – NSX Mindset: Clouds Collide, Opportunity Strikes [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET1945BU – Deploying NSX Data Center on a Cisco Infrastructure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2068BU – Introduction to Container Networking and Security with NSX-T Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2155QU – Troubleshooting for VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2409BU – Advanced NSX Services in VMware Cloud on AWS: Use Cases and Best Practices [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2420BU – Rethinking Disaster Recovery with NSX Data Center and NSX Hybrid Connect [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2518BU – Deploying and Automating NSX-T Data Center: lessons from IHS Markit [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2628BU – Introduction to NSX Data Center for Multi-Cloud Networking [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2701BU – Virtual Cloud Network End-to-End Demo: Powered by NSX [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2761BU – NSX Data Center Load Balancing and VPN Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2770BU – Introduction to NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2865BU – VxRack Flex and VxRack SDDC HCI Networking with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET2916BU – Consistent Network and Security Policy from Data Center to Cloud with NSX [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET3042PU – Customer Panel on NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET3193BUS – VMware NSX and Getting the Most Out of Your Infrastructure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET3681PU – Lessons learned from successful NSX Deployments [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET3821BU – Maximize your NSX Deployment with Open Networking Solutions [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NET4857BU – NSX-T Data Center Install Deep Dive and Best Practices including PKS/PAS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2598PU – Customer Panel on Micro-Segmentation Ops with vRealize Network Insight [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3770BU – Mitigating CPU Security Vulnerabilities ??? A look at vSphere Mitigations [STREAM]
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Cloud Services (11)

• CNA2084BU – Intro to VMware Kubernetes Engine-Managed K8s Service on Public Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA3106QU – Integrating VMware Kubernetes Engine with Existing AWS Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA3124BU – Deep Dive: VMware Kubernetes Engine-K8s as a Service on Public Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA3173BU – Manage 100s of clusters, 1000s of namespaces using VMware Kubernetes Engine [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2422BU – Enabling Cloud Marketplace Services with VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2099BU – To Infrastructure and Beyond: Infrastructure as Code with VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3918BU – Amazon RDS on VMware: Database Management Services on vSphere [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• MGT4683BU – How CloudHealth Can Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Multi-cloud Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3217BU – Introduction to VMware AppDefense [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3219BU – Great Power, Great Responsibility: Least Privilege Security with AppDefense [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3243BU – Use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Simplify Security [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Cloud-Native Apps (22)

• CNA1199PU – Deploy Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes: Real-World Stories From PKS Users [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1464BU – Securing Pivotal Cloud Foundry by Regularly Rebuilding [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1493BU – Run Docker on Existing Infrastructure with vSphere Integrated Containers [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1553BU – Deep Dive: The Value of Running Kubernetes on vSphere [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1634QU – Container Portfolio at VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1656BU – Put a Lid on It: Securing Containers and Kubernetes on vSphere and in Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA1780QU – What’s New with PKS and Emerging Use Cases [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA2009BU – Run Stateful Apps on Kubernetes with PKS: Highlight WebLogic Server [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA2141BU – Applying Software Design Patterns and Methodologies to Your IT Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CNA2755BU – Architecting PKS for Production: Lessons Learned from PKS Deployments [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• CNA3146BU – Technical Deep Dive: Kubernetes Networking and Security with NSX-T on PKS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV1325BU – Path to Production: Value Stream Mapping in a DevOps World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV1434BU – From Building Infrastructure to Building App Platforms: Your Next Career [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV1965QU – QuickStart DevOps Culture with VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV2500BU – DevOps and Pragmatic Process Change: Top 5 Processes to Accelerate DevOps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV2641BU – Bring Your Traditional Application to Kubernetes with PKS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV2828BU – Automating IT Ops with Dispatch Serverless Framework [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1338BU – vSAN: An Ideal Storage Platform for Kubernetes-controlled Cloud-Native Apps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1433PU – Accelerating Application Development Through Infrastructure as Code [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1869BU – VMware IT’s Cloud-Native Transformation Journey [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI1527BU – Deep Dive into NSX Data Center Security for Clouds, Containers, and More [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3220BU – Securing Kubernetes and Docker Containers with VMware AppDefense [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

DevOps (6)

• DEV1761BU – Delivering Agile Infrastructure as a Service via vRealize Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV1967BUS – Mind the Gap: Building a closer relationship between Security and DevOps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV2403BU – DevOps Culture and Practice: From Theory to Reality ??? A VMware Story [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DEV3504BU – Development at VMware: A Look at How PowerCLI Has Evolved Over the Years [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1813BU – A Deep Dive on Why Storage Matters in a Cloud-Native World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT2920BU – Customer Success Story: Enable Developers with Infra-as-Code and Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Endpoint Management (33)

