Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add ControlUp to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is ControlUp.  ControlUp offers a powerful, yet easy-to-use ITOps analytics and management platform.  ControlUp helps ITOps teams to monitor, analyze and directly remediate problems in their on-premises, hybrid cloud and cloud infrastructures.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with ControlUp to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event. 

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Bitdefender to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is Bitdefender.  VMblog recently spoke with Bitdefender at Citrix Synergy 2017.  VMware users are going to want to see and learn more about GravityZone Datacenter Security while at VMworld.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Bitdefender to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add ThinPrint to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is ThinPrint.  You will want to visit with ThinPrint experts to discuss the features and benefits that ThinPrint brings to VDI, mobile, cloud and local workstation environments.  Visit them to find out how ThinPrint optimizes printing and lowers costs, allowing users to print successfully and securely every time.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with ThinPrint to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Pluribus Networks to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is Pluribus Networks.  The company is empowering high-performance enterprise organizations to build scalable network fabric for simplifying the Software-Defined Data Center. With its simple, dynamic and secure Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture, enabling organizations to build scalable private and public clouds that improve service velocity, performance, and reliability.  

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Pluribus Networks to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event. 

In case you hadn't heard yet, another exciting event is happening at VMworld US 2017.  Two of the Godfathers of Virtualization will both be in attendance at this upcoming show.

Bromium co-founders, Ian Pratt and Simon Crosby, are both taking the virtualization pilgrimage to Las Vegas this year.  Ian and Simon are considered Godfathers of Virtualization for their extensive work done in the hypervisor world with the launching of a little project called The Xen Project which had its debut back in 2003.  Xen was originally supported by XenSource which later sold to Citrix in October of 2007.  A few years later, the pair decided to stretch their proverbial entrepreneur legs and leave Citrix to launch a new company called Bromium to address the intersection of security and virtualization. 

Engineered for the software-defined datacenter, GravityZone is an award-winning datacenter security platform that delivers best-in-class adaptive layered defenses while facilitating IT agility, operational efficiency and infrastructure cost containment.
The only security solution on the market certified as VMware NSX Ready for both Windows and Linux, GravityZone tightly integrates with the VMware suite, providing agentless or hypervisor-agnostic featherweight agent-based protection and automating provisioning, deployment and orchestration of security services. The video series “Securing VMware NSX Environments with Bitdefender GravityZone Datacenter Security” demonstrates the joint solution in action.”

To learn more about GravityZone, visit www.bitdefender.com/sve

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Pivot3 to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is Pivot3. Visit them at VMworld and find out more about the company's dynamic hyperconverged solutions.  Pivot3's patented solutions improve data center simplicity and economics by increasing scale-out performance, driving down complexity and cost, saving an extraordinary amount of disk and physical space and ensuring fault tolerance. With Pivot3's unique Quality of Service and Virtualization Management capabilities, customers are able to prioritize data and application performance based on business value. 

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Pivot3 to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Key Tips for VMworld 2017 - A Survival Guide

In less than two weeks, somewhere north of 23,000 virtualization and cloud users are expected to converge on the streets of Sin City to take part in the annual virtualization reunion known as VMworld.

VMworld US 2017 begins on Aug. 27th, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV and the show returns to the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center.  The event will feature more than 500 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers, and the expo hall will be packed by more than 200 vendor sponsors and exhibitors.  

As the show is nearly upon us, VMblog would like to send out its "survival guide" for those first time attendees or those individuals who might just want a refresher.  Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your VMworld event a little bit more successful or enjoyable.  

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Let's begin!