Name: VMware Alternatives for Channel Partners (USA)
Start: 2024-08-28T17:00:00Z
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Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster utilizing public and private clouds, providing a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With a long-standing record of delivering solutions based on open source with enterprise-grade support, Mirantis offers an as-a-service experience of Kubernetes and OpenStack to provide containerization and virtualization services. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide Insurance, Reliance Jio, S&P Global, Seagate, Société Générale, and Volkswagen. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Mirantis is a global company headquartered in Campbell, California.

With VMware now part of Broadcom, thousands of enterprises are seeking alternatives. This shift presents a historic opportunity for IT distributors and resellers to act as trusted advisors, guiding customers toward more compelling replacement solutions that can drive strategic business outcomes both now and in the future.
Join our webinar featuring Charan Thota, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at Mirantis, and Mike Kress, Director, Partners and Alliances at Mirantis. In this session, you will gain insights into various VMware alternatives, understand their pros and cons, and learn why Mirantis' private or hybrid clouds are the optimal choice for customers ready to advance their virtualization journey.

In this webinar, channel partners will learn:
- The various VMware replacement options and the leading vendors.
- A comparative analysis of these vendors in terms of technology openness, ease of onboarding, and other critical aspects.
- The benefits of utilizing truly open and flexible open source-based private or hybrid clouds from Mirantis.
- How Mirantis can empower channel partners to successfully secure VMware replacement opportunities.

If you're in the US, sign up for our webinar at a convenient time for your timezone below.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18604/621310?

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After Broadcom hiked up VMware prices, most customers had no leverage to negotiate better subscription rates. So now as VMware customers seek alternative solutions, many want a flexible tech stack that won’t make them vulnerable to price increases or deteriorating service levels. A number of infrastructure vendors claim to eliminate vendor lock-in, but it’s hard to figure out who’s blabbing marketing hype, and who can actually deliver.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how some VMware alternatives can introduce new forms of lock-in, and how your organization can find a solution that genuinely frees you from proprietary constraints, so you can restore your leverage over IT suppliers.

Michael Tillman, Solution Architecture Manager, will cover:
- The different dimensions of vendor lock-in, even with open source-based solutions
- How leading VMware alternatives stack up, including Nutanix, Red Hat, Canonical, and Mirantis
- Why you need to go beyond platform flexibility and strategically implement a complete vendor-neutral solution that will provide long-term payoffs

Reclaim IT Leverage: Sifting through Market Hype in the Post VMware Age

Join us for an informative webinar on leveraging the DISA STIG certification process to secure Kubernetes deployments. Using Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) as an example, we will examine the steps and best practices necessary to meet stringent government and industry standards. This session is tailored for public sector professionals and those in regulated industries such as finance, aiming to strengthen their Kubernetes environments.

What You Will Learn:
- DISA STIG Certification Overview: A thorough look at the DISA STIG certification process and its role in Kubernetes security.
- Key Security Controls: Implementation of critical security controls required for compliance.
- Overcoming Challenges: Practical strategies for addressing common obstacles in the certification journey.
- Documentation and Automation: The importance of precise documentation and automation in maintaining compliance.

By attending this webinar, you will gain a clear understanding of what is involved in the DISA STIG certification process and the critical steps needed to ensure Kubernetes security. You will learn the importance of partnering with the vendor of a STIG-compliant Kubernetes solution, like Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, to achieve compliance for your services and applications built on that solution.

Ensuring Kubernetes Security through the DISA STIG Process

OpenStack adoption is skyrocketing, as many enterprises look for alternatives to VMware or hyperscalers. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is a hardened, and fully-supported OpenStack distribution, designed to run on top of a Kubernetes substrate for extra resiliency, performance, and simplicity of operations, especially updates. 

See how you can leverage the new Dynamic Resource Balancer in MOSK 24.2 to automatically redistribute virtual machines within your cluster to optimize utilization of resources in it, e.g., to prevent hypervisor overloading (“hot spots”) or machine performance degradation due to noisy neighbors.