• ACC1210BU – Implementing Endpoint Security and Conditional Access for Office 365 [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC1621PU – Customer Panel: Knocking Down the Barriers of Workspace ONE Adoption [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2488BU – Delivering Secure and Seamless Access to All Your Apps, Devices and Data [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2753BU – Building Your Unique Path to the Digital Workspace [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2892BU – Learn What’s New with Workspace ONE and how to Embrace a Digital Workspace! [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2964QU – Securing the Digital Workspace with Conditional Access [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC3458BU – Workspace ONE – Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• DW3727KU – The Digital Workspace Keynote: End User Computing and Mobility Live! [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END1156BU – Moving Beyond Limits:How VMware IT Embraced Modern Management of Windows 10 [STREAM][DOWNLOAD]
  
• END1225BU – Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for Your iOS Deployment [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2713BU – Co-manage Workspace ONE + SCCM : Get to Windows 10 Modern Management Faster [STREAM][DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2728PU – Customer Panel: Real World Conversations With Those Migrating to Windows 10 [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2748QU – Ask the Experts: How Workspace ONE Trust Network Secures Your EUC Ecosystem [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2766BU – First Look at New Dell and VMware Developments That Optimize PC Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2811BU – Real-World Conversations with Customers Using Modern Management for MacOS [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• END2833BU – Windows as a Service: Who Moved My Cheese and How Can I Get It Back? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2852BU – Discover The Latest Workspace ONE Intelligence Capabilities and ??Use Cases [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2866BU – Transform Windows 10 Management with Workspace ONE: What IT Teams Must Know [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2902QU – End-User Computing at VMworld: Everything You Need to Know [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2912BU – Workspace ONE Intelligence Mobile and Desktop Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2930BU – Delivering the Vision of the Digital Workplace (Lessons from the Field) [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2947BU – Securing Remote Access with Workspace One – What???s New [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2948BU – Enhanced iOS Management: From Onboarding to Update Management and Beyond [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2962BU – Deep Dive Into New Android Enterprise Personas and Deployment Methods [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2966BU – Expanding AirWatch to UEM for macOS Modern Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END2978PU – How AirWatch Customers Are Moving Beyond Mobile to UEM across all Devices [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END3200BU – Taking the Plunge: Windows App Lifecycle Management with Workspace ONE [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END3460BU – Deep Dive Into What’s New with Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END3572BU – Industry 4.0: How Rugged and Workplace IoT Are Transforming Supply Chains [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• END3818BUS – Arm your Cloud Workers for Security and Productivity with Chrome Enterprise [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3674PU – Transforming the Business of Healthcare: From Maintaining to Innovating [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3535BUR – Is VDI Dead? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3706PUS – Become the office hero with Dell & VMware desktop virtualization solutions [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Hybrid and Public Cloud (75)

