Agenda 1 Welcome 2 Customer Introduction 3 Panel Discussion 4 Questions from the audience 5 Close VMworld 2017 Content: Not for publication 2

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1 NET3081PE Customer Panel on VMware NSX VMworld 2017 Sebastien Lacoste-Seris (Moderator) Panelists: Frank Wadmore, Rasmus Thomsen, Bernd Malmqvist, David Marshall Content: Not for publication #VMworld #NET3081PE

2 Agenda 1 Welcome 2 Customer Introduction 3 Panel Discussion 4 Questions from the audience 5 Close VMworld 2017 Content: Not for publication 2

3 SMARTGAMES Technologies Bernd Malmqvist Tech Lead Systems Operations & Network Engineering About Smartgames Smartgames was founded in 2007 as a Technology Service provider of Lottery and Betting Web Platforms to different European customers We mainly run our infrastructure out of data centres in the United Kingdom Overall stats: 11 vsphere Clusters VMworld ESXi compute nodes ~1100 VMs (~450 VMs in NSX) Current solution Mid-2016 decided to move to a Software defined data center using VMware NSX Platform separation/micro-segmentation and automation were the key drivers for our solution We massively reduced complexity and administrative overhead in our network using VMware NSX Content: Not for publication Moving towards hybrid-cloud infrastructure 3

4 University of Central Lancashire Frank Wadmore IN Networks & Security Manager, About UCLAN Founded in 1828, as the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge. Ex solo ad solem, or in translation, From the Earth to the Sun, has been its motto ever since helping talented people from all walks of life to make the most of their potential We are a Post 1992 University and are based in the North West of the UK and have a campus in Cyprus One of the UK s largest universities with a student and staff community approaching 38,000 Current solution We are in the process of deploying NSX as part of our overall multi-layered IT security strategy. As an education institution we see our most common threats from internal users. This creates issues when attempting to deliver services to end users both on and off campus. Our aim is for NSX to play a key role in not only delivering key business systems in an efficient and effective way, but also to enable our end users to work unhindered by draconian restrictions whilst still protecting both the institution and the users from threats. VMworld 2017 Content: Not for publication 4

5 Edinburgh Napier University David Marshall Senior Infrastructure Analyst About ENU Now home to over 19,500 students from over 140 countries we first welcomed 800 students as Napier Technical College in However our story goes back to the time of John Napier, the brilliant 16th-century mathematician and philosopher from whom we take our name VMworld 2017 Current solution 2 Active-Active Datacentres with a CrossvCenter NSX implementation. NSX has allowed ENU to securely support: Hosting of online Virtual Learning Environments for two other educational institutions. Ad-hoc research environments for collaborative industrial partnerships. Content: Not for publication Teaching and student-learning server environments to support the increasingly research focused goals of the university. The ability to secure key data systems within the perimeter firewalls and move towards automating the datacenters 5

6 SITA Sébastien Lacoste-Seris About SITA Our vision is to support easy air travel every step of the way We transform air travel through technology for airlines, airports and aircraft Nearly every passenger trip relies on our technology SITA supports almost every airline and airport in the world VMworld 2017 Current solution Community Cloud offering IaaS from cloud nodes in North America, Europe and Asia Hosting Mission Critical applications for the Air Transport Industry VMs Released its 2nd generation Cloud platform built on vblock running NSX & VCD Content: Not for publication Integration with complex (100+) MPLS networks Zero-downtime and fully automated migration to Cloud 2.0 leveraging NSX Looking at further extending NSX usage for cross-cloud integration (customer DCs & Public Clouds) 6

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