Join Staff Product Manager Artem Andreev and Principal Software Engineer Pavlo Shchelokovskyy as they give an overview of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes and provide a demo of the new Dynamic Resource Balancer.

Attend this webinar to learn:
Learn about Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes architecture and key capabilities
Understand how the new Dynamic Resource Balancer service helps to optimize resource utilization in a MOSK cluster
See a demo of virtual machines getting dynamically redistributed
Ask any questions you have about MOSK or OpenStack in general

Sign up now!

Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes Demo: See the New Dynamic Resource Balancer

Plentiful resources exist – including a DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide – for securing Kubernetes. But what about multi-orchestrator environments that include both Kubernetes and Swarm? 

Many public sector organizations use Swarm orchestration, and a subset need both Swarm and Kubernetes platforms. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine is a hardened Kubernetes distribution that does both: one system, supporting just Kubernetes, just Swarm, or both. But this adds some steps in how to harden MKE for public sector or regulated industry (read: highly secure) use cases.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss security controls for MKE, covering both Kubernetes and Swarm mode orchestration. We’ll examine the new MKE DISA STIG in detail, to show how MKE can be locked-down for both orchestration modes.

Highly Secure Multi-Mode Container Orchestration: Kubernetes and Swarms

This webinar provides a recommended set of steps for planning your company’s migration from VMware to the leading Open Source infrastructure platform, OpenStack. The webinar will walk you through common reasons why migration is needed and some of the main benefits. The migration plan provides a well-established methodology to help your company navigate many of the complexities that can arise during the migration process and avoid pitfalls that can derail your initiative. 

To show your company the success that this migration planning approach can achieve, we will provide two concrete customer examples, including an industry-leading digital documentation company with over a billion users, and a fast-growing cybersecurity company used by federal governments around the world.

The webinar will include a live Q&A session to address any specific questions you may have regarding the planning steps.

Planning your VMware Migration to OpenStack: 2 Real-World Use Cases

Are you considering moving away from VMware to reduce cost, increase flexibility and enjoy the benefits of an OpenStack Cloud? Mirantis and Trilio, are partnering together to provide you insights to help you take advantage of technology to automate the planning and migration process helping you to complete your VMware to OpenStack journey.


Join Kevin Jackson, Senior Director of Product Management from Trilio, and Michael Tillman, Solution Architecture Manager from Mirantis, discussing everything you need to consider about moving from VMware to OpenStack, the consultancy approach, the Trilio software designed for migrating to OpenStack, and life beyond the migration.


In this webinar we will cover:
- Trilio and Mirantis joint consultancy approach
- Learn about key concepts and differences between VMware and OpenStack
- How Trilio maps a virtualization landscape to the flexibility of cloud
- How Mirantis simplifies Day 2 operations with fully-automated updates and upgrades

Automating VMware migration: From transitioning workloads to Day 2 operations

“They’re all VM-based workloads. How hard could it be to migrate them? Mostly a lift-and-shift, right?” True! But “simple” migrations can also be harder than they look, and slower, and riskier – unless you follow a dependable playbook and apply the right tools.

Doing migrations right is critical to gaining benefit from new private cloud environments: reduced ops overhead, better hardware utilization, power savings – and it’s ultimately what lets you reduce your VMware footprint on a reasonable timetable (and reduce those costs).

In this webinar, Michael Tillman and Heiko Kraemer, Principal Cloud Architect, tackle the challenge of how you plan, automate, and execute moving a diverse, VM-based workload population off VMware and onto an OpenStack private cloud. He’ll reveal the hidden gotchas, entity mapping issues, and other technical challenges, and offer both a playbook and recommendations for a toolkit to help you plan and execute migrations faster, with greater assurance and steeply-reduced risks.

Migrating off VMware to OpenStack: Here’s What It Takes

OpenStack supports a variety of Open Source and proprietary storage. Choosing the right storage backend or combination of storage technologies can make or break the cloud experience for the owner and customers alike. This webinar will compare different storage technologies in the context of OpenStack and provide insight into choosing the right approach for your individual use case.

Join Christian Huebner, an expert on OpenStack storage and system architecture, and learn how to…
- Explore storage concepts and technologies in OpenStack
- Discover key factors affecting OpenStack storage performance through use-case analysis
- Select solutions that won't disappoint, avoid expensive mistakes, and get great performance cost-effectively

Make or Break: How to Choose the Right OpenStack Storage

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Containers and Kubernetes provide a powerful, standards-based toolkit, rooted in open source, for delivering and running applications at the Edge and centrally managing large-scale distributed infrastructure with grace, ease, and reliability. Many now agree that Kubernetes is the future for Edge and IoT. But mapping the containers+Kubernetes technology stack to unique Edge use-cases can be challenging.

In this webinar, Mirantis Solution Architect Kevin Ng will discuss some of the major categories of Edge use-cases, enumerate their technical challenges, and describe how Mirantis and customers are building out a new generation of Kubernetes-native solutions to bring new fluency and simplicity to Edge operations. The focus will be on k0s – the CNCF-validated open source single binary Kubernetes distribution – and its growing set of Kubernetes operators: including k0smotron (centralized, declarative Kubernetes control plane fleet management), CAPI (declarative cloud and bare metal infrastructure management), as well as Autopilot, an operator enabling declarative configuration of automated, non-disruptive cluster updates.

Among the Edge scenarios discussed will be:
- Distributed retail and POS
- Manufacturing control and monitoring
- Scientific process management and monitoring
- Distributed telecommunications
- Specialized Kubernetes applications for remote field, military, and other scenarios

Kevin will detail how aspects of the k0s distro, like control plane/worker separation, encrypted/authenticated worker-to-control plane connectivity, meet Edge use-case requirements for efficiency and risk reduction. He’ll also provide a ‘deep’ demo of how all the Kubernetes-native moving parts work together, simplifying bootstrapping a secure, production-ready multi-cluster Kubernetes system with k0s and k0smotron, and managing remote workers at scale.

k0s and k0smotron at the Edge: Use-Cases

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to deploy large-scale on-prem cloud infrastructure swiftly is not just an advantage but a necessity. Just one catch: large-scale infra initiatives are easy to dream about and hard to execute. How can you ensure that your complex infrastructure deployments are both swift and successful? 

On February 1, Mirantis’ Satnam Johal and Menno de Fouw will explain how to leverage advanced virtualization, containerization, and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and software-defined infrastructure to streamline and expedite deployment.

Join and learn how to…
- Design a tailored cloud blueprint and select vendors for rapid deployment 
- Combine pre-deployment planning, pre-configured hardware and software solutions, and the power of automation
- Ensure operational efficiency and scalability—while positioning yourself to respond to market changes and technological advancements

Join us to learn from our cloud infra experts’ experiences and approach.

Deploying large scale cloud on prem in weeks

Whether you’re spinning up local test clusters or orchestrating workloads at the edge, you need a way to run Kubernetes quickly and easily without overburdening your hardware. The answer? Lightweight Kubernetes distributions designed to leverage the power of K8s without all the overhead. 

k0s, k3s, and microk8s are all popular open source Kubernetes distributions with small footprints—but which is right for your use-case? In this webinar, Kevin Ng will guide you through the capabilities of each option so you can choose the tool that’s right for you.

k0s vs k3s vs microk8s: How to Choose a Lightweight Kubernetes Distro

Aging legacy applications drag down innovation with ever-growing complexity, infrequent releases, and obstacles to adopting new, potentially game-changing technologies. To stay competitive, many organizations are modernizing their applications to run on more flexible multi-cloud architecture that can be optimized for the security, latency, and operational requirements of each workload, while also greatly reducing Total Cost of Ownership. 