• HCI1145BU – Why VMware vSAN Is the Best Solution for Cloud Provider Environments [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic EBS-Backed vSAN on VMware Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2827QU – Site Recovery Manager and Multiple Sites: The What, How, and Why [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3085BU – Site Recovery Manager Integrations Across VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3136BU – VMware Site Recovery (DR as a Service) Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1071BU – Secure, No-Retrofit, App portability to Cloud in 4 clicks, with VMware HCX [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1187BU – VMware Cloud on AWS: The Migration Venture [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1211BU – A Journey to VMware Cloud on AWS for Oracle and SAP Applications [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• HYP1215BU – How VMware IT Migrated Mission-Critical Workloads to VMware Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1376BUR – Accelerate Your Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS: What???s New [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1377BU – VMware Cloud on AWS Security and Compliance Details [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1451BU – Service Overview for VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1496BU – A Practitioner???s Guide to Migrating Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1499BU – Introducing VMware Cloud Provider Pod [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1517BU – Picking Up the Pieces and Recovering in the Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1803BU – Delivering Custom Services Through vCloud Director Extensibility [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1810PU – Ask the Cloud Experts [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1950BU – Navigating Hybrid Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1969BU – Migrations Made Easy on the IBM Cloud … Deep Breath, Focus, Go! [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1994BU – Developer Automation 101: From vSphere On Premises to VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2048BU – VMware Cloud on AWS: Live, Next-Gen Integrations for Your Next-Gen Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2060BU – Multitenant Managed Service Provider Platform for VMware Cloud Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2145BUS – Hybrid cloud architecture design and best practices for VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2211BU – Getting the Most out of Your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2228BU – Redefining Hybrid Cloud Management with vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2379BU – Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2445BU – From On Premises to Beyond [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2470BU – Quickly Getting the Most out of Your VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2697PU – VMware Cloud on AWS Customer Panel [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2723BU – Automate Hosted Private Clouds Everywhere Using VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2817QU – Understanding the TCO Benefits of VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2861BU – Multi Cloud Architectures and Evolution: Customer Perspective [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2982BU – GenPro: Leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS and Faction for Disaster Recovery [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3003BUS – Hello, You Had Me at Infrastructure as Code: Hybrid SDDC Cloud Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3019BU – VMware Site Recovery: DR-as-a-Service with VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3024QU – Software-Defined, Hybrid, and Distributed: Welcome to the VMware Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3025BU – Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: High Availability for VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3061QU – Seamless, Large Scale Workload Migrations to the IBM Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3300BU – Public Cloud: A Critical Component of Your Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3326BU – Cloud Provider Transformation with vCloud Director, NSX, and vRealize Suite [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3694BUS – Disaster Recovery with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX and VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3696BUS – Simplify operations with machine learning for secondary data and apps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3704BUS – Veeam and VMware – Intelligent Data Management for the Hybrid World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3705BUS – Improving App Performance and Protection for VMware: NVMe, Cloud and Beyond [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3714PUS – Trusted Hybrid Cloud???NIST???s Trusted Cloud Building Block & Ref Architecture [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3715BUS – Periodic Backup is Dead! Hello Zerto 7 [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3720BUS – Automatic Failover to AWS When a Wildfire Approaches Your Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3733BUS – Milliseconds Matter: Optimize Cloud Applications Through Network Control [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3734BUS – Applications w/o Borders Best Execution Venue for your Cloud Application [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3736BUS – Practical Guide for Delivering Advanced Security at Scale & Speed in SDDCs [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3827BUS – How Advanced Threat Intelligence Can Protect Your Data [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3828PUS – Deliver Real Value in your Data-Driven Enterprise with Multi-Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3829BUS – Address Disaster Recovery & Backup Needs: Physical, Virtual, & Multi-Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3846BUS – Meeting Cloud First, App First demands with F5 and VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3853PU – IBM Presents: FREESTYLIN??? THE CLOUD with Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3870BUS – Artificial Intelligence – The Underpinning of Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3879BUS – Clear-cut Resiliency for VMware and AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3880BUS – Instant business value and protection with AWS and VMware hybrid solution [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3882BUS – A Hybrid Journey to Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP3920BUS – VMware Cloud on AWS adoption in the enterprise [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP7472QU – Accessing External Storage on VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1873BU – A Peek into the Future of VMware IT???s Multi-Cloud Strategy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1940BU – Digital Transformation in Action: From Buzzword to Reality [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT2131BU – Getting IT Ready to Successfully Enable Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3135PU – How Your Peers are REALLY Doing in Their Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3675BU – Status of CIO Recruitment and Leadership Traits most Desired by CEOs [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• MGT3026BU – Building Machine Learning Services with VMware Integrated OpenStack [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1669BU – VMware Cloud Foundation Real-World Success with Professional Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2147BU – State of Minnesota???s Software-Defined Data Center Journey [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3477BU – IBM and VMware Cloud Foundation: Building a Unified Hybrid SDDC Experience [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI1983BU – Security Architecture, Use Cases, and Tools with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VIN2572BU – What’s New in vMotion: Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3486BU – Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS: What You Need to Know [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3489BU – Life in a Multi-Cloud World: Choosing the Right Cloud Desktop Solution [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3493BU – Put Horizon Deployments on Autopilot with the Universal Cloud Connector [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (66)

