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VMworld Hands-on Labs going public in 2012

August 30, 11 //
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VMware Labs now has fixed data cen­ters which means that the VMworld Hands-On labs are going to be pub­licly avail­able in early 20112!

Hear Mor­nay Van Der Walt, Senior Direc­tor R&D at VMware, explain the details in this video from VMworld TV:

This is great news, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this is a really good idea.

VMworld 2011 Session Voting

May 9, 11 //
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VMware has opened the pub­lic vot­ing for the VMworld 2011 ses­sions. Per­son­ally I haven’t sub­mit­ted any­thing, but I do see a lot of famil­iar names in the vot­ing application.

The vot­ing is avail­able to any­one who has a vmworld.com account, and the vot­ing period is from May 9th to May 18th. The vot­ing is global, which means a vote for a ses­sion counts as a vote for both VMworld US and VMworld EMEA as 80% of the selected ses­sions will occur at both events. You can vote on as many ses­sions as you like, but only one vote pr. session.

There is a plethora of ses­sions, in fact there are 854 ses­sions to choose between! Thank­fully VMware has included a search appli­ca­tion that enables you to focus on your par­tic­u­lar areas of inter­est and find ses­sions that fit.

I’ve done my part and voted, and I must say that some of these ses­sions sound great! Some of the ses­sion sub­mit­ters have done a very good job with titling their sub­mis­sions, which cer­tainly helps in iden­ti­fy­ing what ses­sions to vote on. I won’t go through my entire list of votes, but a cou­ple of ses­sions caught my eye immediately:

Ses­sion ID Title Pre­sen­ters
2769 You Know You Must Dedu­pli­cate
Your vSphere Back­ups but Which Approach is Best for You?		 Ian Blatch­ford, Prod­uct Man­ager, Hewlett Packard
Doug Hazel­man, Senior Direc­tor, Prod­uct Strat­egy, Veeam Software
3276 From Epi­cen­ter to vCen­ter:
Sur­viv­ing nat­ural dis­as­ters with VMware SRM		 Christo­pher Wells, Sys­tems Archi­tect, TUV Rhein­land Japan, Ltd
1603 How VMware’s Prod­ucts Are Like a Mil­i­tary Unit Jase McCarty, Sr. vSpe­cial­ist, EMC Corporation
1425 Ask the Expert vBloggers Dun­can Epping, Prin­ci­pal Archi­tect, VMware, Inc.
Rick Scherer, Senior vSpe­cial­ist, EMC Cor­po­ra­tion
Frank Den­ne­man, Con­sult­ing Archi­tect, VMware, Inc.
Scott Lowe, CTO, vSpe­cial­ist Team, EMC Cor­po­ra­tion
Chad Sakac, VP, VMware Tech­nol­ogy Alliance, EMC Corporation
1623 Stor­age Super­heavy Weight Smack­down 2011 Cody Bunch, Blog­ger, ProfessionalVMware.com
Vaughn Stew­art, Evan­ge­list for Vir­tu­al­iza­tion & Cloud Com­put­ing , NetApp
Chad Sakac, VP, VMware Tech­nol­ogy Alliance, EMC Cor­po­ra­tion
Mike Kopo­nen, WW Solu­tions Mar­ket­ing Man­ager, Hewlett Packard
Eric Schott, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Dell Inc.

Goes to show that titling your sub­mis­sion prop­erly really does make a difference.

Go forth and vote!

VMworld.next — a couple of suggestions

October 15, 10 //
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VMware Partner NetworkNow that the VMworld events are over for 2010, I’m still try­ing to digest a lot of the impres­sions I’ve had over the past few days.

How­ever, I do have a cou­ple of sug­ges­tions I would like to voice:

  • Add con­tact infor­ma­tion to the attendee badge!

    Just like David Owen (@vMackem) sug­gested, adding Twit­ter ID and blog link to the attendee badge would make it eas­ier to keep track of every­one you meet up with. I would even take it a a step fur­ther, and actu­ally add a QR code with the con­tact info in it directly to the badge. That way, we could all run around and scan each other! (Not as dirty as it might sound!). No more need for busi­ness card exchanges, busi­ness cards you even­tu­ally lose anyway.


  • Lab avail­abil­ity at the event

    I’ve men­tioned that I want the labs extended to year round online avail­abil­ity in all it’s cloudi­ness, but how about giv­ing atten­dees the pos­si­bil­ity to run the labs from their own com­put­ers while at VMworld? Thanks for that idea, gcbal­lard!

VMworld Europe 2010 – The aftermath

October 15, 10 //
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VMworld 2010I’m back home again, after spend­ing the bet­ter part of this week in Copen­hagen, attend­ing VMworld Europe 2010.

Let me just say, straight off the bat, that attend­ing VMworld is prob­a­bly the best idea I’ve had in years. In real­ity, that’s not say­ing much, but the value of attend­ing is immense.

The way VMworld is orga­nized, with lots of simul­ta­ne­ous ses­sions, labs and other activ­i­ties is both a chal­lenge and a bless­ing. It’s a chal­lenge in the sense that you need to plan your sched­ule pretty well and really take con­trol over your own expe­ri­ence. The bless­ing is that you’re not locked into a pre­de­ter­mined path, and you can re-arrange your sched­ule at any time if you wish to do so. And trust me, you’ll plan one thing and prob­a­bly end up doing some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent in the end.
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VMworld europe 2010

October 10, 10 //
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VMworld Europe 2010 is close. Very close. In fact, lots of peo­ple are already in place in Copen­hagen, per­son­ally I don’t get until tomor­row evening (the 11th).

Since I get in pretty late, I really hope I’ll be able to get to my hotel quickly, and then find Cus­tom House for the Tweetup/VMUG Party.

Remem­ber I have a lit­tle con­test going, where you can win a copy of Trainsignal VMware vSphere Pro Series Train­ing Vol. 2.

In case you are won­der­ing how to find me, well I’m not really sure how you should go about doing that. Use your imagination!

If you do need some help locat­ing me, check my twit­ter stream and/or Foursquare and here is a recent pic­ture as well.

Good luck!

Pho­to­graphic proof that the prize exists:

The Prize