UKVMUG 2012 Agenda
The dust has barely settled on VMworld Europe and the Agenda for next month's UKVMUG in Birmingham has been posted. There are multiple tracks and some big names presenting in addition to the valued event sponsors.
It'll be difficult picking between everything that's going on. For instance should I go for Duncan and Frank's Deep-Dive discussion, Alan and William's Practical Automation session or Hugo and Aidan's VCDX Boot Camp? And that's just breakout block #2!
It's interesting that there are Community sessions scheduled alongside Sponsor ones. I imagine this might be in response to some feedback from last year's event or perhaps from more recent VMUGs.
Anyway, I've copied the Agenda below for easy reference. But if you haven't registered yet, why not? It's free! Register here…
| TIME | TYPE | EVENT | LOCATION |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration | Breakfast | Mingle with Vendors | Trafalgar Foyer | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Keynote | VMUG Welcome | Alaric Davies | Britannia Suite |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Keynote | VMware Keynote | Joe Baguley | Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil? | Britannia Suite |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Break|Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Breakout Block #1 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Nimble Storage | Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Veeam | 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | Teradici | How to Enhance Your VDI Experience | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | Trend Micro | Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Ricky El-Qasem | Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 10:45- 11:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Breakout Block #2 | Education Sessions | ||
| VMware | Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman | Deep-Dive Discussion Group | Bracebridge Suite | |
| VMware | Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish | VCDX Boot Camp | Ballacraine Suite | |
| VMware | Alan Renouf and William Lam | Practical Automation for Everyone | Waterloo Suite | |
| VMware | Matthew Steiner | What's New in vSphere 5.1 | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Chris Dearden | A Techies Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Breakout Block #3 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Fusion-io | Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Embotics | Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | Coraid | Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | Quantum | The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Mike Laverick | Building my vCloud Director Home Lab | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Breakout Block #4 | Education Sessions | ||
| VMware | Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman | Deep-Dive Discussion Group | Bracebridge Suite | |
| VMware | Cormac Hogan | VMware Storage Update – 5.1: Storage features and storage futures as per announcements at VMworld | Ballacraine Suite | |
| VMware | Aidan Dalgleish | vCloud Director DR | Waterloo Suite | |
| VMware | Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard | Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Tom Howarth | Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Breakout Block #5 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Whiptail | Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Hitachi Data Systems | Storage Systems Basics for Virtualized Environments | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | VMTurbo | Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive? | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | iLand | vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Julian Wood | vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Keynote | Closing Keynote | Scott Lowe | Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT | Britannia Suite |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Prize Draws | Britannia Suite |