• HCI1059BU – Architecting VMware Site Recovery Manager to Meet Your DR Goals [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1099BU – Real-World Deployment Considerations with vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1246BU – Optimizing vSAN for Performance [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1270BU – The Power of Storage Policy-Based Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1272BU – vSAN Data Placement and Availability [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1330BU – Enabling Microsoft Failover Clustering with vSAN iSCSI Service [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1468BU – Building a Business Case for HCI and VMware vSAN [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• HCI1469BU – The Future of vSAN and Hyperconverged Infrastructure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1473BU – The vSAN I/O Path Deconstructed: A Deep Dive into the Internals of vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1475QU – Demystifying vSAN Management for the Traditional Storage Administrator [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1476BU – Mixed-Workload Versus Single-Purpose vSAN Clusters [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1477BU – New Ways to Use vRealize Operations and Log Insight for vSAN Environments [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1552BU – Deploying vSAN to 300 Stores in 2 Weeks: An Automation Story [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1583BU – vSAN Myth Busters: Busting the Common Misconceptions About vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1603BU – Tech Preview of vSAN Data Protection: Safeguarding VM Data on vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1615PU – vSAN Technical Customer Panel on vSAN Experiences [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1691BU – Architecting at the Tactical Edge with VMware vSAN and vRealize [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• HCI1705BU – Data Protection in VMware Hybrid Clouds [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1768BU – What’s New in vSAN: Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1769BU – We Got You Covered: Top Operational Tips from vSAN Support Insight [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1960BU – Why HCI Solutions Powered by vSAN Work Best for Your vSphere Environments [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI1993BU – vSAN Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2001BU – Best Practices for Deploying DataStax Workloads using vSAN Host Affinity [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2019BU – Running SAP HANA on HCI Powered by vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2032BU – Successful vSAN for Remote Offices and Branch Offices [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2038BU – Best Practices for Deploying Hadoop Workloads on HCI Powered by vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2040BU – vSAN Deployment Topology and Availability Deep Dive: What You Need to Know [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2041BU – vSAN Encryption Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2052BU – Sizing Your HCI Environment: How To Do It Correctly and Accurately [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2053BU – Hitting Refresh with HCI for Better Performance and Less Complexity [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2061BU – Forget Click, Click, Click: Manage vSAN at Scale with PowerCLI [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2088BU – vSAN Stretched Clusters Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2103BU – Choosing the Right HCI Solution in the Multi-Cloud Era [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2107QU – Back to Basics: Why HCI? Why Now? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2110BU – Top Reasons Why vSAN Is the Best Hyper-Converged Solution [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2164BU – HCI Management, Current and Future [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2180BU – vSAN Support Insight: Inside Out [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2208BU – vSAN Hardware Guidance on Performance and Configuration [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2427BU – Managing vSAN Resiliency and Performance at Scale [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2474BU – Site Recovery Manager 8.1: What’s New? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2476BU – Tech Preview: RDMA and Next-Gen Storage Technologies for vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2501BU – Accelerating Digital Transformation with InterSystems IRIS and vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2513QU – Using vSAN Native Data Protection in the Real World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2522BU – Getting Started with vSAN Automation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2550PU – Leveraging Virtual Volumes (VVol) to Simplify Storage Management [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2617BU – Best Practices for Deploying Business-Critical Oracle Workloads on vSAN HCI [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• HCI2681BU – The Latest and Greatest with VMware vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2736BU – Lessons Learned from Real-World vSAN Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2810BU – Virtual Volumes (VVol) Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2909QU – VMs on vSAN – An end to end view [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI2993BU – The Story of How Deloitte Migrated to vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3000BU – Extreme Performance Series: How To Estimate vSAN Performance [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3041BU – Introducing Scalable File Storage on vSAN with Native File Services [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3104BU – vSAN Hosted POC: The Smoothest and Fastest Way to Test vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3149BU – Conquer Your Storage Demands with vSAN and Intel Technologies [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3291BU – vSAN: Data Placement Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3331BU – Better Storage Utilization with Space Reclamation/UNMAP [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3452BU – Achieving a GDPR-Ready Architecture Leveraging VMware vSAN [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3691PUS – Customer Panel ??? Hyper-converged IT Enabling Agility and Innovation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3695BUS – AutoNation modernizes VMware backup/recovery to accelerate business growth [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3697BUS – Enhance your vSphere and vSAN implementations w/ Persistent Memory and SSDs [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• HCI3707BUS – Infrastructure Matters: From Modernizing Servers to a VMware cloud on HCI [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3781BUS – Cisco HyperConverged Infrastructure for the Multicloud era [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3819QU – Get the Edge on vSAN : Innovating Hyper-Converged Infrastructure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HCI3855BU – How Virtualization & SDDC Help Drive Modernization in Manufacturing [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP2752BU – Our New World: Hyper-Converged and Software Defined [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

IoT (14)

