VMware Crossroads: Strategies and Options for Government IT Leaders
Date: Thursday, October 10th at 8am PT / 11am ET
In the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, many government organizations find themselves re-evaluating strategies for upgrading legacy infrastructure to support operations and be ready for the demands of AI workloads. To reduce risk, some organizations are considering adopting a dual-vendor strategy. Others are considering moving more workloads to the cloud or planning to move to alternative vendors.
Join Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solution Marketing at Nutanix, and Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst at NAND Research, as they discuss the changes facing Government IT leaders, and review strategies and options on how best to move forward.
These industry experts will review the painful impacts of the acquisition on VMware customers (e.g pricing and packaging changes, shifting support levels and product changes due to planned divestments). Lee and Steve are joined by two Nutanix Federal Senior Cloud Transformation Architects who will provide insights and lessons learned from the real-life experiences of their government customers. These insights will help you chart a path forward that best meets your agency's strategic priorities as you navigate this ever-evolving landscape.
Attendees will walk away with:
- An understanding of the potential implications of the Broadcom-VMware acquisition on an organization's IT roadmap.
- Considerations of alternative strategies (e.g., adopting a dual-vendor strategy, migrating to the public cloud or transitioning to a new platform to support on-prem or hybrid cloud deployments) - taking migration, performance, security, and data sovereignty into account.
- Lessons learned and insights from government IT leaders' choices and experiences - and how they reduced risk and ensured the stability and flexibility of IT infrastructure to support modern and future workloads.
- How the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution provides a single, software-defined platform that supports all workloads across edge to on-prem to the cloud.
- How Nutanix migration tools and services make it easy to move to a new strategy that best meets your strategic objectives.
*Nutanix, Inc. is not affiliated with VMware by Broadcom or Broadcom
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About the presenters:
Lee Caswell, SVP, Products, Solutions and Technical Marketing, Nutanix
Lee is well-known for accelerating the adoption of new technologies by enterprise customers. He comes to Nutanix from VMware where he was VP Product Marketing of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group responsible for VMware’s vSphere™, vSAN ™, and VCF ™ products. Lee has extensive leadership experience in the storage, flash and virtualization markets including past executive roles at NetApp, Fusion-IO, and Adaptec. Lee started his career at GE Corporate Consulting and holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Dartmouth College. In his spare time, Lee enjoys cycling, playing guitar, and hiking the local hills.
Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst, NAND Research
Steve McDowell is chief analyst at NAND Research. Steve is a technologist with over 25 years of deep industry experience in a variety of strategy, engineering, and strategic marketing roles, all with the unifying theme of delivering innovative technologies into the enterprise infrastructure market.
Kanuj Behl,Field CTO, Cloud Transformation Architect, Federal Civilian, Nutanix
Kanuj is a Chief Technologist with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He has over two decades of experience working in the datacenter with experience running cables, configuring networking equipment, managing various web and application systems, as well as administering virtualized Windows and Unix/Linux systems for both commercial organizations and federal agencies. He has been with Nutanix for over 10 years in sales, working on some of the largest and most complex private and hybrid cloud opportunities in the Federal Civilian space.
Brandon Rice, Field CTO, Cloud Transformation Architect, Federal DoD, Nutanix
Brandon is a Field CTO at Nutanix for the Federal Government, specifically the Department of Defense. He has been at Nutanix for over 8 years starting as an SE covering the fourth estate within the DOD (DISA, DMA, DFAS, etc). Before his time at Nutanix, he worked at DISA as a contractor for about 5 years, and in the Banking industry for a few years. Brandon is passionate related to all things Security required at the highest levels of Government and Financial verticals.