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Monday, August 25, 2025
9:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
9:30
RANSOMWARE PROTECTION – BUILT-IN FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES
Rahul Sharma
Principal Solutions Architect
Learn how NetApp delivers most comprehensive security features to protect your virtual environment using our native ransomware detection capabilities. Available for both file and block based environments.
10:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
10:30
INTRODUCTION TO NETAPP ALL SAN ARRAY (ASA)
Ken Jeras
Senior Solutions Architect
Overview of NetApp ASA, including new features such as autonomous ransomware protection (ARP) and foreign LUN import. We'll showcase the ease of setting up with a demo
11:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
11:30
DRIVING CLOUD COST EFFICIENCY WITH FLEXIBLE SERVICE LEVEL (FSL) ON AVS AND ANF
Richard Crofford
ANF Technical Marketing Engineer
Cost management remains a top priority for organizations moving workloads to the cloud. This session will delve into how Flexible Service Level (FSL) with AVS and ANF can reduce operational costs while maintaining performance and scalability. Real-world customer examples will illustrate how these solutions help achieve financial control without compromising on technical capability.
12:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
12:30
GOOGLE CLOUD VMWARE ENGINE + NETAPP:
SUPERCHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE
Fabian Duarte
Associate CTO, SATA
Google Cloud VMware Engine and NetApp storage solutions come together to create robust infrastructure. Learn how this powerful combination comes together smoothly for your optimized infrastructure modernization journey to Google Cloud.
1:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
1:30
ONTAP FOR VCF PRIVATE CLOUD
Suresh Thoppay
Technical Marketing Engineer
Utilize ONTAP features to provide high availability services to your clients. This session talks about designing availability zones for VCF Private Cloud.
2:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
2:30
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
3:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
3:30
VMWARE OPTIMIZATION WITH NETAPP
Rahul Sharma
Principal Solutions Architect
Comprehensive look at NetApp optimization capabilities for your VMware environment using NetApp Data Infrastructure Insight and NetApp Virtual Machine Data Collector (VMDC).
4:00
VVOLS - WHAT'S NEXT?
Dan BarberSenior Solutions Architect
With the deprecation of vVols announced for VCF 9, how will you replace these storage capabilities? We'll cover the various options you have and the NetApp advantage for leveraging your data any way you want.
4:30
AMAZON FSx FOR NETAPP ONTAP WITH AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS): BETTER TOGETHER
Trevor Thompson
Cloud Solutions Archtect
Explore how Amazon FSx for ONTAP enhances Amazon EVS, helping modernize VMware environments, enabling scalable, high performance and cost-efficient storage .
5:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
5:30
AFFORDABLE DR PROTECTION WITH NETAPP
Glenn Sizemore
Principal Product Manager
BlueXP Disaster Recovery provides affordable disaster recovery protection for VMware workloads. In this short demo, learn how you can reduce costs while maintaining the highest levels of protection and disaster readiness both on premises and in the cloud.
6:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
6:30
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
10:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
10:30
AUTOMATE STORAGE OPERATIONS WITH VCF 9
Suresh Thoppay
Technical Marketing Engineer
Increase your knowledge on VM and Container storage provisioning in VCF environment. Learn about the tools available to automate storage provisioning tasks
11:00
DRIVING CLOUD COST EFFICIENCY WITH FLEXIBLE SERVICE LEVEL (FSL) ON AVS AND ANF
Carl Solazzo
Principal Solution Enigineer Microsoft
Cost management remains a top priority for organizations moving workloads to the cloud. This session will delve into how Flexible Service Level (FSL) with AVS and ANF can reduce operational costs while maintaining performance and scalability. Real-world customer examples will illustrate how these solutions help achieve financial control without compromising on technical capability.
11:30
VMWARE MIGRATIONS SIMPLIFIED WITH GOOGLE CLOUD
Nick Cassimatis
Specialist Sales Engineer
Google Cloud
Migrating data-intensive workloads to the cloud doesn't have to be complex or daunting anymore. Join us to learn how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes can simplify your migration journey, while providing you with file and block capabilities to "lift and shift" mission-critical VMware workloads
12:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
12:30
AFFORDABLE DR PROTECTION WITH NETAPP
Glenn Sizemore
Principal Product Manager
BlueXP Disaster Recovery provides affordable disaster recovery protection for VMware workloads. In this short demo, learn how you can reduce costs while maintaining the highest levels of protection and disaster readiness both on premises and in the cloud.
1:00
RESILIENT DISASTER RECOVERY WITH JETSTREAM + ANF/AVS
Richard Crofford - ANF Technical Marketing Engineer
In this session, discover how to leverage Jetstream with Azure NetApp Files (ANF) and Azure VMware Solution (AVS) to create a robust disaster recovery plan. Through a live demonstration, see how seamless failover and protection can minimize downtime for critical databases and applications, solving the persistent customer challenge of data loss and business disruption.
1:30
VMWARE OPTIMIZATION WITH NETAPP
Rahul Sharma
Principal Solutions Architect
Comprehensive look at NetApp optimization capabilities for your VMware environment using NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights and NetApp Virtual Machine Data Collector (VMDC).
2:00
AMAZON EVS AND FSx FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Jim White
FSx for NetApp ONTAP
GTM Leader
Hear about Amazon AVS and the benefits it brings running on FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
2:30
UNLOCKING FLEXIBILITY: GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR GOOGLE CLOUD VMWARE ENGINE
Dean Steadman
Manager Product Management
This session spotlights the transformative benefits of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes for VMware Engine, with a special focus on flexible storage scalability, advanced storage capabilities, and cost efficiency. Attendees will learn how NetApp Volumes offers seamless, high-performance storage that automatically scales to meet changing demands, allowing organizations to adapt quickly and efficiently without costly overprovisioning.
3:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
3:30
EASY VMWARE DATA & RANSOMWARE PROTECTION USING SNAPCENTER FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
Ken Jeras
Senior Solutions Architect
Overview of NetApp SnapCenter for VMware vSphere with a live demo of backup and recovery using LOD
4:00
WHY AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP IS A MUST-HAVE FOR STORAGE-BOUND AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE DEPLOYMENTS
Ken Nalbone
Principal Solutions Engineer
AHEAD
Hear directly from AHEAD, one of the few partners invited to preview Amazon EVS as they share real-world insights from their testing of Amazon EVS, and why they recommend adding Amazon FSx for ONTAP. AHEAD is a leading strategic consulting, solution provider, and managed services company, that was selected to take part of the gated preview of Amazon EVS.
4:30
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
9:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
9:30
OPTIMIZE VMWARE CLOUD WITH NETAPP
Rahul Sharma
Principal Solutions Architect
An update on NetApp capabilities to optimize VMware cloud deployment across the 3 hyperscalers, you no longer need to restrict yourself to the local vSAN capacity. ONTAP with its 1P and 3P services extends the storage for VMware cloud.
10:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
10:30
OPTIMIZE VMWARE WORKLOADS ON AWS WITH FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP AND REDUCE TCO BY UP TO 50%
Richard Nicholl
Trevor Thompson
Learn how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides scalable, high-performance storage for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling independent scaling of storage to optimize costs and reduce TCO by up to 50%. An added benefit—fewer compute cores are needed, lowering core-based licensing costs and improving overall efficiency.
11:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
11:30
INTRODUCTION TO NETAPP ALL SAN ARRAY (ASA)
Overview of NetApp ASA, including new features such as autonomous ransomware protection (ARP) and foreign LUN import.We'll showcase the ease of setting up with a demo
Ken Jeras
Senior Solutions Architect
12:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
12:30
VMWARE ON FLEXPOD CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
FlexPod, a joint solution developed by Cisco and NetApp, provides a validated data center platform that combines compute, networking, and Data management layer from NetApp into a single, flexible architecture. This integration offers simplified management, enhanced operational efficiency, and streamlined provisioning of virtual machines, while ensuring high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities. We will cover the Cisco Live NOC use case to show how customers can confidently run mission critical enterprise workloads.
Bobby Oommen
Sr Manager FlexPod Solutions
1:00
DATASTORE STORAGE OPTIONS WITH AMAZON FSx FOR NETAPP ONTAP ON AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS)
Get a clear view of the underlying architectures of the supported datastore types for Amazon EVS - from NFS to iSCSI to guest mounted storage for VMs running in Amazon FSx for ONTAP.
Ben Lipman
Sr Specialist Solutions Architect VMware on AWS
1:30
DRIVING CLOUD COST EFFICIENCY WITH FLEXIBLE SERVICE LEVEL (FSL) ON AVS AND ANF
Cost management remains a top priority for organizations moving workloads to the cloud. This session will delve into how Flexible Service Level (FSL) with AVS and ANF can reduce operational costs while maintaining performance and scalability. Real-world customer examples will illustrate how these solutions help achieve financial control without compromising on technical capability.
Greg Earl
Technical Solutions Professional
2:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
2:30
ONTAP FOR VCF PRIVATE CLOUD
Utilize ONTAP features to provide high availability services to your clients. This session talks about designing availability zones for VCF Private Cloud.
Suresh Thoppay
Technical Marketing Engineer
3:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
3:30
MAKING STORAGE EASIER WITH ONTAP TOOLS FOR VMWARE
Overview and demo of the virtual storage console with ONTAP tools for VMware. We'll cover, monitoring storage systems, creating, expanding, and removing datastores.
Ken Jeras
Senior Solutions Architect
4:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
4:30
ADDING AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP TO AMAZON EVS: AN IT SERVICE CONSULTANT'S PERSPECTIVE
Join as Pellera, a global IT and cloud solutions provider part of the gated-preview of Amazon EVS, shares their perspective on the benefits of adding Amazon FSx as an external datastore beyond decoupling of storage from compute.
BJ Schwein
Cloud Solution Architect VMware Cloud | Pellera
5:00
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
5:30
CONFIDENTLY OPTIMIZE VMWARE WITH NETAPP
Join this brief interactive quiz for a chance to have fun and win prizes! We'll show you why can have full confidence that NetApp brings you the best value, performance, and security for your VMware workloads.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Speakers
Date Monday, Aug 25th | Time 11:00am PST | Google Cloud Booth
UNLOCKING FLEXIBILITY: GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR VMWARE ENGINE
The session will explore NetApp Volumes’ superior feature set, including integrated backup, disaster recovery, and robust security, delivering enterprise-grade reliability tailored for mission-critical workloads. This session is essential for IT leaders and architects seeking scalable, feature-rich, and budget-friendly cloud solutions.
Dean Steadman
Manager Product Management
Date Monday, Aug 25th | Time 11:30am PST | Level 3, Lido 3103
UNLOCK THE POWER OF DATA WITH NETAPP AND VMWARE CLOUD FOUNDATION
In this session, learn how NetApp ONTAP, the only NSA-certified secure storage, integrates with VMware Cloud Foundation® 9.0 to revolutionize your private, public, or hybrid cloud data management strategies. Discover how NetApp enables a smooth transition for those moving away from vVols and how to transform your storage into an intelligent data infrastructure. You will also see why ONTAP is the choice of tens of thousands of organizations for their VMware deployments and why Gartner endorses NetApp as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage Platforms.
Chance Bingen, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
NetApp
Date Monday, Aug 25th | Time 6:30pm PST | AWS Booth 109
AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP WITH AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS): BETTER TOGETHER
Explore how Amazon FSx for ONTAP enhances Amazon EVS, helping modernize VMware environments, enabling scalable, high performance and cost-efficient storage
Richard Nicholl
Trevor Thompson
Date Tuesday, Aug 26th | Time 1:00pm PST | Google Cloud Booth
UNLOCKING FLEXIBILITY: GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR VMWARE ENGINE
The session will explore NetApp Volumes’ superior feature set, including integrated backup, disaster recovery, and robust security, delivering enterprise-grade reliability tailored for mission-critical workloads. This session is essential for IT leaders and architects seeking scalable, feature-rich, and budget-friendly cloud solutions.
Dean Steadman
Manager Product Management
Date Tuesday, Aug 26th | Time 4:00pm PST | AWS Booth 109
AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP WITH AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS): BETTER TOGETHER
Explore how Amazon FSx for ONTAP enhances Amazon EVS, helping modernize VMware environments, enabling scalable, high performance and cost-efficient storage
Richard Nicholl
Trevor Thompson
Date Wednesday, Aug 27th | Time 10:30am PST | AWS Booth 109
AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP WITH AMAZON ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS): BETTER TOGETHER
Explore how Amazon FSx for ONTAP enhances Amazon EVS, helping modernize VMware environments, enabling scalable, high performance and cost-efficient storage
Richard Nicholl
Trevor Thompson
Date Wednesday, Aug 27th | Time 1:00pm PST | Google Cloud Booth
UNLOCKING FLEXIBILITY: GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR VMWARE ENGINE
The session will explore NetApp Volumes’ superior feature set, including integrated backup, disaster recovery, and robust security, delivering enterprise-grade reliability tailored for mission-critical workloads. This session is essential for IT leaders and architects seeking scalable, feature-rich, and budget-friendly cloud solutions.
Dean Steadman
Manager Product Management
