For those of you who might be interested in submitting an application to speak at this year's VMworld in Los Angeles, time is running out to make that submission.
The call for presentations closes at midnight on April 30th, so complete and submit your application soon.
VMware is interested in your story. They are looking for submissions that offer VMworld attendees an extensive curriculum with practical training, knowledge enhancement and interactive sessions led by experts. Applicants will be notified in mid-June 2006 on the status of the proposal.
Quoting from VMware:
CRITERIA
WHAT ATTENDEES WANT
VMworld attendees are technically savvy and very experienced with VMware products. Attendee surveys indicate most of them want sessions that deepen their practical knowledge, including best practices and solutions. Popular sessions may even include script samples or demos that show how to apply VMware technology to real-world projects. We are especially interested in presentations that are rich in technical detail and enhance attendees' knowledge of how to assess, plan, build, and manage their VMware virtual infrastructure.
SPEAKER SELECTION
Speakers are selected on the basis of subject interest, suitability, topicality, and quality of the abstract submitted, and the speaker’s presentation experience. Selection of presentations are made by the Speaker Selection Committee, whose decision is final.
Speaker Selection for VMware Customers
Customer presentations should explore real-life applications of VMware’s products and show how your company has used virtualization technology to solve pressing IT and business challenges. Attendees are interested in sessions that delve into the building blocks of a solution; they want to know what technical challenges you have faced and details of the elegant ways you solved them.
If you have a good story to tell and you’re willing to build a presentation that goes into the nuts and bolts of your solution, please consider submitting a proposal. If your presentation is accepted, in exchange for your time and effort you will receive free conference registration, up to three nights’ lodging at the event, and your presentation will be published in VMworld 2006 conference materials.
Speaker Selection for VMware Partners
Partner presentations should explore how the integration or inter-connection of VMware’s products with third-party hardware and software offerings helps customers solve pressing IT and business challenges. VMworld attendees have little patience with marketing spin and high-level presentations, but if your solution set combines well with VMware’s to create solid business value please consider submitting a proposal.
Speaker Selection for VMware Employees
Members of the Technical Staff, product managers, product marketers, technical trainers, and sales engineers are encouraged to submit a proposal. You need your manager’s approval for your participation before your session can be accepted.
TOPICS
FOR CUSTOMERS
Session proposals should explain in some depth the actual hardware, networking, and software setup of your solution, the technical and corporate challenges you had to resolve, and the unique elements of the solution you developed. Sample topics might include:
- “Operationalizing” VMware: taking VMware from the test lab to the full enterprise
- High availability, business continuity, disaster recovery
- Datacenter server consolidation and containment
- Virtual infrastructure network architecture
- Virtual infrastructure storage architecture
- Design considerations for VMotion networks
- Virtualization in Software development and QA
- Topics in utility computing with virtual infrastructure
- Determining good targets for virtualization and planning virtual infrastructure: capacity, consolidation, and containment
- Managing virtual infrastructure
- Enterprise and remote desktop solutions with VMware
- Hosted desktop solutions with VMware ESX Server
- Application or operating system migration in a virtualized environment
- Remote office/branch office solutions
- Security solutions
- Training and educational solutions
- Streamlining upgrades and integration of production applications
FOR VMWARE PARTNERS AND CONSULTANTS
Session proposals should explain in some depth the actual hardware, networking, and software setup of your solution, the technical and corporate challenges addressed by your solution, and its unique or competitive elements. Sample topics might include:
- Best Practices for deploying your solutions in a virtual environment
- Server and storage virtualization: best practices
- Monitoring virtual infrastructure with your solution
- Best practices for deploying virtual infrastructure on your hardware
- Virtualization in a multi-core environment
- Your solution for server consolidation/containment in a virtual environment
- Your solution for business continuity in a virtual environment
- Your solution for test/development in a virtual environment
- Your solution and enterprise desktop management in a virtual environment
- Attributing costs in a virtual environment
FOR VMWARE EMPLOYEES
Employee presentations can cover a wide range of topics specific to VMware products, services, and solutions. Topic areas might include:
- VMware product architecture
- Tips and tricks or best practices
- Business topics in virtualization (e.g. calculating ROI, capacity planning, using virtualization to match IT resources to business needs)
- Solutions using VMware software