I love CloudCamp (or “geekfest” as my wife calls it). The next event is on Wednesday 24th April and it’s back in “The Crypt”.
The topic for this time is “Software Defined Data Centres” – expect some interesting lightning talks and discussions.
Register soon, spaces tend to fill up quickly.
Registration for the second London VMUG of the year is open. As usual, it will be at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (33 Queen Street, London, EC4R 1AP) between 8:30 and 17:00 and there will be vBeers afterwards.
The sponsors for this event are VMTurbo, Nimble Storage and Veeam.
The agenda is yet to be finalised but it’s likely to be awesome as usual. What are you waiting for? Head over to the VMUG website, register and stick it in your calendar before someone sticks a different meeting in there!
Update: 16/04/2013
The agenda was published a week or so ago. Lots of great sessions on there:
| Time | Capital A | Capital B | Square Room |
| 8:30 | EVENT RECEPTION | ||
| 10:00 | Welcome | ||
| 10:15 | Shmuel Kliger, Founder VMTurbo Software-Defined Control – Transforming IT Operations | ||
| 11:00 | Greg Ferro, packetpushers.net Don’t Do Virtual Networking, Do Cloud Networking. | Darren and Gregg The Virtual Community, Social Media & You | |
| 11:45 | Break in Thames Suite | ||
| 12:15 | Barry Coatsworth, How InfoSec Can Improve Your Love Life | Robbie Jerrom, VMware A Puppet Primer | Atlantis Computing Lab |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Nick Dyer, Nimble Storage Flash-Optimized Hybrid Storage Engineered For Maximum Efficiency | Hans de Leenheer, Veeam Making Cloud Storage Easy to Use | |
| 15:00 | Peter von Oven, VMware VMware Horizon Update | Kim Ranyard, VMware vCAC Part Deux, The Return | Atlantis Computing Lab |
| 16:00 | Dave Burgess, VMware SDN For Beginners | Stuart Thompson and Lee Harris, Heterogeneous vCD | Atlantis Computing Lab |
| 17:00 | Close | ||
| 17:15 | Onward Drinks at Pavilion End | ||
I’m a long standing member of the London VMUG (that being the VMware User Group) but I’ve also on occasion been to Virtual Machine User Group (VMUG) meetings as well when I’ve been able to find the time.
The Virtual Machine User Group have a meeting coming up in Birmingham on Tuesday 12th March 2013. The published agenda is:
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Vendor Market, Welcome Address and Refreshments | |
| 10:00 – 10:50 |
VMware vCloud Director & vSphere 5.1 |
VeeamVeeam Modern Data Protection |
| 11:00 – 11:50 |
App Cogs Virtualisation for Sharepoint Professionals |
Proact Getting Started with NetApp Filers |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Vendor Market, Lunch and Special Interest Groups | |
| 13:00 – 13:50 |
The Bunker Panel Debate: Is the cloud secure? |
Microsoft HyperV Version3 – What you need to know |
| 14:00 – 14:50 |
10ZiG Simplifying EUC Management |
Trend Micro Securing Your Journey Through The Cloud |
| 14:50 – 15:15 | Vendor Market & Refreshments | |
| 15:15 – 16:05 |
Riff Cube Is Cloud Computing the Silver Lining to PR |
Freeth Cartwright LLP IT Law |
| 16:15 – 17:05 |
EMC The Storage & Virtualisation Roadmap |
Citrix Any App, Any Desktop, Any Data, Any Device, Anywhere |
Register here, it’s free but spaces are limited.
In case you’re wondering what the difference between a VMware and Virtual Machine User Group is (in their own words):
VMware User Group
The VMware User Group (VMUG) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events.
Virtual Machine User Group
We are an association of persons with a vested interest in the successful deployment of virtual infrastructure and their associated technologies. The committee are all volunteers and are directly employed to manage and design virtual infrastructure in their organisations.
You know that I love my VMUGs. They’re great events that offer plenty of opportunities to meet new people, network, learn a thing or two and – best of all – they’re free to attend!
Thursday 24th January 2013 see’s this year’s first London VMUG occurring at the usual place near Mansion House tube station:
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
33 Queen Street
London, EC4R 1AP
There are some great presenters and subjects on the agenda, including the event’s sponsors – Nutanix, 10 ZiG and Zerto. There are usually a few prizes / giveaways on offer and I’m adding to that pot with a couple of VMware Fusion 5 Professional licenses…
If you can’t make the event itself then there’s always vBeers nearby afterwards.
It’s well worth attending, register on the VMUG website here.
Here’s the Agenda:
| 8:30 | Event Reception | |
| 10:00 | Welcome | |
| 10:15 | Nutanix Plenary Presentation | |
| 11:00 | Your Journey to the Post-PC Era | Brian Gammage, VMware |
| 11:45 | Break in Thames Suite | |
| 12:15 | EUC Panel with VDI Gurus | Brian Gammage, VMware |
| Deploying vCD 5.1 and VXLAN | Dan Senior | |
| VMware HA Deepdive | Eric Sloof | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Zerto Presentation | |
| 10Zig Presentation | ||
| 15:00 | Big Data for the Uninitiated | Stu Radnidge |
| Update – What’s Here and What’s Coming Soon | Spencer Pitts, VMware EUC | |
| VMware HA Deepdive | Eric Sloof | |
| 16:00 | VMware Certification Update | Gregg Robertson, Xtravirt |
| vCAC | Kim Raynard, VMware | |
| VMware HA Deepdive | Eric Sloof | |
| 17:00 | Meeting close | |
| 17:15 | Onward Drinks at Pavilion End | |
Now we are all back in the swing after the festive period, we at vSpecialist.co.uk would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year for 2013.
We look forward to meeting-up with you at some point through the year, be it at a LonVMUG meeting (next one coming soon: 24th Jan 2013), the UK VMUG (2012 conference details here), or at one of the VMworld conferences.
Cheers.
Jeremy & Mike.
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