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	Rick Scherer, Virtual Infrastructure Architect, San Diego Data Processing Corp. Getting the most ROI with Deduplication\ December 2-23, 2008 Watch this expert session video and then post questions or comments for the expert to respond to.

VMworld 2008 came to Vegas and swept the virtualizaiton industry by storm. While the physical conference may have ended, the conference sessions, labs, blogs and discussions will live on year-round.

VMworld 2008 Sessions & Labs will be posted to VMworld.com at the end of this week and will be available to all paid attendees of VMworld 2008. For breakout sessions, this includes streaming flash presentations (audio over slides), PDF downloads of all presentations and MP3 podcasts. For labs, this includes PDF downloads of all presentation and manuals.

As an added bonus, VMworld 2008 attendees will get access to all sponsor keynotes as PDFs, MP3s and streaming flash presentations. (VMware, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp, Symantec)

Check VMworld.com on Friday, 10/3 for the release of this content.

Year-round participation
Be sure to participate in discussions with the community on VMworld.com to share questions, comments and documents related to any sessions and labs you view. You can also create or continue a personal blog to share your experiences or knowledge of any session topics.

Enter the Virtual Pavilion as a fun and easy way to navigate through all VMworld.com content as a year-round virtual conference. Within the pavilion, you will find virtual exhibitor booths sponsored by virtualization vendors sharing their community offerings with visitors.

Cheers,
~Tony

Check out the video showing the community session posted on Eric Sloof''s blog at:

NTPRO.NL

Just to get a sense of the faces and voices of the VMTN community leaders.

Eric

SearchServerVirtualization.com will announce The Best of VMworld 2008 award winners today - Wednesday, September 17, 2008. The announcement takes place at 2pm at the Solutions Exchange Theatre. Don't miss this opportunity to find out which products have demonstrated market leadership and technological innovation.

VMworld 2008 is kicking off into full gear...

While preparing for your conference experience packed with "onsite" sessions & labs, join these "online" sessions from experts in the virtualization field.

And if you were unable to join us here in Vegas...well , here ya go...sessions brought to you on-demand while sitting back at your desk or even favorite couch!

		September 15 - October 3 Comprehensive Data Protection with SAN based techniques in a VMware Environment Will Urban, Product Marketing, Dell EqualLogic
		September 15 - October 3 Making Sense of Virtualization Security Amir Ben Efraim, CEO, Altor Networks
		September 1-19 Considerations and Solutions for VMware Backup & Recovery Doug Hazelman, Director of Global Systems Engineering, Veeam

Considerations and Solutions for VMware Backup & Recovery

September 1st-12th, 2008



Presented by: Doug Hazelman, Director of Global Systems Engineering, Veeam

This expert session will explore some of the common questions regarding backup
and recovery of VMware virtual environm ents. Many of these questions
can be answered by choosing the correct backup and recovery software
for your VI 3 environment. Veeam software will present their solution
called Veeam Backup.

Join this Expert Session

About Doug Hazelman: Doug manages the pre-sales technical team for Veeam Software, an award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments. Doug's thorough knowledge of Veeam solutions and how they fit into the virtual environment guides his recommendations on best practices and key considerations in managing VMware infrastructure. Doug has nearly 15 years of experience in the IT industry, having consulted and managed projects in areas such as IT infrastructure, Active Directory design, Microsoft Exchange management, Active Directory and Exchange migrations, identity management and help desk management.

Join this Expert Session

Note: The video presentation will be posted September 1st, but you can post your questions or comments ahead of time.

With VMworld 2008 fast approaching, be sure to check out all the sessions and labs from VMworld 2007 and VMworld Europe 2008. All attendee sessions from these previous conferences are now free for visitors with a VMworld Account. VMworld 2008 Sessions & Labs will be available by early October for all attendees. Keynotes sessions from the conference will be made free for all visitors to view. "Ask the Expert" Sessions, presented by virtualization experts outside the VMworld conference, will also be running throughout the year. Check the expert session schedule for the next upcoming event. http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/sessions.jspa