ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

Imagine being one of Europe's busiest airports, IT being the foundation of your day to day operations.
That makes high availability and business continuity a key principle of every system you implement, everything you do actually.
Now imagine getting a call from the commercial datacenter that provides you with that crucial availability.
"We sold the place, you are to vacate in eight months"

Not only did the airport need to procure and fit out a datacenter, they also needed to move all systems, while keeping the lights on.
Our Everpure storage arrays were one of the pillars of the environment, so they needed to keep running while we moved.
Let's talk about some of the challenges we faced and how we used the Everpure toolkit to address those.

Building an AI proof of concept today is surprisingly easy. With the right tools and platforms, you can get something working in no time.

But turning that PoC into a production system is where the real work begins.

Suddenly, it’s about privacy, scalability, reliability, cost, and automation. Tools that worked fine in a prototype start to show their limits.

In this talk, I’ll walk through what to consider in that transition based on a ‘how-not-to’ and how to move from a quick demo to a robust, scalable AI solution.

The road to 2603. The upgrade path from VMware horizon to Omnissa Horizon 2603

Discover how VMware HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) can simplify and accelerate workload migrations into a modern VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment.

In this session, we will share a real-world customer experience migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines hosting Oracle Databases into a new VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domain using VMware HCX OSAM at SFIL.

Through this field-driven use case, we will cover:

Key architecture and design considerations for HCX
Migration workflow, challenges encountered, and lessons learned
Operational impacts, downtime expectations, and validation steps
Best practices and recommendations for future VCF migration projects

This session is aimed at VMware architects, consultants, and looking for practical guidance and real operational feedback on leveraging HCX OSAM in enterprise migration scenarios involving business-critical workloads.

It all started with one fading PowerBI report and a stubborn afternoon. What VHST, RVTools and Live Optics became when they met vibe coding is the rest of the story. What if vSphere Insight stopped being vSphere Insight?

Security and Compliance does not always require endless spreadsheets, PDFs, Docs and manual tasks.
In this session we explore how the MITRE Security Automation Framework (SAF) can support use cases which require a standardized, automated compliance pipeline. An approach to be able to scale with the infrastructure and remove human errors.

We will walk you through a use case auditing an environment which needs to fulfill special security requirements by extending VMware DISA STIG compliance checks.

You will be introduced to a framework built on open source tooling.

Your takeaways:
- Understanding of MITRE SAF
- How to extend existing STIG profiles
- A live demo of a framework built on open source toolsets