UKVMUG - There's Still Time (03/11/2011)!
Next week sees the UK's first national VMUG taking place and there's still time to register for it.
For anyone who hasn't been to one before, VMUGs (VMware User Groups or Virtual Machine User Groups depending on who you ask) are regular meetings of virtualisation users held around the world. I'm a regular attender of the London VMUG (Twitter: @LonVMUG or hashtag #LonVMUG) and have been for a few years now. For a while now though there have been rumours of a UK-wide VMUG and it's happening for the first time on Thursday 3rd November 2011 in Birmingham.
Within the UK there are three regular VMUGs that I'm aware of: London, Northern and Scottish. This UKVMUG is intended to bring users from those three and from across the country to one location for a day. And what it day it looks like being!
VMUGs recently have started experimenting with having two or more “tracks” running at the same time allowing attendees to pick and choose different sessions throughout the day. The most recent London VMUGs have had two tracks but the UKVMUG will have up to four. Lots to pick from!
Add to that the opportunity to meet and chat with some of the brightest and well connected brains in the business. It's a learning and networking opportunity not to be missed – and it's free to register. Just take a look at the agenda!
| Time | Track1 | Track2 | Track3 | Track4 |
| 08:00 | Registration Breakfast, Mingle with Vendors |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | VMUG Introduction and Welcome from VMUG Steering Committee | |||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Keynote Joe Baguley – VMware Chief Cloud Technologist |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break, Mingle with Vendors | |||
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Partner Sessions | |||
| Hitachi Data Systems Accelerating your Cloud Infrastructure |
Symantec Backup Exec and VMware: Best Practices |
Xangati Blame Wars: The VI Admin Strikes Back |
Actifio Virtualization comes to Data Management |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break, Mingle with Vendors | |||
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Community Sessions | |||
| Duncan Epping/Frank Denneman – vSphere 5.0 Clustering Q&A | Cormac Hogan vSphere 5.0 New Storage Features | Dan Watson Security in the Virtual World | Julian Wood vSphere 4->5 upgrade | |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Break, Mingle with Vendors | |||
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Partner Sessions | |||
| Xsigo Under the Hood with Virtual I/O Technology, and How VMware Uses It to Do More |
Veeam Virtualization Data Protection, It’s Not Niche Anymore |
Arista Networks Integrating Private and Public Clouds with Real World Networks |
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| 13:45 – 14:00 | Break, Mingle with Vendors | |||
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Community Sessions | |||
| Duncan Epping/Frank Denneman – vSphere 5.0 Clustering Q&A | Cormac Hogan vSphere 5.0 New Storage Features | Dan Watson Security in the Virtual World | Simon Gallagher vTardis | |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Break, Mingle with Vendors | |||
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Partner Sessions | |||
| Coraid Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture |
CommVault Protecting and Managing Data in Growing VMware Environments |
Embotics Live Demonstration: Transforming Private Cloud Hype to Private Cloud Doing |
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| 15:45 – 16:15 | Mike Laverick – “Cloud Journey – Bumps in the Road” | |||
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Wrap-up and prize drawing | |||
If you're considering going, don't wait too long. Head on over to the MyVMUG site and sign up. Then just get yourself to Birmingham next Thursday:
National Motorcycle Museum
Coventry Road
Bickenhill, Solihull, West Mids, B92 0EJ
The nearest train station is “Birmingham International”. And if you happen to be nearby the night before, Veeam are laying on vCurry from 7pm the night before.