October 15th Meeting at Junior Achievement – Wisconsin VMware User Group

Join us for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019.

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Meeting Agenda

8:15 Registration
8:45 Welcome: by Nathan Scheunemann, WI-VMUG Co-Leader (@chickendilla)
9:00 VMware Presentation: VMworld 2019 Recap by Nathan Hudson, Senior Solutions Engineer, Office of the CTO Ambassador at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n) and Brandon Hahn, Senior Technical Account Manager at VMware (@brandonhahn)
9:50 Break
10:00 Presentation: vSphere Virtual Volumes Deep Dive by Ryan Blundon, Systems Engineer at Pure Storage (@StorageGuyMKE) – The benefits of traditional data center architecture with the simplicity of HCI
10:50 Break
11:00 Community Presentation: vSphere Administration Tips, Tricks, and Tools byAnthony Hook, VMware Practice Lead at Hartland Business Systems (@anthonyrhook)

11:50 Lunch
12:30 VMware Presentation: vSphere Platinum & Active Directory: Better Security Together by Bob Plankers, Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud Platform at VMware (@plankers) – Microsoft Active Directory forms the core of many organizations’ authentication and authorization infrastructure, as well as providing DNS, DHCP, and certificate services. This makes it an extremely high-value target for attackers. This session will cover the ways in which vSphere makes it easy to add enterprise-grade security to Active Directory, using AppDefense, VM encryption, Microsoft Credential Guard, and more.
1:20 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A

Nathan Hudson Senior Solutions Engineer, Office of the CTO Ambassador at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n)
Brandon Hahn, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware (@brandonhahn)
Ryan Blundon, Systems Engineer at Pure Storage (@StorageGuyMKE)
Bob Plankers, Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud Platform at VMware (@plankers)
WI-VMUG Leadership Team
1:50 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings