This weekend begins the 2012 Partner Exchange (PEX) conference for VMware (Twitter hashtag #VMwarePEX). The Catalog of all sessions is available online.

I will be there and hope to see you. Here is a quick list of all the dedicated security and compliance presentations:

• Ravi Kumar, Eric Horschman – (CIM1250) Selling the VMware Advantage for Business Continuity and Security
• Rob Randell, Jeff Szastak – (CIM1248) Using vShield and vCenter Configuration Manager to Achieve Better Than Physical Security for Business Critical Applications
• Jeremiah Cornelius, Scott Sloan – (TEX1517) Security Partner Opportunity and Enablement for Partners in the New Data Center
• Ana Seijas – (CIM1275) Securing the Virtual Infrastructure – Preparing for the Cloud
• Wen Yu, Simon Mijolovic – (EUC1478) Tips, tricks and lessons learned in designing a vDaaS (virtual desktop as a service) with end to end secure multi-tenancy
• Ravi Kumar, Ibrahim Rahmani – (CIM1372) Panel Discussion – Partner’s Best practices in Selling and Delivering Virtual Security
• George Gerchow, Davi Ottenheimer – (TEX1543) Compliance Audit Validated Industry Specific Architectures
• Grant Suzuki – (CIM1349) VMware vShield App Security Deep Dive
• Ben Del Vento – (CIM1409) Compliance and Security: A holistic approach from the bottom up
• Alka Gupta – (EUC1504) VMware Horizon App Managerâ„¢ – a user-centric management service for securely accessing private and public cloud applications from inside an Enterprise
• George Gerchow, Davi Ottenheimer – (CIM1526) Achieving a Trusted Cloud – vCM, VIN, vShield Technical Overview

And if you are attending the VMware Customer Council please consider joining our session on Sunday at 10am, where we will discuss the latest progress and development in compliance automation for virtual and cloud environments. I will be there to answer questions about SCAP and the new hardening guide for vSphere5.