Key Tips for Surviving and Thriving at VMworld 2019

In only a few short weeks from now, 21k+ virtualization and cloud users will embark on their annual pilgrimage to what has become known as a reunion of friends and fellow virtualization geeks, an event called VMworld.

VMworld US 2019 begins on Aug. 25th, 2019 and continues through August 29th.  The event will feature hundreds of unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners, customers and industry experts; and the Solutions Exchange will be packed by more than 230 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 on some of what's to come.  Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your VMworld 2019 event a little bit more successful or enjoyable.  

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Let's begin!

Are you attending VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA?  If so, I invite you to add Zerto 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?  That's easy, Zerto is a no brainer to get added to your list, for a number of reasons.  VMblog has been following Zerto from the beginning.  And now, with their IT Resilience Platform, they are providing customers with an all-in-one converged disaster recovery and backup platform that enables digital transformation, reduces downtime and data loss, and helps businesses move workloads seamlessly across clouds or datacenters.  They have their own event called ZertoCon which is loaded with information, but I expect them to take VMworld by storm like they have done for so many years.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Caroline Seymour, VP of Product Marketing at Zerto, to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2019 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA?  If so, I invite you to add Datrium 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?  Last year at VMworld 2018, we met up with the team from Datrium, but we are extremely excited to visit them one year later to see what's new.  Datrium has created a secure multicloud data platform that natively converges primary, backup, disaster recovery, mobility and encryption into a single platform.  Deployed as split provisioned storage or software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Datrium’s Automatrix platform makes information available between public clouds and on-premises data centers.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Datrium to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2019 event.

Zadara Storage Inc., a pioneer in enterprise storage-as-a-service, today announced the launch of their Zadara Service Provider (ZSP) program. The full-featured program expands business opportunities for channel partners and enables them to offer simplified enterprise storage-as-a-service. Zadara solutions help partners avoid the complexities inherent in competitive offerings from legacy providers - while offering rich margins of 30% and more.

On the heels of a record-setting growth quarter, Morpheus Data announces major updates to its leading cloud management platform.  New capabilities are focused on providing customers more freedom and faster deployment in the competitive world of multi-cloud and container automation.

Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, today announced results from Q2 2019. Having recently exceeded $1 billion in annual bookings, joining an elite group of software leaders, Veeam's annual recurring revenue (ARR) increased 26 percent year-over-year (YoY) in Q2 2019, a testament to the success of a unique subscription pricing model introduced earlier this year for all new Veeam products, including new Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. Hailed as one of the most important releases in Veeam company history, Veeam Availability Suite U4 is approaching 350,000 downloads since its release in January.

ThinPrint, the specialist for optimized printing processes in virtual environments, is adding a central management console to its successful ThinPrint Hub, the industry's solution to managing printers in branch and remote offices. The ThinPrint Hub Remote Management Console was developed in partnership with Stratodesk, the only hardware-independent provider of endpoint operating systems and management solutions for VDI and Internet of Things (IoT).

ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-first detection and response for the hybrid enterprise, today issued a security advisory exposing several cases of third-party vendors "phoning home" proprietary data without the knowledge of or authorization from their customers. The advisory serves as a warning to all enterprises to hold their vendors more accountable for how they use customer data.

Are you attending VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA?  If so, I invite you to add NAKIVO 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?  The team from VMblog is really looking forward to meeting the team from NAKIVO this year.  Why?  NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments, including local and offsite VM backup and replication, support for live applications and databases, instant granular recovery, network acceleration, global data deduplication, Web UI, AES-256 encryption, advanced reporting, and cloud support. They also offer a VM Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), Replication-as-a-Service (RaaS), and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution for cloud and service providers.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Veniamin Simonov, Director of Product Management at NAKIVO to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2019 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA?  If so, I invite you to add Hitachi Vantara 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?  The team from VMblog is really looking forward to meeting the team from Hitachi this year.  They provide decades of experience in accelerating digital transformation, which helps them innovate and design solutions that accelerate cloud strategy and realize the full benefits of DataOps.  They are analytics, industrial expertise, technology and outcomes rolled into one great solution partner. 

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Hitachi to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2019 event.