2013 UKVMUG Agenda
There's now an agenda posted for next month's UK VMUG in Birmingham. As you can see, it's got some cracking sessions in it.
If you haven't registered yet, or you want to check the agenda out for yourself, head over to the VMUG site.
TIME | EVENT | LOCATION |
Wednesday, November 20,2013 | ||
7:00 -9:00 pm | Pre-Reception vCurry – Veeam | Bracebridge Suite |
Thursday, November 21, 2013 | ||
8:00 – 8:30 am | Registration | Breakfast | Mingle with Sponsors | Trafalgar Foyer |
8:30 – 9:00 am | VMUG Welcome | Alaric Davies | Britannia Suite |
9:00 – 9:45 am | VMware Keynote | Joe Baguley, VMware CTO EMEA | Britannia Suite |
9:45 10:00 | Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
10:00 – 10:45 am | Breakout Block #1 | Education Sessions | |
50% Faster VMs on the Hardware You Have!, Condusiv | Bracebridge Suite | |
Convergence and Scalability in Your Datacenter. Bringing Google like Infrastructure to the Enterprise, Nutanix – Jason Langone | Ballacraine Suite | |
Splunk | Waterloo Suite | |
Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs, Veeam | Britannia Suite | |
Community Session | Securing VMware Virtual Environments, Sam McGeown | Kirkmichael Suite | |
10:45 – 11:15 am | Break | Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
11:15 – 12:00 pm | Breakout Block #2 | Education Sessions | |
VMware Virtual SAN – All You Wanted to Know, VMware – Cormac Hogan | Bracebridge Suite | |
vCHS, VMware – Massimo Re Ferre | Ballacraine Suite | |
Knowledge Exchange by Duncan Epping, VMware. This session is all about exchanging knowledge and experience amongst each other, bringing the User Group back in VMUG. No death by Powerpoint, instead Duncan will coin buzzwords ranging from Flash to SSO to start the discussion. | Waterloo Suite | |
Management Automation, VMware – Matthew Steiner | Britannia Suite | |
Community Session | 0 Day Installation, Maish Saidel-Keesing | Kirkmichael Suite | |
12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch / Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
1:00pm – 1:45 pm | Breakout Block #3 | Education Sessions | |
Software Defined Storage – From Desktops to Servers and Beyond, Atlantis Computing – Dan Senior | Bracebridge Suite | |
EMC | Ballacraine Suite | |
Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage | Waterloo Suite | |
Over-provisioning Is For Amateurs: How To Get 20-40% More Utilization Out Of Your Virtual Infrastructure, VMTurbo – Andrew Mallaband | Britannia Suite | |
Community Session | Introduction to Overlay Networking, Greg Ferro | Kirkmichael Suite | |
1:45 – 2:15 pm | Break | Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
2:15 – 3:00 pm | Breakout Block #4 | Education Sessions | |
VMware Horizon Workspace 1.5 – Implementation and Troubleshooting, VMware – Ray Heffer | Bracebridge Suite | |
NSX Technical, VMware – Scott Lowe | Ballacraine Suite | |
EUC Vision, VMware – Brian Gammage | Waterloo Suite | |
Data In; Data Out – vCHS, VMware – Mike Laverick | Britannia Suite | |
Community Session | PowerCLI Automation in the Enterprise: Breaking the Magician's Code – Jonathan Medd | Kirkmichael Suite | |
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break | Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
3:15 – 4:00 pm | Breakout Block #5 | Education Sessions | |
Software-Defined Storage: Cloud Architectures Drive Fundamental Shifts in Storage Design, Coraid | Bracebridge Suite | |
Dell, VMware and NVIDIA Working Together to Solve Your 3D Graphics Requirements, Dell | Ballacraine Suite | |
Deliver Virtual Desktops That Match the Performance of SSD Laptops, Fusion-io – Adrian Booth | Waterloo Suite | |
Discover Hybrid Storage, Tegile Software | Britannia Suite | |
Community Session | Developing vSphere/vCloud .Net Apps for Beginners, Ricky el Qasem | Kirkmichael Suite | |
4:00 – 4:15 pm | Break | Mingle with Sponsors | Imperial Suite |
4:15 – 4:45 pm | Closing Keynote by Greg Ferro | Britannia Suite |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Prize Draws and Close | Britannia Suite |