• HYP3822BU – VMware Data Protection Simplicity Meets Power: Converged, Cloud and Beyond [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT1746QU – Can Blockchain Be Used as a Tool to Secure the IoT? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT2593BU – Project Dimension – The Easy Button for Edge Computing [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT2812BU – Design IoT with Security in Mind Using VMware Pulse IoT and NSX [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3165BU – AI in the PaaS Lane: Toshiba and Virtustream Combine AI and Cloud [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• IOT3541BU – Take Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy to the Edge with VMware Solutions [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3549QU – Make Friends with Your OT Department: The Prerequisite to IoT Success [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3550PU – Customers Who Take Control of the Edge with VMware Pulse IoT Solutions [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3553BU – IoT Innovation for Reducing Carbon Footprint in Facilities [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3563BU – Surveillance and IoT Helping Keep the World Safe [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3679BU – Is Your Infrastructure IoT Ready? Dell IoT Technologies is Here to Help [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3680BU – Deploy, Manage, and Get Value from IOT with Microsoft, Dell and VMware [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• IOT3872BUS – FUJITSU Mobility Solutions for Connected Vehicles [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1882PU – Get the Creative Juices Flowing: A Discussion on Enterprise Innovation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Leading Digital Transformation (24)

• CTO3823BU – Kinetic Infrastructure:?? The Journey to a Fully Compassable Datacenter [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1121BU – How an Enterprise Data Warehouse Makeover Transformed VMware???s Business [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1231PU – People Like You: Strategies and Solutions for Government IT Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1252PU – A Fly on the Wall: VMware IT Staff Meeting [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1497BUR – 5 Things Your Boss???s Boss Secretly Wishes You Would Tell Them [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1541BU – Attracting and Retaining Talent via a Technology for Social Good Program [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1758BU – Building a Compelling Business Case for Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1883BU – How Machine Learning and AI Are Transforming VMware???s IT Operations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1895BU – Culture Shift: The Heavy Lifting Behind Digital Transformation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1899BU – Embracing a DevOps Cloud Operational Model for Private Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT1907BU – Achieving Happiness: Building Your Brand and Your Career [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT2188PU – Digital Workspace Transformation Best Practices from the Field [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT2207BU – Destination Digital: Plot a Course for Transformation with Cloud Migration [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT2647PU – Top 7 Considerations IT Leaders Miss in Their Cloud Strategy: 2018 Edition [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT2787PU – Rethinking Financial Services: Adapting to a Digital Economy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3196BU – Top 5 Operational Changes Organizations Overlook When Implementing EUC [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3685BUS – Hybrid IT: HPE???s composable, software-defined, dynamic datacenter vision [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3688BUS – Examining the Best Practices for Executing Your Multi-Cloud Environment [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3698BUS – Building your Enterprise cloud piece by piece [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3700BUS – DR – Protect all of your Workloads & Fight Back Against Cyber Threats [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3708PUS – Is your DR/BC Strategy Keeping Up with Changing Business Needs? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3835BUS – Reimagining the Future of Work in a Mobile First World [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• LDT3919BUS – Expanding your Hybrid IT with VMC on AWS. [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NFV3917PU – AT&T and VMware???s Virtual Cloud Network: Learn how AT&T is using VeloCloud???s SD-WAN and AirWatch [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

NFV (5)

• NFV1307BU – NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud for Service Providers on the vCloud NFV Platform [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NFV1309BU – 5G Readiness: The Importance of Network Slicing & Service Function Chaining [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NFV1315BU – Distributed OpenStack Platform for Telco Use Cases: MEC and PoP [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NFV2220BU – Service Providers Love VMware Integrated OpenStack. Here’s Why [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• NFV2917BU – Breaking the Virtual Speed Limit: Data Plane Performance Tuning [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Office of the CTO (15)

• CTO1189BU – Next-Gen Multi-Cloud Architecture for Machine Learning [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO1875BU – Quantum Supremacy: Basics, Outlook, and Security Implications [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO1901BU – Inside VMware’s Innovation Engine [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO1917BU – Emerging Technologies in the Real World [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• CTO2161BU – Smart Placement of Workloads in Tomorrow’s Distributed Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO2325BU – Network Slicing: Virtual Network and Service Orchestration for 5G and IoT [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO2390BU – Virtualize and Accelerate HPC/Big Data with SR-IOV, vGPU and RDMA [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO2657BU – Evolution of VMware???s Microgrid: The Largest Solar Deployment in Palo Alto [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO2816BU – How Open Source Is Bringing Serverless On Premises [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO2860BU – Persistent Memory Deep Dive: HW and SW Architecture for VMware Technologies [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO3496PU – VMware CTO Panel: What’s Over the Horizon? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO3509BU – Embracing the Edge: Automation, Analytics, and Real-Time Business [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO3584BU – An Introduction to VMware???s Blockchain Technologies [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO3650BU – Choose Optimism [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• CTO3693BUS – Optimize your Virtualized Environment with Hardware Accelerators [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Private Cloud (40)

