VMworld 2012 Starts Next Week! [schedule]
As Kristen noted this morning, VMworld is nearly upon us, and we on #theCube team have made our final preparations, renders, notes, and most importantly, schedules for our third year of coverage at the event. We have a stellar lineup of guests this year, and the line-up is filled to the rafters with superstars.
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You can tune in to the coverage on any SiliconANGLE property, or watch the high quality stream @ siliconangle.tv.
| TIME | MONDAY 8/27/12 |
| 10:00 | theCUBE Kickoff with John Furrier, SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante, Wikibon |
| 10:20 | Rory Bolt, Proximal Data, Founder and CEO |
| 10:40 | Craig Nunes, HP, VP of Storage Marketing |
| 11:00 | Clod Barrera, IBM Chief Technology Strategist |
| 11:20 | David Flynn, Fusion-io, CEO and Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io, VP |
| 11:40 | Tarkan Maner, Dell/Wyse, VP/GM of Cloud Client Computing |
| 12:00 | [Flash Hybrids Panel] Kieran Harty, Tintri, CEO; Rohit Kshetrapal, Tegile, CEO; Suresh Vasudevan, Nimble Storage, CEO |
| 12:20 | [All-Flash Panel] Scott Dietzen, Pure Storage, CEO; Thomas Isakovich, Nimbus Data, CEO and Founder; James Candelaria, WhipTail Technologies, CTO and Founder |
| 12:40 | Rick Jackson, VMware, CMO |
| 1:00 | News/research |
| 1:20 | Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix, Co-Founder & CEO |
| 1:40 | Simon Crosby, Bromium, Co-Founder and CTO |
| 2:00 | News/research |
| 2:20 | News & Highlights |
| 2:40 | Kevin Brown, Coraid, CEO and Tim DuFour, Rackforce, CEO |
| 3:00 | News & Highlights |
| 3:20 | News & Highlights |
| 3:40 | Feargal O'Sullivan, NYSE Technologies, Global Head of Alliances |
| 4:00 | Rich Napolitano, EMC, President of Unified Storage Division and Eric Herzog, EMC, SVP |
| 4:20 | Anil Sedha, Postmedia, Midrange Services and Storage Supervisor |
| 4:40 | BJ Jenkins, EMC, President of BRS |
| 5:00 | Day 1 Wrapup |
| TIME | TUESDAY 8/28/12 |
| 10:00 | Pat Gelsinger, VMware, Incoming CEO |
| 10:20 | Chad Sakac, EMC, SVP |
| 10:40 | Mark Egan, VMware, CIO |
| 11:00 | Carter George, Dell, Executive Director of Storage Strategy |
| 11:20 | Frank Slootman, ServiceNow, CEO |
| 11:40 | Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp, CIO |
| 12:00 | [Customer panel] Steve Caniano, AT&T, VP of Cloud Operations; Gary Bronson, FedEx, VP of Global IT |
| 12:20 | VCs discussion with Ping Li |
| 12:40 | More VCs and Startups |
| 1:00 | Praveen Akkiraju, VCE, CEO |
| 1:20 | Jayshree Ullal, Arista Networks, CEO |
| 1:40 | David Scott, HP, SVP and GM of Storage |
| 2:00 | News/research |
| 2:20 | Wikibon Research Discussion |
| 2:40 | News & Highlights |
| 3:00 | News & Highlights |
| 3:20 | The Future of Backup cubeANGLE |
| 3:40 | Stephen Manley, EMC, CTO of BRS and Guy Churchward, EMC, SVP of BRS Engineering |
| 4:00 | Mike Chrystal, St. Charles Health Systems, Enterprise Architect for Server and Storage |
| 4:20 | Jason Buffington, ESG, Senior Analyst |
| 4:40 | Day 2 Wrapup |
| 5:00 | |
| TIME | WEDNESDAY 8/29/12 |
| 10:00 | theCUBE Kickoff with John Furrier, SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante, Wikibon |
| 10:20 | [Networking panel] 1) Howie Xu, Big Switch, VP of Engineering; 2) Raj Kanaya, Infineta, CEO and Co-Founder; 3) Greg Scherer, Broadcom, VP of Storage and Strategy |
| 10:40 | Steve Herrod, VMware, CTO |
| 11:00 | Ted Newman, EMC Consulting, Sr Director of Cloud and Virtual Data Center Services |
| 11:20 | Dom Delfino, Cisco, Sr Director |
| 11:40 | Lucas Carlson, Appfog, CEO and James Watters, VMware, Director of Cloud Foundry |
| 12:00 | News/research |
| 12:20 | 1) Brian Reagan, Actifio, VP of Product Marketing; 2) Doug Hazelman, Veeam, VP of Product Strategy |
| 12:40 | Javier Soltero, VMware, CTO of SaaS and Application Services |
| 1:00 | Tod Nielsen, VMware, Co-President |
| 1:20 | Christofer Hoff, @beaker |
| 1:40 | [Security Panel] 1) Edward Haletky, The Virtualization Practice; 2) Christofer Hoff, @beaker; 3) Hemma Prafullchandra, Hytrust, CTO |
| 2:00 | News/research |
| 2:20 | News & Highlights |
| 2:40 | News & Highlights |
| 3:00 | News & Highlights |
| 3:20 | News & Highlights |
| 3:40 | News & Highlights |
| 4:00 | News & Highlights |
| 4:20 | News & Highlights |
| 4:40 | Conference Wrapup |
| 5:00 | Wrap-up day or noise from concert prep |
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