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VMworld 2011 (Las Vegas) was by far the biggest VMworld so far in many ways. Much of this is due to the great efforts of our Twitterverse and Blogosphere. Thank you all for your comments and coverage!

 

Now, it is time to prepare for VMworld 2011 Europe, heading to Copenhagen in October. Once again, we have created wiki documents to share as contributor lists for the conference.

 

Please add yourself or your events/programs to these lists if you will be providing coverage or content during VMworld 2011 Copenhagen. And please share this blog and/or these links directly to others using your social media channels.

 

Twitter coverage: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-twitter

 

Bloggers: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-bloggers

 

Gatherings, Tweetups & Parties: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-gatherings

 

Promos & Giveaways: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-promos

 

Solutions Exchange Theater Presentations: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-theater

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Hands-on Labs Ready to Rock

Posted by Tony Dunn Aug 27, 2011

Get ready to set records at VMworld 2011!

With 50 hours of labs this year, we challenge you to finish as many labs as possible with extended lab hours. Complete the most labs and be entered to win a FREE full conference pass to VMworld 2012!

- Geographically distributed Public Cloud model
- 480 lab seats, 50 lab hours, 24,000 lab seat hours

Sign-in and browse the content catalog for a full schedule of topics.  And don't forget to share your experiences and comments on Twitter. Visit our Sessions & Labs hashtag page for details on how to tweet about each lab or view postings from others.

Hands-on Lab DaysHands-on Lab Hours
Sunday, Aug. 28th 2pm - 8pm
Monday, Aug. 29th7am - 3pm and 5pm - 8pm
Tuesday, Aug. 30th10am - 10pm
Wednesday, Aug. 31st7am - 7pm
Thursday, Sept. 1st7am - 4pm
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Are you a Social Media influencer/follower, a VMware community member, a virtualization/cloud expert, or just a VMworld conference fan?  For all of these and all others attending or following the VMworld 2011 Conference, here is the guide you must view or download.

 

VMworld 2011 Social Media
"Survival Guide"

http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-socialmedia

 

Enough said... see you there or online!

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VMworld 2011 will be rocking the Twitter social streams over the next couple weeks.  If you are not on Twitter already, be sure to tune in during VMworld to observe how viral and explosive Twitter can be.  You can literally follow the entire show through tweets from attendees.

Main hashtag to use and search for is... #vmworld

View a feed of ALL VMworld mentions OR tweets from Twitter contributors
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VMworld 2011 is only days away -- are you connected?

Contributor Lists/Schedules (Las Vegas only)
- Twitter Contributors (add yourself if covering VMworld)
- Bloggers (add yourself if providing VMworld blog coverage)
- Community Lounge Meetups (propose a #vMeetup)
- VMware Community TV & Podcasting (propose a video or podcast)
- Gatherings, Tweetups & Parties (add your events)
- Solution Exchange/Booth Presentations (add your presentations)
- Promotions, Games & Contests (add your offerings)

Twitter
- Use the #vmworld Twitter hashtag in all your tweets
- Search #vmworld in your own client/browser/device for coverage
- VMworld 2011 Las Vegas Twitter Contributors (add yourself if covering VMworld)
- Official list on Twitter for VMworld 2011 U.S. (follow this Twitter list)
- VMworld Twitter feeds page on VMworld.com (follow tweets on VMworld, contributors and sessions)
- View all VMware accounts on Twitter (follow these accounts for year-round highlights)
Note: Twitter @handles will be on VMworld attendee badges this year (field from registration form)

Blogs
- VMworld Blog (subscribe to the RSS feed)
- VMworld 2011 Las Vegas Blogger List (add yourself if covering VMworld)
- VMworld Bloggers page on VMworld.com (provides feed of contributor blog posts + other blogs)
- View all VMware Blogs (subscribe to the RSS feed for each blog for year-round highlights)

Discussion Forums
- VMworld 2011 Discussion Forum and Documents/Wikis (subscribe to the RSS feed)
- VMware Community Discussion Forums (VMTN)

YouTube
- VMworld.com videos page (YouTube, VMworld Live Streaming, TheCUBE reporting)
- VMworld TV (subscribe to our channel for the latest videos)
- View all VMware playlists on YouTube

Facebook
- VMworld.com Facebook page (follow the VMworld feed)
- VMworld Facebook Wall (post questions, comments, photos -- or respond to other postings)
- View all VMware pages on Facebook ("Like" these accounts for year-round highlights)

Photos
- Post photos on our Facebook wall
- Post your photos into a Flickr account or group (be sure to tag all photos with "vmworld")
- Twitpic, Yfrog or Instagram (be sure to tag w/ "vmworld" or include #vmworld in all postings)
- VMworld.com Photos page (sign-in and post photos from the conference)

To be launched next week: "Experience VMworld 2011 Online" -- an online shared experience for the show following a daily agenda covering many of the events and activity via Twitter, Blogs, Video, Photos and more (no session access).  This is offered to provide an online show experience for anyone who can not attend the conference. It is also a great way for attendees to view more of the show content online that they miss in person.

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If you've signed up for VMworld 2011 Las Vegas, there no doubt you've started planning your schedules around sessions, meetings and networking.  NOW, here is an "unofficial" guide to (ultimately) the most important part of your schedule... the parties & gatherings!
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VMworld 2011 (Las Vegas) is fast approaching and VMworld tweets and blog postings are building momentum. To help collaboration and exposure for these social media efforts at the conference, we have created wiki documents on VMworld.com for Twitter and Blogger contributor lists.