• PRV1101BU – VxRack SDDC Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1161BU – Compliance for the Public Sector and Private Industry [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1254BU – A Guided Tour of the VMware Cloud Foundation User Experience [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1277BU – Cloud Foundation and Composable Infrastructure: The Best of Both Worlds [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1337BU – VMware Cloud Foundation: Future Innovations [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1424BU – Case Study: Mission-Critical SDDC for the Finance Industry [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1429BU – VMware Cloud Foundation Simplifies Disaster Protection [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1431BU – An Introduction to VMware Validated Designs [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1459BU – Strategies for Workload Mobility with VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1460QU – VMware Enterprise Readiness: SDDC Cross-Product Quality and Interoperability [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1463BU – Building the Ultimate Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1494BU – Path to SDDC Transformation: Western Digital [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1598BU – Cloud Foundation: Reducing Debt and Improving Agility at Xavier University [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1765BU – Advanced Operations for your VMware Cloud Foundation Based Private Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1766BU – Workload Automation in your VMware Cloud Foundation Based Private Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1802BU – Imperative Design Considerations for the Software-Defined Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1889BU – 176 Nodes, No Problem: A Virtual Desktop Story [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1910BU – Building the Modern Data Center: A Supercharged Enterprise SDDC Deployment [NO Stream POSTED] [NO DOWNLOAD POSTED]
  
• PRV1933BUR – VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV1959BU – Building a Successful Business Case with VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2113BU – Quick and Easy Certificate Replacement for VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2121BU – Composable Infrastructure Innovations: Cloud Foundation and HPE Synergy [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2190BU – Using VMware Validated Design with All Flash Array to Deliver a True Private Cloud Experience [STREAM][DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2192QU – SDDC Best Practices: Using VMware Validated Designs and Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2197QU – VxRail and VMware Validated Designs: Chocolate and Peanut Butter? [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2201QU – Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2347BU – What???s New with Cloud Foundation: The Simplest Way to Build a Hybrid Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2369BUS – How to Cut Through Multi-cloud Complexity and Tap into Cloud Value Faster [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2623BU – NSX-T Enabled Workload Domains: The Validated Designs/Cloud Foundation Way [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2747BU – VMware Validated Design for SDDC: Architecture and Design [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2797BU – VMware Validated Design Day Two Operations in Practice [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2911BUR – VMware Validated Designs Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV2925PU – VMware Validated Designs: Ask Us Anything! [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3282PU – Deploying VVD, Success Stories from the Field [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3401BU – Automate Lifecycle Management End-to-End [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3462BU – VMware Validated Designs and Dell VxRail HCI: Better Together [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3670BU – Standardized, Automated and Adaptive: The Future of Private Cloud is Here [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3709BUS – Virtustream Enterprise Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• PRV3916BUS – Lessons Learned: Production Apps using Containers, ElasticSearch and Spark [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2077BU – Context-Aware Micro-Segmentation with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Secure Application Infrastructure (14)

• SAI1133BU – How to Design Multi-layered Security with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI1217BU – How VMware IT uses VMware NSX Data Center Micro-Segmentation [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI1851BU – Securing Horizon and Citrix End-User Computing with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2014PU – Customer Panel on VMware NSX Data Center for Security [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2026BU – Introduction to NSX Data Center for Security [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2335BUS – Enabling Hybrid Cloud Security for NSX and VMWare Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2744BU – VMware NSX Data Center Service Insertion: Advanced Network and Security [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI2789BU – Extend micro-segmentation across virtual and physical with NSX Data Center [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3242PU – VMware AppDefense Customer Success Stories [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3712BUS – Ransomware Threat Recovery Using Rubrik Polaris [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3761BUS – Security & Multi-Tenancy ??? Tips and Best Practices for VMware-based Clouds [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3836BUS – Assure Secure and Successful Deployments of NSX with NETSCOUT Visibility [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI3837BUS – How Carriers Gain Visibility in the Hybrid/Multi-Cloud [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• SAI4777PU – CPU Security Vulnerabilities Q&A Panel [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Security and Experience (17)

• ACC2162PU – Drive Workspace-as-a-Service and Security Transformation with Workspace ONE [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2717BU – Minimize Security Risk and Achieve Zero Trust with Workspace ONE [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC2945BU – Mobile-First Digital Transformation is All About the Apps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• ACC3255BU – Workspace ONE: The Art of the Possible [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• HYP1923BU – Building Hybrid Cloud with Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN1236BU – The Secret Sauce Behind VMware???s Internal Horizon Desktop Deployments [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN2686BU – Amp Up Your VDI Security and Performance with NSX and Horizon [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3048BU – What???s New with Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3100BU – Understand and Leverage the Latest Enhancements with Blast Extreme [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3213BU – Leverage intelligence and monitoring for virtual desktops and apps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3480BU – Beyond Horizon 7: Moving to a Digital Workspace with Workspace ONE [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3483BU – Horizon Cloud on Azure: Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3485BU – Horizon Cloud on Hosted Infrastructure: Technical Deep Dive [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3492BU – JMP: The Easy Button for Delivering and Managing Virtual Desktops and Apps [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3503PU – Customer Panel: What You Need to Know About Deploying VDI [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3523BU – Troubleshooting Your Horizon 7 Deployment [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• WIN3530PU – EUC Champions Panel: Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About VDI [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  

