Events

No matter when you arrive in St. Louis or how early you want access to your VMUG Connect badge and swag – early registration is available most of the day on Wednesday enabling you to get settled in and ready for a powerhouse few days together. Our team will be able to answer questions, provide...

Get a head start on VMUG Connect with VMUG PreConnect, an informal, topic-driven gathering designed for meaningful discussions before the Welcome Reception this evening. Hosted at the hotel venue, this session offers a relaxed setting where you can drop in anytime to connect with Broadcom experts and fellow VMUG peers. With dedicated focus topics on...

Location: The Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis The first event of VMUG Connect is one you won’t want to miss! Join us at this unique, incredible space for freshly poured drinks, food and exclusive tours for VMUG VIPs of the Clydesdale Stables, Beechwood Aging Cellars and the Historic Anheuser-Busch Brewhouse.

All meals are included with your VMUG Connect Pass. Grab a bite and chat with other attendees as you settle in for VMUG Connect!

Innovation isn’t just about ideas—it’s about building the future. In this electrifying keynote, hacker, inventor, and futurist Pablos Holman will draw on his experience working with visionaries like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Nathan Myhrvold, to share how bold thinking, curiosity, and hacking the status quo can drive the world’s most disruptive breakthroughs. Join this...

AI discussions often center on Data Scientists, but high-performing infrastructure is the foundation of any successful AI application. This session takes a deep dive into Private AI Foundation, equipping infrastructure administrators with essential AI skills to elevate their organization—and their career. We’ll explore key Gen-AI components like LLMs, VectorDBs, and RAG architecture from an infrastructure...

Grab a coffee, wrap up a chat and prep for your next session!

VMware Cloud Foundation offers a streamlined solution for modernizing your IT infrastructure. This session provides a foundational overview of VMware Cloud Foundation, a full-stack hyperconverged platform designed to simplify data center operations and accelerate the deployment of modern apps. Explore the core components of VMware Cloud Foundation, such as SDDC Manager, VMware NSX, and VMware...

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VMware Live Site Recovery™ is the industry-leading solution to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments.

Hypervisors have long served as the foundation of virtualization due to their flexibility. Unfortunately, the recent breaches against MITRE, MGM Casinos ($100M), and Johnson Controls ($51M) showcase the vulnerability of hypervisors. The devastating blast radius a ransomware attack can have on a virtualized environment is of paramount concern to the hypervisor community. However, protecting hypervisors...

Private cloud dreams are often stymied by fiefdoms separating the infra, the apps and the network. Missing from this list is the load balancer, the piece that ties disparate components together. This session will show how to raise the bar with an end-to-end self service workflow rather than isolated components. Rather than pick at the...