Highlights from
Runecast Virtual Conference 2020

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Risk Management in the Age of Quarantine

Presenter: John Arrasjid (VCDX #1)
Sessions Abstract: Let's talk about risk management and mitigation in the age of quarantine. Find what you can do for yourself, your company and your community.

Fighting Cancer with VMware Technology, GPUs, and ML

Presenters: Johan van Amersfoort & Niels Hagoort
(Technologist EUC/AI, ITQ & Tech Marketing Architect, VMware)
Session Abstract: We will go into details about a medical research institution customer case that realized a way to discover and detect cancer cells in an early stage using photo analyses. We will demo how vSphere technology running a machine learning application utilizing GPUs helped to make this possible. In this session, we will explain the details about GPU architecture and elaborate on how VMware vSphere ESXi supports the usage of GPUs. Learn how you can benefit from GPU compute power when using machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) workloads.

Burnout in the Age of COVID19 - Working from Home Tips From the Trenches

Presenter: Anthony Spiteri (Senior Global Technologist)
Session Abstract: It's April but this is no April Fools! Many of us are still more than likely working from home due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Having been working at home for the best part of the last four years I'll be going through my tips and tricks to a successful WFH strategy. More relevant to todays situation, I'll talk about how that experience has kept me powering through my day job among all the crazy. There are things we can do to avoid burnout while at home and also on how to avoid the stresses of a time where everything seems to be going against our normal needs wand wants as humans... let along IT Professionals.

Fighting COVID-19 by distributed computing

Presenters: Michael Schröder & Lars Fiechtner (Microlytix & VMware)
Session Abstract: Scientists around the globe are struggling to find a cure for pandemic disease COVID19. Distributed compute power can outperform current supercomputers. Our session covers the background of today’s challenge and how everybody can contribute to find a possible drug target. We’ll show how everybody can be part of the Force for Good by supporting the non-profit project Folding@home (F@H). You'll see how to use the ‘VMware Appliance for Folding@home’ to join the Team VMware.

Prepare for your upcoming vSphere upgrade

Presenter: Kev Johnson (Systems Engineer, Runecast Solutions)
Session Abstract: With the official vSphere 7 announcement on March 10, you might be thinking of upgrades to your vSphere environments. Join this webinar with vSphere expert Kev Johnson where he will walk you through the planning and successful execution of vSphere in your SDDCs, and see how Runecast Analyzer can facilitate the process for you.

Unifying NSX Automation, Operations and Troubleshooting

Presenter: Allen Bailey (Senior Engineer, ReSTNSX)
Session Abstract: ReSTNSX delivers unified, simple to use platforms for NSX-v and T. From daily operations to NSX-T migrations, the ReSTNSX solutions provide value to multiple groups within your IT organization.

VMware HCX… Zero to Hero

Presenter: Bilal Ahmed & Chris Noon (VMware SDDC Snr Consultant & Claranet Network Tech Lead)
Session Abstract: The audience journey will take them from having minimal exposure to a point where they are comfortable having HCX conversations with friends, colleagues and customers.

Monitor your VCSA through REST APIs

Presenter: Rudi Martinsen (Senior Systems Engineer, Proact IT Norge AS)
Session Abstract: Learn how you can quickly put together your own monitoring solution for your vCenter Server appliances built with open-source tools like InfluxDB and Grafana.
We will pull information from multiple vCenters and build dashboards that gives real value in just a few minutes.

Get stuff done quicker with Ansible

Presenter: Tom Fenton (VMware Technical Expert, ControlUp)
Session Abstract: ControlUp’s native integration with VMware Horizon allows Horizon admins to optimize their Horizon investment, reduce Horizon management tasks, and deliver an enhanced Horizon end user experience. In this session, Tom Fenton, Technical Specialist at ControlUp, will review and demonstrate benefits like automatic discovery of Horizon components, enhanced Session monitoring, Horizon Pod, Connection Servers and Pools folder views, and Automated Actions and Enhanced Virtual Expert capabilities for Horizon entities.

Practical Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, the Future and You!

Presenter: Christopher Kusek (Remedy8 Security)
Session Abstract: Listen in as @CXI takes you on a journey of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, various anecdotes, parables, examples, fun and ways you can start directly leveraging these tools TODAY in your Personal and Professional life. You'll laugh, you'll cry, your Alexa might cry a little bit as well.

Optimize Your VMware Horizon Investment with ControlUp

Presenter: Tom Fenton (VMware Technical Expert, ControlUp)
Session Abstract: ControlUp’s native integration with VMware Horizon allows Horizon admins to optimize their Horizon investment, reduce Horizon management tasks, and deliver an enhanced Horizon end user experience. In this session, Tom Fenton, Technical Specialist at ControlUp, will review and demonstrate benefits like automatic discovery of Horizon components, enhanced Session monitoring, Horizon Pod, Connection Servers and Pools folder views, and Automated Actions and Enhanced Virtual Expert capabilities for Horizon entities.

Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboard using InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana

Presenter: Jorge de la Cruz (Blogger)
Session Abstract: On a modern Datacenter, we find ourselves surrounded by a lot of metrics, systems which require our attention or monitoring, alarms and events management, etc.
On this session, we will learn how to create beautifully, and meaningful Dashboards from our vSphere most critical assets like Hosts, VMs, Cluster, and Datastores. The best part is the whole monitoring system can be deployed in seconds using Docker, and it does use the vSphere SDK, which makes it non-intrusive and very efficient.

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