Design and Architect: Designing VCF 9.1 Private Cloud Fleet

Jared Burns, R&D Applications Engineer, VCF, Broadcom

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces architectural enhancements that impact how modern private clouds are built and managed. This session will provide an overview of the revamped VCF 9.1 architecture and dive into new constructs such as a VCF Fleet and its capabilities that will allow you to modernize your data center, enhance automation, and drive business agility. This session is designed for IT professionals, cloud architects, and decision-makers who want to understand VCF 9.1’s transformative architecture and how best to design for a modern private cloud.

What's New in vSphere 9.1: Features That Actually Matter

Dave Morera, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, Broadcom

Cut through the marketing and get the practitioner's view of vSphere 9.1's most impactful capabilities. This session covers what's new, what's improved, and what you need to know to leverage these features in your environment. We'll focus on practical use cases including performance improvements, operational simplifications, and cost optimization features you can implement immediately. Learn what's new, how it works, and when you should adopt it—with practitioner perspective included.

Defending Against AI-Powered Threats with VCF 9.1

John Nicholson, Product Marketing Engineer, Broadcom

Attackers are using AI to find vulnerabilities faster, chain them together, and automate entire attack sequences, compressing timelines so that disclosed CVEs are weaponized in hours while enterprise change windows are still measured in weeks. This session cuts through the AI hype to focus on what defenders can do about it. We will look at how AI is changing attacker speed and economics, then cover four practical defensive priorities in VMware Cloud Foundation: hardening identity infrastructure, limiting lateral movement with network access controls, seeing what attackers are doing through logging and detection, and de-risking patching so you can move at a speed that matches the threat. You will leave with specific steps that work against AI-assisted attackers and the traditional kind alike.

VMware Application Networking & Security Ask Me Anything

Chris McCain, Global Field CTO, ANS, Broadcom

Nathan McMahon, Technology Product Management, Broadcom

Come join this 30 minute, no holds-barred ASK ME ANYTHING session with experts on VMware AVI and VMware vDefend. This is your chance to get up close and personal with subject matter experts that spend their time helping customers understand, install, manage and troubleshoot AVI and vDefend. If they don't know the answer they will get it, but that's not very likely. Don't miss this quick hit session that is customized for you and your questions.

So You Just Got Told it's Time to Move to a New Datacenter. What Now?

Dave Bradley, Senior Cloud Engineer, Vizient Inc
What do you do when you are told to move a data center in six months? This session shares a real-world case study of relocating active workloads between data centers hundreds of miles apart while managing and consolidating multiple VMware vCenter® solutions, nearly 200 hosts, storage, backups, network changes, licensing, and tight timelines. And what do you do with the added challenge of simultaneously absorbing a newly acquired company running Hyper-V and convert 50 VMs to VMware software? Attendees will hear what worked, what broke, and what was learned about DNS, planning, patience, cross-team partnership, and executing a phased migration with minimal disruption.