VMWorld Nicira Presentation….NEED YOUR HELP!
I am trying to get my company’s session approved for this year’s VMWorld. When you aren’t a Platinum sponsor, it is a little bit more difficult to get these things pushed though. So, I am asking for help from anyone who has a VMWorld account to go and vote for the session. Many of you have been asking me what Nicira is up to. This session is a great way to find out. Here are the session details and link to cast your vote.
Title: Reworking the Network to Support Today’s Virtualization & Cloud Demands
Speaker: Martin Casado, Nicira CTO and Founder
Company: Nicira
Session Id: PC8430
Abstract: “The networking industry is lagging far behind the virtualization trends which are transforming our datacenters into pure resource pools of compute power. Traditional approaches to networking hamper the adoption of virtualization with scaling and mobility limitations, vendor lock-in on hardware platforms & management APIs, and an inability to seamlessly bridge physical and virtual topologies. This session will review a networking architecture that offer the guarantees of the physical network, while retaining the flexibility of the cloud. Solutions will be described which tackle problems such as providing strict isolation, bridging physical networks, providing accurate SLAs and billing information, and offering inter-subnet migration with persistent IP addresses. In this talk, real world experiences designing & building multi-tenant virtual networking infrastructures which scale to hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and tens of thousands of tenants will also be discussed. “
Hi Paul —
Platinum Sponsors do receive 2 breakout sessions as part of their sponsor package, but that is managed separately from the Call for Papers. The Call for Papers is a level playing field.
We have 2 rounds of Call for Papers voting and selections are made based on the quality of the submissions and speakers — those that the Content Committee scored highly and/or top rated through public voting.
(I personally think networking sometimes gets overshadowed by storage in the virtualization space, so I hope networking sessions like yours make it in. Good luck with the session!)
John Troyer
VMware Communities
Thanks for your comment John. I was referring to the “special” consideration Platinum Sponsors are occasionally given above and beyond the 2 that come with their sponsorship
That being said, networking is THE next major hurdle in the virtualization space, so it is great to see so many interesting submissions this year.