Events & Webinars

With just a few days to VMware’s premier digital infrastructure event in Europe, we’ve gathered some of the elite speakers who will be taking the stage to debate the hottest solutions, trends and the biggest opportunities and challenges for businesses to successfully embrace digital change.

• Innovation Through Digital Transformation
• The Future of Data Centres and Cloud in a Virtualized World
• Securing Your Cloud Networks
• Next-Gen Trends and Technologies

Join this session to get a glimpse of the innovations that will accelerate your journey to a software-defined business—from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud!

Presenter:

• Dave Welch, CTO & Chief Evangelist – House of Brick

Join us as we explore the options available to cloud users for ensuring High Availability (HA) in the cloud. Our discussion will include both native cloud options and Microsoft offerings on top of the cloud stack.

As your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) needs increasing, so do your HA needs. So let’s look at your options and examine best practices and how they can be applied to your environment.

Presenter:

• Phil Ekins, Principal Architect

(Alternate Title: Running Oracle in VMware Cloud on AWS)

Join VMware and House of Brick and discover why customers are choosing to run Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS. In this webinar, you will learn about overview of VMware Cloud on AWS, architectural considerations while migrating Oracle workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, performance of these migrations, Oracle licensing options on VMware Cloud on AWS, TCO implications, customer use cases and case studies, what’s new in VMware Cloud on AWS and how to get started using this service. Time will be reserved at the end for questions and answers.

Presenters:

• Nathan Biggs & Nick Walter – House of Brick
• Sai Gopalan – VMware

The process of establishing performance benchmarks and baselines is invaluable when it comes to understanding the health of your environment, and becomes even more crucial when dealing with business critical systems. In this session we will provide further insights regarding the importance of effective monitoring and metrics and how they can help you respond proactively to performance issues. We will also discuss best practices for monitoring and metrics as related to physical and virtual servers, storage, and databases.

You’ll leave with a better understanding of key considerations for determining performance baselines and benchmarks; the various categories of metrics and monitoring tools; a list of recommended reports, tools, and software; and best practices for gaining insights into the performance of your business critical systems.

Presenters:

• Jonas Mason, Principal Architect – House of Brick
• Jim Hannan, Principal Architect – House of Brick

VMware Cloud on AWS offers a simple and effective cloud migration path for organizations already leveraging the strengths of VMware vSphere. For business-critical Oracle workloads, such a migration combines the performance and flexibility of AWS with the flexibility and power of vSphere. Join this session to learn about the challenges and solutions for moving single instance or clustered (RAC) Oracle workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS. Explore the different considerations for single instance vs. clustered workloads, as well as the licensing and support implications of running Oracle in VMware Cloud on AWS. In addition, you will hear success stories and get practical tips that your organization can use to avoid common pitfalls when planning your own cloud migration.

Watch the VMworld US recording (VMworld login required)

Presenters:

• Mike Stone, CIO & Lead Architect – House of Brick
• Bryan Wood, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS