Thursday, October 8, 2026
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM US Pacific

Week 1

VCF Security & Resilience: Starting at the Beginning

Join Bob Plankers and John Nicholson as we take a tour of the security and resilience features built into the core of VMware Cloud Foundation. We’ll talk about base security controls, logging, vMotion, vSphere High Availability, and the Distributed Resource Scheduler, and take questions as we go.

Thursday, October 15, 2026
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM US Pacific

Week 2

VCF Protects While The Security Landscape Changes

Join Bob Plankers and John Nicholson as we look at how VMware Cloud Foundation protects workloads and data despite new threats from AI, new regulations, and new demands on IT. We’ll talk about technical and organizational strategies for patching both VCF and workloads, snapshots, workload security features like vTPM and confidential computing.

Thursday, October 22, 2026
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM US Pacific

Week 3

VCF Identity and Access Control Best Practices

Join Bob Plankers and John Nicholson as we talk through one of the biggest threats to IT infrastructure: stolen credentials. What are organizations doing nowadays to help isolate and protect their most critical environments? We’ll talk about identity federation, isolation, and organizational process changes to make sure the bad actors don’t get very far. 

Thursday, October 29, 2026
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM US Pacific

Week 4

VCF Helps You Survive Bad Situations

Join Bob Plankers and John Nicholson as we take a look at a number of bad situations that emerge in IT, and how VMware Cloud Foundation helps with them. We’ll talk about and do some roleplaying around ransomware, bad application upgrades, hurricanes, and geopolitical turmoil.