 

VMworld attendees and non-attendees who will be contributing tweets or blog postings for can add themselves to these lists.  These lists are available for the community to view and share or to use for meet-ups and attendance checks at the conference.  We will also use this list of contributors to enable feeds of VMworld content on VMworld.com and at the conference.

 

Please share this blog and/or these links directly out to others using your social media channels:

 

Twitter Contributors: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-twitter

Bloggers: http://vmware.com/go/vmworld-bloggers

 

Questions? Follow or send a tweet to @tony_dunn

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Now that VMworld 2010 has concluded, it's time to digest and consume sessions that were offered.  If you attended VMworld 2010 in either San Francisco or Copenhagen, you have been granted full access.  If you were not an attendee, you will need a VMworld 2010 Subscription.  However, VMworld 2010 General Sessions + Super Sessions AND all content from previous VMworld conferences is free to all VMworld.com visitors.
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Tony Dunn
Cheers to the lab staff and participants at VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen.  After an amazing and record setting hands-on lab experience in San Francisco, the lab team put the lab cloud to the test, bringing the labs online in Copenhagen via PCoIP (datacenter actually back in the U.S.).  And the results were awesome yet again.
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Join the VMworld Social Media Team on Thursday as we continue to stream live video between 13:00-16:00 CET from the Social Media & Blogger Lounge at the Bella Center, Copenhagen.   Follow the live video stream on our VMworld 2010 Video page.
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Best of VMworld 2010 Europe User Awards Winners Announced
The Best of VMworld 2010 Europe User Awards were hosted on Wednesday by SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk.

And the winners are…

• Simon Gallagher, vinf.net - Best of Show
• Simon Gallagher, vinf.net - Best Remote Office/Home Office Virtualization Project
• Benny Goedbloed, Belgian Department of Justice - Best Desktop Virtualization Project
• Paul Maddock, Warwickshire College - Best Desktop Virtualization Project Honorable Mention
• Christian Manzia, Bankadati - Best Virtualization and Server Consolidation Project
• Richard Nunan, DNM Technology - Best Private Cloud Computing Project
• Daniel Pfuhl, University Hospital Leipzig - Best Virtualization for Disaster Recovery Project

Congratulations to all the winners!

  Visit Tech Target's Award Coverage
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VMworld Labs Buzzing

Posted by Tony Dunn Oct 13, 2010
If you haven't participated in the Hands-on Lab at VMworld in Copenhagen...get on over there and jump in!
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Join the VMworld Social Media Team on Wednesday as we continue to stream live video between 15:00-18:00 CET from the Social Media & Blogger Lounge at the Bella Center, Copenhagen.   Follow the live video stream on our VMworld 2010 Video page.

If you have any questions you would like to ask our host or any of the guest speakers, please send your questions or comments via Twitter and add the hashtag #vmworldlive to your tweet.

The following is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13:

15:00 - VMware in Europe
David Wright, VP Technical Resources, EMEA, VMware

15:15 - VMware vSphere PowerCLI and vSphere 4.
Dimitar Hristov, Member of Technical Staff, VMware

15:30 - Mobile solutions
Srinivas Krishnamurti, Sr. Director, Mobile Solutions, VMware

15:45 - VMware Go Pro
Paul Olstad, Director, Web Services,  Shavlik Technologies
Serge Robe,  Sr Product Marketing Manager, EMEA,  VMware

16:00 - VMware Labs
Mornay van der Walt, Director, Technical Marketing, VMware
Dan Anderson, Principal Architect, VMware

16:15 - VMware vShield Product Family
Dean Coza, Director of Product Management, VMware

16:30 - New Generation of IT Management
Rob Smoot, Director, Product Marketing, VMware

16:45 - 50,000 Seat VDI reference architecture
Chris Gebhardt, Lead VDI Architect, NetApp

17:00 - Paul Strong, CTO EMEA, VMware

17:15 - EMC
Chris Carrier, Director Marketing, EMC
Mukesh Sharma, Director Alliances, EMC

17:30 - VMware certification & education
Brian Rice, Group Product Manager, Education Services, VMware

For an archive of Tuesday's lineup, please view Tuesday's schedule.

And if you are able to embed the VMworld LIVE player code on your site or blog, here is the code:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="400" id="live_embed_player_flash" data="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf?channel=vmworldlive" bgcolor="#000000"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="channel=vmworldlive&auto_play=false&start_volume=25" /></object>

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Tony Dunn
Whether at the conference or back at home/office, we hope your enjoying VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen and coverage online.

Here is a quick look at facts and fun figures so far...
- Over 6,000 attendees
- 82 countries represented
- 113 exhibitors

so far... 14,000 bottles of soft drinks consumed
estimated... 9,000 bottles of Tubourg to be served/consumed at the Welcome Reception

VMware Hands-on Labs:
- 2,155 labs completed
- 20,397 VMs deployed

Top 10 Labs:
1. VMware View 4.5  Install and Config
2. VMware vCloud Director Install & Config
3. VMware View 4.5 Advanced
4. VMware ESX 4.1 new features
5. VMware vShield
6. VMware vSphere Perf & Tuning
7. VMware vSphere Troubleshooting
8. VMware ESXi Remote Mngmnt Utilities
9. Basic VMware vSphere Install & Config
10. VMware vSphere PowerCLI

Let the journey continue!
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VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 12 October (17.30-19.30 CET)
Solutions Exchange, Bella Center, Hall E
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