VMworld 2011 (Las Vegas) Meetups in the Community Lounge (#vMeetup)
Created on: Aug 10, 2011 6:46 PM by Tony Dunn - Last Modified: Aug 28, 2011 3:36 PM by Alex Maier
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New this year, we will offer a series of daily meetups in the VMworld Community Lounge, located just outside the entrance to the Solutions Exchange. These meetups will be focused on a topic of technical or business value to VMworld attendees and will run for 30 minute each during show hours. The following schedule is for approved meetups.
The Lounge is available for vMeetups on Monday Aug 29, 10:00-5:00pm, and during regular Solutions Exchange opening hours for the rest of the week.
Note: This list is for VMworld 2011 Las Vegas only.
For more details, please read the VMworld #vMeetup Blog
To propose your own meetup, please Submit a #vMeetup Request (list below is not for editing)
| Date | Time | Meetup Name | Meetup Description | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | ||||
| 8/29 | 10:00-10:30am | Meet VMware Press Author Mike Laverick | VMware Press, the official publisher of VMware books and training materials invites you to visit with members from the publishing program and Mike Laverick, author of upcoming VMware Press release: Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0. This title is due to publish in DEC 2011. | Mike Laverick |
| 8/29 | 5:30pm | Welcome Reception | Come meetup with community and social media peers - kick off VMworld 2011 | VMware Social Media Team |
| Tuesday | ||||
| 8/30 | 9:30-10:00am | The Secure Cloud | If cloud computing is the most talked about topic in IT, security in the cloud is a close second. As Enterprises consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as part of their overall IT strategy, questions around compliance and security in the cloud are of critical importance. Join us to discuss security and compliance within IaaS and what to look for in a cloud provider to ensure that your requirements are met. | Janel Ryan |
| 8/30 | 10:00-10:30am | K-12 Virtual desktops and the future | A discussion on what school divisions are doing, have done as far as extending the desktop to students and teachers. What kind of Network are you running, wireless, desktop access at home, anytime anywhere. What features have you been able to leverage with tight budgets in the k12 industry. | Shawn Logan |
| 8/30 | 10:30-11am | WPVMUG | Western Pennsylvania VMware User Group | Alex Musicante |
| 8/30 | 11:00-11:30 | Remoting Protocols Turned Inside Out: “How Graphics and Media Remoting Really Work” | This session will cover how the major remoting protocols differ from each other and what those differences mean for the users. It will also address how to choose the best methods to use when remoting standard graphics and multimedia output formats. | Shawn P. Bass |
| 8/30 | 11:30-12:00 | New VDI Performance Best Practices Turned Inside Out by Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) | This session provides results and best practices for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Server) workloads as found in Project “THE Virtual Reality Check.” This R&D project started in early 2009 and has involved more than 850 tests. | Ruben Spruijt, Jeroen van de Kamp |
| 8/30 | 12:00pm-1:00pm | VMware DevOps | If you are interested in leveraging VMware APIs/CLIs for integration and automation, this event is for you. Here you will meet with VMware folks who work on these technologies and others developers and system administrators like you from other companies as well. | Steve Jin (VMware) |
| 8/30 | 1:00-1:30pm | Meet VMware Press Author Cody Bunch | VMware Press, the official publisher of VMware books and training materials, invites you to visit with members from the publishing program and Cody Bunch, author of upcoming VMware Press release:Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator. This title is due to publish in DEC 2011. | Cody Bunch |
| 8/30 | 1:30-2:00pm | Meetup with David Scott | Meetup and discussion with David Scott, SVP and General Manager for HP Storage | Calvin Zito |
| 8/30 | 2:00-2:30pm | Open | ||
| 8/30 | 2:30-3:00pm | VMware Design Discussion & Study Group | This meetup is to meet face-to-face with other members of the VMware Design Discussion and Study group from LinkedIn. The meeting is also open to anyone else who is interested in checking it out or joining the group. | Sean Crookston |
| 8/30 | 3:00-3:30pm | VMware Customer Benchmarks | So how do you compare your virtualization adoption progress to your peers? This meetup will be a discussion of benchmarks that VMware is collecting from our customers that help them and us to measure the benefits of the Journey to IT as a Service and understand the value and KPIs that customers receive from VMware products and solutions. | Bob Stephens |
| 8/30 | 3:30-4:00pm | Three Amigos of UCS | Hosted by Cisco's Clint Greenwood (@cloudclint), Jeff Allen (@JeffSaidSo), Sean McGee (mseanmcgee) & Scott Hanson (@CiscoServerGeek), all of your UCS questions answered. | Clint Greenwood, Jeff Allen, Sean McGee, Scott Hanson |