Virtualized Applications (35)

• VAP1088BU – App Failover on VMware Cloud on AWS Protected by LicenseFortress [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1095BU – Virtualizing and Tuning Distributed Application Platforms [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1228PU – vSphere UNIX to Virtual Linux Migration Service: Customer Success Stories [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1263QU – It’s a Data-Driven World: How to Choose Your Right Data Platform [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1296BU – Database Virtualization (Monster VMs) with vSphere 6.5: Doing IT Right [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1360BU – Streamlining Business-Critical Oracle Workloads on a VMware SDDC [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1425BU – Performance Deep Dive for Demanding Virtual Database Servers [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1448BU – Monitoring Business-Critical Applications: Doing It Right [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1454BU – Faster Home Loans on VMware vSphere Mean More Financial Services Revenue [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
• VAP1492BU – Performance of SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP Workloads in VMware Cloud on AWS [STREAM] [DOWNLOAD]
  
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Turning a ‘No’ to a ‘Yes, you can attend’ for VMworld 2018

Posted on June 8, 2018 Updated on June 13, 2018

I’ve been lucky enough to make it to very VMworld since 2008 but it wasn’t always easy getting there. Being the former Phoenix VMUG leader and currently a 7-year VMware employee I’ve come across all types of VMworld tips. In this blog post I’ll share those tips to help turn your No into a Yes.

Setting your goals on VMworld — Okay, so you got the big No from your employer. Normal reasons for a denial are “costs too much”, “value”, or “we can’t afford to have you away”. Fair enough, but the real question should be – how prepared were you to support you ask? Imagine you are the manager and an employee somewhat casually asked you to spend $1000’s to go to an event you may never even heard of. What would your reaction be? Chances are you’d say no too. In this blog post I list out my tips to help enable you to be successful.

#1 Make VMworld your goal and your focus!

Set a goal to attend VMworld – Say it again “Set a GOAL to attend VMworld” Think about it this way — you know VMworld is going to happen, so why not add it to your yearly goals? Even if your company doesn’t have goal planning then start a personal list and think about how to achieve this goal. Next, don’t do this alone. Do you have someone who can help support your goal? Maybe it is a fellow employee, VMware account team, VMware TAM, VMUG leader / Users, and most importantly don’t forget about your partners that support the VMware community. Talk with them, tell them about your goals and the reasons why you want to achieve them, see how they can help support you. Finally, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Are other employees successful in going to training, conferences, or events? Clearly, they are successful with their requests, so why not work with them on your goals and find new ways to be successful.

Keep this in mind “We achieve what we focus on the most”. If getting to VMworld was easy for everyone then I wouldn’t be writing this blog post. If you are being turned down year after year, you might consider a change of focus. Your focus should be known but not annoying. In other words, let others know that VMware and getting to VMworld is what you are passionate about. Let them know how VMware technologies help innovate your company, how it reduces downtime, how it makes you all more secure, etc. etc. By letting others know and understand your passion you’ll go from the person asking to go, to your VMware thought leader and soon management will be coming to you telling you to go to VMworld vs. you asking to go.

Getting past the “Cost”

Having your employer pick of the tab can be a challenge. Your plan should include the total cost to attend, how you plan to fund it, and keep in mind this cost can be quite high for some companies on a tight budget. My suggestion is if you are getting the big ‘No’ due to costs then work with your company around the total costs. First find out why it’s a ‘No’ and look for opportunities to overcome this, then use my tips below to enhance your plan. In general, your fist challenges in subsidizing cost maybe your company’s policy around accepting gifts. Understand this policy well, don’t just take someone’s word as there maybe ways to accept gifts under specific circumstances. Read the current policy and ask the policy writers questions to better understand it. Explore your company – Talk with your travel department or even HR/Benefits around funding sources as there maybe programs to help employees with Education and events. Point is, ask and explore you never know what you will find and be able to achieve.

How do I get a free VMworld Pass aka the Golden Ticket?

This can be your biggest challenge. However here are some ways to get your hands on one.

