EMC World kicked off this morning and there are so many opportunities for you to talk with product experts and learn more about how to best utilize your VNX and VNXe storage.

If you are unable to attend EMC World this year, you can still participate virtually with the vPass where keynotes, general sessions, and interviews are being streamed live.

 

KEYNOTE

Rich Napolitano, President of EMC's Unified Storage, will discuss how EMC is revolutionizing midrange storage to address the needs of virtualized application workloads.

Wednesday, 8:30-9:30am

 

EMC BACKSTAGE

Tweet your questions during the keynote using hashtag #EMCBackstage.  After his keynote address, Rich will be joined by Denis Vilfort, Sr. Director of Marketing, and Jon Siegal, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, to answer your questions in this livestreamed event.

Wednesday, 10:00-10:30am

 

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

We are delivering 32 different technical sessions, each offered at least twice, on topics from FLASH 1st at scale to using performance analytics to business continuity with VPLEX.  Check our quick guide to easily find the date/time for the sessions you're interested in.

Monday through Thursday

 

BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER

BOFs allow you to participate in an exchange of ideas and best practices with other EMC customers, and are facilitated by product experts.  We have three BOFs this year: VNX Storage Efficiencies, Leveraging Cloud Infrastructures, Using System and Performance Analytics.  Check the quick guide for time and location.

Tuesday and Wednesday

 

HANDS-ON LAB

We have 5 great labs available for you to get some hands-on time with our solutions:

• VNX with AppSync
• VNX Unisphere Analyzer
• VNX/VNXe Storage Monitoring and Analytics
• VNX Data Efficiency
• VNXe Unisphere Administration and Snapshots

You can find much more information on the Hands-on Labs here.

Monday through Thursday

 

SOLUTIONS PAVILION

Be sure to visit the Unified Storage booth, #134, in the Solutions Pavilion where we have 10 demo stations this year:

• Powering Oracle with VNX
• Powering Microsoft with VNX
• Sizing your VNX environment
• FLASH 1st
• VNX for end user computing
• Managing virtualized infrastructures
• Data protection
• Continuous operations with VPLEX
• Exascale fast data
• Software-defined storage

In our Meet the Expert whiteboard area, you can have deep dive conversations on topics such as ROBO, HPC, and VNX file storage. Additionally, we have brief theatre presentations scheduled every 30 minutes on these topics as well as from VNX customers. And for fun, be sure to try our Whack A Villain challenge - we're giving away prizes daily!

Monday through Wednesday during Solutions Pavilion hours

 

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