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North East England VMUG – Thurs 26th of November

Nov 022015

The next North East VMware User Group meeting will be on the 26th of November.

We’re keeping things fresh with a new venue. Campus North is a cool tech based venue and we hope that you like it. http://campusnorth.co.uk/

We have a pretty awesome agenda for you, the highlights are:

Zerto are speaking about ensuring IT availability.
Lee Dilworth is speaking about SRM across stretched clusters, a subject that im very interested in at the moment.
I love community presentations, its what the VMUG is all bout, and we have Nick Evans talking about a real world Zerto deployment by a REAL North East company.
Nimble are a NE VMUG favourite sponsor and are back again speaking to us consolidating to their hybrid array.
Michael Armstrong is talking NSX. For anyone who knows Michael this will be a great session as there isnt much he doesn’t know about NSX.
Andy Ferguson is giving us another community presentation is talking about the benefits of automation in the real world.

We also have a pretty cool set of giveaways.

Apple TV Battle
UFO Twin Pack Hubsan
H107C Nexus 9 Tablet
Apple iPad
Airtonbus Smart TV
Kodi Fitbit flex
Wireless VMware VMUG membership with lots of non – production licenses values at over £5000
10 Pluralsight CBT
30 day training passes

Please check out the VMUG page and register as early as you can. It will be great to see you there.

https://www.vmug.com/p/cm/ld/fid=11881&source=5

North East England VMUG – March 13th 2014

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Jan 212014

Well 2014 has continued at the same momentum as the back end of 2013 for me. A slightly slower pace would be nice but as they say ‘its better to be busy than bored’.

But if like me you want to get out of the rat race for a day and come and learn some cool tech and experiences from the community then defiantly come along to the North East England VMUG.

This is my first VMUG on the leadership team and you will also get the pleasure (more likely displeasure) of my voice as MC for the day.

Also for the first time we have a round table session before the main show. For those that have attended the London VMUG these have proved hugely popular down south and having a community discussion really gives you a knowledge of where the industry is at and what innovative things people are doing. There’s no specific topic so we will just chew the fat on what is hot right now and has the communities interest.

It would be great to have a big crowd there for this event and show the North East is as eager to participate in the community as the rest of the country. There will also be some top speakers with Lee Dilworth and Hani El-Qasem speaking along with Michael Armstrong covering some great topics.

So come Join us on the 13th of March at the CastleGate for a great day.

Agenda:

11:00 Hot Topic Round Table: Join Us for a Roundtable Discussion on the Community’s
Hottest Topics
12:00 Registration, Food, and Drinks
12:30 VMUG Introduction
12:45 Nimble Presentation: Nimble Customer
13:30 Networking Break
13:45 VMware Presentation: vSphere 5.5 – What’s New
14:30 Networking Break
14:45 Community Presentation: “Home Labs” with Added Demo – Michael Armstrong
15:30 Networking Break
15:45 VMware Presentation: vSAN
16:45 Meeting Close and Raffle
17:00 vBeers at Bridge Hotel – Sponsored by 10Zig

A big thanks to Nimble Storage and 10Zig for sponsoring the event.

North East England VMUG Meeting–3rd of October

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Sep 242013

Its fair to say its been a while since I have posed anything on my blog.

As im sure many of you will know, sometimes real life gets in the way of these types of pursuits. As a result I was not awarded vExpert 2013 Sad smile

However, this will be changing!! I have decided to make time and get back into the community as much as I can. VMUGs are an awesome way of not only gaining some useful information but are a great incentive to be active in the community, and you meet some cool peeps.

On the 3rd of October I will be speaking at the North East VMUG for the first time. As I have been revising for some certs recently I thought VMware certification would be a good topic to cover.

VMware certification has come along way since I first became a VCP (way back in 2008 now,im getting old) and with the latest announcements around the new Associate qualifications there is a wealth of levels you can now cover.

As im pursuing my VCDX currently (fairly early in the process) I thought it might also be fun to have a little interactive session with the audience, a mini defense task perhaps. The person I think did best job will get a copy of John Arrasjids (and others) VCDX Boot Camp book.

As you can see the line up is awesome (well, ignoring me obviously), so im sure it will time well spent.

Joe Baguley, VMware – Keynote
David Owen – Training & Certification
Andrew Wood, Atlantis Computing – Delivering on the VDI Reality
Dan Watson, VMware – NSX
vBeers: We will adjourn at 5pm and reconvene at The Bridge Hotel for vBeers and a buffet courtesy of SITS Group

If you are North East based and can make the 3rd please do come along.

VMware User Group–North East (UK)

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Nov 162011

As ever I’m always keen on promoting VMware in my home area of the North East. Even though I live pretty much as far away as its possible to be in the UK from my beloved Sunderland I still like to keep my finger on the pulse.

The North East is about to get its first VMUG on December 6th at Ramside Hall Hotel & Golf Club (just outside of Sunderland).

Agenda

VMware – The Story so Far
The Future of Virtualisation Technologies
Open Forum
AOB

While this is not up there with the mini VMworld agenda of the last UKVMUG it gives the opportunity to guys in the field of virtualisation to come and ask question of VMware employees and get technical updates.

The networking opportunities are always great at these events so if you are in the North East then you should try and get to this event.

There’s also a Twitter account to follow: @NorthEastVMUG

I doubt Ill be able to get up there and attend myself but ill be up soon so keep an eye out for a vBeers event.