This Thursday 15th November 2012 at the National Motorcycle Museum will be the second annual UK wide VMware User Group meeting.
The user group meeting is a great place to go and meet people who use VMware products and learn the latest & greatest or even the oldest & unsupported.
If you want to attend this free event get on over to http://www.vmug.com/e/in/eid=373
If that’s not enough to entice you to come along here’s the jam-packed agenda!
| TIME | TYPE | EVENT | LOCATION |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration | Breakfast | Mingle with Vendors | Trafalgar Foyer | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Keynote | VMUG Welcome | Alaric Davies | Britannia Suite |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Keynote | VMware Keynote | Joe Baguley | Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil? | Britannia Suite |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Breakout Block #1 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Nimble Storage | Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Veeam | 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | Teradici | How to Enhance Your VDI Experience | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | Trend Micro | Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Ricky El-Qasem | Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 10:45- 11:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Breakout Block #2 | Education Sessions | ||
| VMware | Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman | Deep-Dive Discussion Group | Bracebridge Suite | |
| VMware | Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish | VCDX Boot Camp | Ballacraine Suite | |
| VMware | Alan Renouf and William Lam | Practical Automation for Everyone | Waterloo Suite | |
| VMware | Matthew Steiner | What’s New in vSphere 5.1 | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Chris Dearden | A Techie’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Breakout Block #3 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Fusion-io | Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Embotics | Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | Coraid | Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | Quantum | The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Mike Laverick | Building my vCloud Director Home Lab | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Breakout Block #4 | Education Sessions | ||
| VMware | Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman | Deep-Dive Discussion Group | Bracebridge Suite | |
| VMware | Cormac Hogan | VMware Storage Update – 5.1: Storage Features and Storage Futures | Ballacraine Suite | |
| VMware | Aidan Dalgleish | vCloud Director DR | Waterloo Suite | |
| VMware | Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard | Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Tom Howarth | Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Breakout Block #5 | Education Sessions | ||
| Sponsor | Whiptail | Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff | Bracebridge Suite | |
| Sponsor | Hitachi Data Systems |Making vCenter Smarter with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director advanced integration | Ballacraine Suite | |
| Sponsor | VMTurbo | Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive? | Waterloo Suite | |
| Sponsor | iLand | vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon | Britannia Suite | |
| Community | Julian Wood | vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers | Kirkmichael Suite | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Break | Mingle with Vendors | Imperial Suite | |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Keynote | Closing Keynote | Scott Lowe | Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT | Britannia Suite |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Prize Draws | Britannia Suite |