VMware (by Broadcom) Explore US Network & Security Sessions 2024

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Written By Joerg Roesch

VMware (by Broadcom) Explore will taken place in Las Vegas from 26th to 29th of August 2024. VMware Explore EMEA in Barcelona is from 5th of November to 7th of November 2024. It will be the first conference under the flagship from Broadcom. For this reason there will be additional sessions from other Broadcom business groups like Symnatec, Brocade, DX NetOps, etc. I provide recommendations within this blog post about some technical sessions related to Network & Security topics for the Explore event in US. I have excluded certifications and Hands-on-Labs and Meet the Expert Roundtable sessions from my list. I have focused on none 100 level sessions, only in case of new topics I have done some exceptions.

Pricing

A full event pass for VMware Explore costs $2,395 for the US event. If you book it before the 15th of July you get the pass $2,195. The full event pass has following advantages:

Full Event passes provide the following benefits:

  • Four days of sessions including the general session, breakout sessions, roundtables and more, with content tailored to both the business and technical audiences

  • Destinations, lounges and activities such as The Expo and Hands-on Labs 

  • Focused programming for SpringOne

  • Admittance to official Explore evening events including The Party and events in The Expo

  • Exclusive Explore swag

  • Attendee meals

Your full event pass registration allows you to purchase VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) certification exam vouchers at a 50 percent discount (exams must be taken onsite during Explore Las Vegas).

VMware Explore Session Recommendations

Now I come to my session recommendations which are based on my experience and some very good known speakers from the last years and about topics which I am interested from Network and Security point of view. But first I have to say that every VMware Explore session is worth to join and customers, partners and VMware employees have taken much efforts to prepare some very good content. For me the VMware Explore sessions are the most important source to get technical updates, innovation and training. All sessions can be also watched after VMware Explore. Some hints to the session ID`s, the letter in bracket like VCFB1499LV stands for VCF = VMware Cloud Foudation (Business Unit) and B = Breakout Session. LV indicated that it is a session in Las Vegas. Sometimes you see also an letter D behind LV, this means that it is not a in person session, D stands for distributed. Please take into account that VMware by Broadcom has new business units:

  • VMware Cloud Foundation - VCF

  • Application Networking & Security - ANS

  • Modern Application - TNZ

  • Software-Defined Edge - SDE

And there are also “legacy” Broadcom business units like Agile Operation Division (AOD) or Enterprise Security Group (ESG) which includes Symantec.

Advanced Network & Security (ANS) Solution Key Note

NSX Sessions - Infrastructure related

Security Sessions

VMwarew AVI Load Balancer related

Network & Security Cloud Sessions

NSX Sessions - Container related

Network Monitoring related

DPU (SMARTNICS)

Symantec Sessions

SD-WAN and SASE

Summary

Please take into account that there are a lot of other interesting VMware by Broadcom Explore sessions, also for many other topics like AI, cloud, Edge, Container, vSphere, etc.

Feel free to add comments below if you see other mandatory sessions in the Network & Security area. I wish you a lot of Fun at VMware by Broadcom Explore 2024 in Las Vegas!

Joerg Roesch

Joerg is working as a Lead Solution Engineer at VMware. His focus is Network & Security for Multi Cloud architectures.

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