• Give-a-ways
  • I can’t tell you how many vendors do an annual giveaways contests — hit them early, often, and enter as many as you can find
  • Tips-
    • When you enter, find out who your local vendor contact is and let them know you entered then stay in contact with them all year long and then some
    • Keep in mind not all contests are the same, some are based on random drawing and others are not. This is why I say keep in contact with the vendor.
    • How do I find give-a-ways >> Google ‘VMworld getting there for free’ or ‘VMworld contest’, Look on Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media platforms
• Get the word out
  • Tell your boss, workmates, vendors, partners, use twitter, linked in etc. and Repeat again and again. By doing this you let others know about your strong interest in getting there, in turn they might get a lead for you.
  • Most importantly, reach out to your local VMUG leader and ask them for tips in your area. They are usually well connected and might have a lead for you as well.
  • Follow Twitter and Linked In – You never know who is going to post up “I have a pass, I cannot go, and need to give it to someone” This is pretty common just before the event and yes you can transfer a pass to someone.
    • New to Twitter, need contacts? It’s simple find the #VMworld hastag, see who is posting to it and start following them. Then look at all their contacts and follow them too, soon you’ll have a gaggle of folks
  • This sounds like work why do all this? Simple, distributed coverage model. The more people who know the more likely they are to help and in turn the more likely you’ll succeed
• Don’t forgo an Expo-Only or Solutions Exchange Pass
  • If you get offered this pass take it. I can’t tell you how many vendors have these passes and cannot give them away, seriously this is gold but folks don’t know how to leverage them.
  • First off this pass has great value, there is a TON of value here. See the current VMworld Pass features for more information but normally you can get into the larger Sessions and the Solutions Exchange
  • Second this pass can get you on to the Solutions Exchange floor where all the vendors and partners are.
    • Once there start talking to all the vendors, fellow attendees, all those folks you meet on twitter, etc. as you never know who has a full pass they couldn’t get rid of, take it and upgrade yours
  • Third while you are there with an Expo Pass use Twitter and the VMworld hash tags to let folks know you’re here and you are looking for a full pass.
  • Stop by the VMUG booth on the Expo floor, you never know who will be there and you never know users there might be able to help you
• Vendors and Partners
  • Find out who is sponsoring VMworld this year, and then…
    • Start calling the ones you know well, ask them for support getting there
    • Don’t forget to call the ones you don’t know so well too
    • If you have deal on the table with a vendor coming up, inquire if they can put passes in the deal.

What about Food, Hotel, and Travel Costs?

• Food
  • There will be free food everywhere, in-fact feel free to give some to the homeless I usually do.
  • If you get a pass then lunch and usually breakfast are included but check the schedule
  • For dinner, find out where the nightly vendor events are as they usually have food
  • Talk with Vendors they might take you out, you never know
• Hotel
  • Ask a Vendor to pay for just the room or ask them to gift hotel points to you
  • Room Share with someone at the event << Think about it, you won’t be in the room that often and chances are from 7AM till 10PM you’ll be out of your room
  • Use Travel sites to cut down the cost
    • Secret Hotels:
      • San Fran try the Best Western Carriage Inn and The Mosser
      • Las Vegas there are lots of options but try Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel (usually very quiet not a casino) or The Westin Las Vegas Hotel & Spa
  • Use your Hotel or other travel points to book the hotel for free
  • Get a low cost hotel away from the event, but watch your travel costs
• Travel
  • Airfare
    • Ask a vendor to pay for just the airfare, or maybe they have points they can gift you
    • Use your own travel points to pay for this
  • Rideshare to the event
    • See if one of your connections are driving to the event, offer to split fuel costs
    • You drive someone to the event, and they pick up the hotel or vise versa
  • Local Travel
    • Use the following –
      • VMworld Shuttle
      • Bus
      • Uber
      • BART
    • Once again hit up those vendors, they might have a way to get you around for free

Finally here is a breakdown of how I got to so many events and how/who paid for it….

Summing it up…

My take is, if you REALLY want to go you’ll get there but sometimes it takes effort to do so and if you do it right it might not cost you a thing. Don’t let anything stop you and find your way there.

Finally, after you’ve been to the event don’t forget about the folks who got you there and say ‘Thank you’. Then over the next year continue to build these relationship as you never know if you’ll need help again, or you want to help someone else get there.

Best of luck and do reach out with suggestions, comments, or great stories around how you got there!

If you like my ‘no-nonsense’ blog articles that get straight to the point… then post a comment or let me know… Else, I’ll start writing boring blog content.