Join us on Wednesday, December 13 for a webinar, “App Modernization for Cloud Mobility: Achieving Cheaper, More Flexible Multi-Cloud,” in which Mirantis Principal Cloud Solutions Architect Daniel Virassamy will detail a pragmatic approach to transforming monolithic applications for multi-cloud portability.

Attendees will learn:
- The benefits of application modernization and multi-cloud architecture for developers and operators alike
- A pragmatic approach to transforming your legacy applications for multi-cloud that reduces your risk of project delays, security risks, and unnecessary costs
- Best practices for streamlining multi-cloud operations, whether you choose public clouds, private clouds, or both

Can’t join our live broadcast? Register anyways, and we’ll send you the slides and recording.

App Modernization for Cloud Mobility: Achieving Cheaper & Flexible Multi-Cloud

How can you make a swift and cost-effective move to open cloud infrastructure? In this webinar, we’ll explore fast and secure strategies to transition VMware workloads to OpenStack clouds, so your business can enjoy substantial cost savings and gain greater flexibility and extensibility to fine-tune infrastructure for your needs.

Join Mirantis Principal Solution Architect Daniel Virassamy in our webinar to learn about:
- The advantages of OpenStack over vSphere from both business and technical perspectives
- How Mirantis architecture and engineering services design, run, and continuously finetune bespoke OpenStack clouds
- How end-to-end workload migration services help teams to prepare, plan, execute, and validate automated, CI/CD based migrations

Migrate your VMware workloads to bespoke open clouds

It’s all too easy for app modernization plans to grind to a halt as teams put out the daily fires. Whether you’re stuck in this loop or still contemplating a modernization, crafting the right modernization plan can save you months (or years) of drudgery.

In this webinar, Solution Architect Kevin Ng will show you how we use the Mirantis Application Migration and Modernization Platform (AMMP) to craft a carefully prioritized plan for rapid modernization. 

You’ll learn:

- Considerations for apps to rehost, replatform, refactor, or rewrite
- How AMMP drives tasks like containerization at scale
- How we help organizations accelerate application modernization by 600%
- How to ensure that your application modernization actually gets done, instead of being endlessly put on the backburner

App Modernization at Scale: A Plan for 600% Faster Cloud Native Transformation

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, edge computing has emerged as a transformative technology that brings computing resources closer to the data sources and end-users.  As a simple, CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution, k0s offers a comprehensive solution for building and managing edge computing environments at the Edge and Far Edge.

In this webinar, Daniel Virassamy and Roman Kuzmin will show you how to unlock the potential of Edge and Far Edge clouds with k0s and explain how Kubernetes can revolutionize the way you deploy and manage applications at the edge.

Explore IT, IoT, and Telco use-cases and learn how you can  leverage support for x86 and ARM architectures, multi-CNI (Container Network Interface), and virtual machines, in addition to standard containerization.

How to Build Environments at the Edge and Far Edge with k0s

With VMware now part of Broadcom, thousands of enterprises are seeking alternatives. This shift presents a historic opportunity for IT distributors and resellers to act as trusted advisors, guiding customers toward more compelling replacement solutions that can drive strategic business outcomes both now and in the future.
Join our webinar featuring Charan Thota, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at Mirantis, and Mike Kress, Director, Partners and Alliances at Mirantis. In this session, you will gain insights into various VMware alternatives, understand their pros and cons, and learn why Mirantis' private or hybrid clouds are the optimal choice for customers ready to advance their virtualization journey.

In this webinar, channel partners will learn:
- The various VMware replacement options and the leading vendors.
- A comparative analysis of these vendors in terms of technology openness, ease of onboarding, and other critical aspects.
- The benefits of utilizing truly open and flexible open source-based private or hybrid clouds from Mirantis.
- How Mirantis can empower channel partners to successfully secure VMware replacement opportunities.


If you're in the EMEA region, sign up for our webinar at a convenient time for your timezone below.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18604/621314?

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