| 8/30 | 4:00-4:30pm | Introducing Samsung Mobility Solutions | You can find out how virtualization technologies are enabled on Samsung mobile devices. Check the live demos and talk about the benefits in your work life. | Kiwoong Ha |
| Wednesday | ||||
| 8/31 | 10:00-10:30am | Cloud Advisors | Opportunity to meet three of the HP Cloud Advisors, HP’s leading CTOs, Evangelists and Fellows to discuss pressing cloud topics. These guys deal with major customer real world deployments. Conversations have yet to be seen as dull when the Cloud Advisors are involved. - Archie Reed, Chief Technologist, Cloud Security, HP Secure Advantage - Charles E. Bess, HP Fellow in Office of Technology and Strategy - Nigel Cook, Cloud Management Expert & Strategist | Kristie Popp (HP) |
| 8/31 | 10:30-11:00am | Are the benefits of cloud to recovery real? | A discussion on what organizations have seen - and not seen - with regards to how cloud changes applications recovery. Possible benefits expected include lower cost, faster recovery, and easier scalability; have these benefits been seen? Should they be expected. Conversely, it is not expected that cloud platform changes the recovery process itself. Has this been the case, or have shared-everything application models changed recovery in some way? Discussion lead: Kelly Baig, Dir Product Marketing at SunGard Recovery Services - speaker on this topic at upcoming DRJ and SNW conferences, as well | Kelly Baig (SunGard Availability Services) |
| 8/31 | 11:00-11:30am | What is a Private PaaS? | You've heard of a PaaS and Cloud Foundry. But why would you want a private PaaS? Come discuss the drivers for a private PaaS. Learn how ActiveState has made Cloud Foundry enterprise-ready to work with vSphere, and how Stackato works. | Diane Mueller (ActiveState Software) |
| 8/31 | 11:30-12:00pm | VMTN Moderators vMeetup | VMTN community forums are moderated by volunteer moderators from around the world. This is an opportunity for the VMTN moderators who are attending VMworld to meet each other face-to-face. | Alex Maier |
| 8/31 | 12:00-1:00pm | Moving Real-Time Voice into the Virtualized Data Center | Mitel delivers world class Unified Communications and Collaborations systems and they can be deployed today in your virtualized data center. But it is more than just being “virtualized”. It is about delivering these high value applications leveraging a consistent, cost effective and highly available methodology. | Stephen Brown |
| 8/31 | 1:30-2:00pm | 100% uptime in the cloud | Talk about what 100% uptime means, specifically in cloud situations. How do you maximize the benefits and change manage the new challenges? | David Hayes |
| 8/31 | 2:00-2:30pm | What SMBs are looking to get out of the cloud? | Looking to talk cloud with SMBs. What are your plans for the cloud and how do want it to help your business? What are your concerns with moving to cloud? Conversation to understand your journey to the cloud. | Rob Duffy (mindSHIFT Technoligies) |
| 8/31 | 2:30-3:00pm | Implementing VDI | Discuss challenges and solutions when implementing a VDI strategy with like minded IT professionals. Get your answers from those that have already gone through the process without any of the marketing. | Paul Slager |
| 8/31 | 3:00-3:30pm | Meet VMware Press Author Mostafa Khalil | VMware Press, the official publisher of VMware books and training materials, invites you to visit with members from the publishing program and Mostafa Khalil, author of upcoming VMware Press release:Storage Design and Implementation in VMware vSphere 5.0. This title is due to publish in FEB 2012. | Mostafa Khalil |
| Thursday | ||||
| 9/1 | 11:00-12:00pm | Bloggers Meetup | Meetup at the VMworld Community Lounge to recap highlights from VMworld and roundtable with other virtualization bloggers | Bloggers & vExperts |
| 9/1 | 12:00-12:30pm | Orchestrate Your Cloud | Wake up VMware's "Sleeper Cell!" Discuss benefits, use-cases and best-practices of vCenter Orchestrator. | Joerg Lew |
| 9/1 | 1:00-2:00pm | Start your virtualization blog | VMware social media evangelist John Troyer will lead a discussion for people interested in starting their own virtualization blog. We can talk about how to get started, how to differentiate yourself, how to find topics to write about, how to find *time* to write, how to network with other bloggers, or other topics of interest to the attendees. | John Troyer (VMware) |
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Simon Iddings
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I am sad to have missed those meet ups. Looking at the description of the meetups, It seems that plenty of ideas concerning
cloud computing and other IT strategies can be exchanged. Such meetups would be highly beneficial to me and other people working in the field of IT. Hopefully this year I can attend one.
cloud computing and other IT strategies can be exchanged. Such meetups would be highly beneficial to me and other people working in the field of IT. Hopefully this year I can attend one.
More details of devops (Developer/Administrator) meetup: http://www.vmworld.com/thread/5148. Please feel free to stop by. Thanks!
Steve