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DON’T MISS VMWORLD 2010
Still not registered for VMworld? You can still take advantage of the VMUG Member Discount.
You’re invited to attend VMworld 2010 from August 30–September 2 in San Francisco. Take advantage of our special $1495 pricing for VMUG members. Select from breakout sessions and hands on labs that cover topics such as leveraging the public cloud, virtualizing enterprise applications and managing desktops as a service. Meet one on one with knowledge experts and network with industry-leading technology partners.
REGISTER NOW!
Early on in process of creating the new VMUG Board of Directors and embarking on our journey to become a customer-led and customer-driven global VMUG organization it was determined that we needed to know more about you (the VMUG member), how you view the VMUG Program and what you would like to see from the VMUG Program. In order to gain this insight, we have created a VMUG membership survey.
In order for all of us to make this a successful transition we need your help and this is your first chance to help us out and to play a part in helping to shape the future of the VMUG Program.
That’s my 2 cents on the subject, the rest of this is copied from a VMUG email that went out today:
This is a friendly reminder that the VMUG membership survey is scheduled to close at the end of the day on Tuesday, August 3. If you haven’t had the chance to complete the survey yet, we invite you to do so this week. If you have already submitted your feedback—thank you!
The VMUG Board of Directors is working to shape the vision and value proposition for the new independent, customer-led, customer-driven global VMUG organization. Providing your input through the survey will ensure your voice is heard and your needs are taken into account. The survey should take about ten minutes to complete and all results will be kept confidential. In addition, all survey respondents can enter to win an Apple iPad.
We look forward to receiving your feedback. If you have any questions, please contact memberservices@myvmug.org or 1.800.606.8695.
Sincerely,
The VMware User Group Board of Directors
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VMware User Group Members,
As announced earlier this year, VMware is supporting the establishment of an independent, customer-led, customer-driven global VMware User Group (VMUG). The VMUG Steering Committee has been focused on forming the structure for this new organization and we are pleased to announce the inaugural VMware User Group Board of Directors.
| Name |
Position |
VMUG Local Group |
| Mariano Maluf |
President |
Atlanta, GA (USA) |
| Charlie Gautreaux |
Vice-President |
Charlotte, NC (USA) |
| Scott Elliott |
Secretary/Treasurer |
SW Ontario (Canada) |
| Virgil |
Director |
Brisbane (Australia) |
| Ben Clayton |
Director |
Kansas City, MO (USA) |
| Rod Gabriel |
Director |
Wisconsin (USA) |
| Matt McLaughlin |
Director |
Iowa (USA) |
| Viktor van den Berg |
Director |
Netherlands (Europe) |
| Chris Harney |
Director |
New England (USA) |
| Jodi Shely |
Director |
Omaha, NE (USA) |
| Kathi Kaplan |
VMware Board Member |
VMware |
| Teresa Streit |
VMware Board Member |
VMware |
The board is comprised of a group of experienced VMUG leaders whose knowledge, expertise and vision will provide an invaluable contribution to the VMUG organization. There is much for this Board of Directors to accomplish, as we look forward to the formal launch of the independent VMUG at VMworld in San Francisco this coming August.
The board has developed a VMUG mission statement to reflect the new organization:
The VMware User Group is an independent, global, customer-led organization, which maximizes members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events.
The VMware User Group is a user community—of the users, for the users, by the users. Through an independent global VMUG, we believe we can strengthen our collective VMware and VMUG value proposition with expanded collaboration, member programs, and benefits.
As a VMUG member, your feedback and ideas will be critical to improving the VMUG experience and taking it to the next level. We believe that some of the benefits of the new model will be:
- Tap into new VMUG member benefits and programs, such as Special Interest Groups and VMware technical education offerings
- Increase your value to your organization by becoming the recognized VMware subject matter expert through knowledge and contacts gained through VMUG
- Gain more direct access to VMware subject matter experts
- Become part of a global, collective customer voice, impacting VMware products/services
While we are planning the official launch of the new group for August, there are several ways VMUG is already driving value to the members:
- The VMUG Voice—VMUG’s monthly newsletter—will provide news and updates for members
- New member recruitment activities at all VMware events
- Development of new onsite program for VMUG Regional Events
- VMware Technical Sponsors have been assigned to all VMUG Local Groups
- VMUG members will receive the discounted “Early Bird” pricing throughout the VMworld registration period
As we work to establish an independent VMUG, we want you to know that your voice will be heard. To that end, the VMUG Board of Directors is conducting a short survey of our members to better understand the members’ vision for VMUG and define the VMUG value proposition. It should only take about ten minutes of your time and all results will be kept completely confidential. In addition, all survey respondents can enter to win an Apple iPad—just complete the survey by July 30.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas about the new organization. Please direct all communications to memberservices@myvmug.org or 1.800.606.8695.
Together we look forward to launching the new VMUG at VMworld and we hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
The VMware User Group Board of Directors |
Please join us for the upcoming Wisconsin VMware User Group meeting on Thursday, July 15th in Madison, WI. This meeting is sponsored by Altor Networks and Unidesk.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology.
Agenda
- 8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsors Altor Networks and Unidesk.
- 9:00 Welcome
- 9:05 Altor Networks presents Identifying and addressing security risks and challenges in the virtual environment by Paul Vettoretti (BSEE, CCSA) – Regional Manager
- With virtualization growing in the industry, customers are trying to understand how they can virtualize servers for the first time or virtualize additional servers. Challenges and concerns include security, compliance, inter-group coordination, performance and more. Altor Networks developed a purpose built virtual firewall to address these challenges for companies, educators and government agencies (Ericsson, Revlon, Syracuse Univ, US Army, US Fed Reserve, etc.). Join Paul for a discussion of virtualization security issues and a product demo.
- 10:00 WI-VMUG Member Presentation presents The Trails and Tribulations of Migrating to vSphere 4 from an IT Guy’s Perspective by Mike Nelson, Sr. Analyst II SME – Virtualization at Kimberly-Clark.
- Migrating a small ESX 3.x server deployment to vSphere 4 might seem like a daunting task to some, but try migrating a global environment of 130 hosts with over 2,000 guests and it will give you a whole new perspective on things. In this short presentation, I’ll give some of the things to plan for, obstacles encountered, and the successes and failures that came about in my situation.
- 10:30 Break
- 10:50 Unidesk presents Implementing VDI and VMware View: Strategies for Success by Ron Oglesby, Unidesk Chief Solution Architect
- Ron will review the personalization, management, and storage challenges IT organizations face when implementing VDI based on his experiences as virtualization practice lead for Dell and Glasshouse. He will then share how customers are using the just-released Unidesk management platform to drive broader end user acceptance of VMware View while reducing storage footprint and image management complexity.
- 11:45 Wrap-up: Q&A, announcements, drawings
- 12:15 Lunch: Our lunch is provided to courtesy of our meeting sponsors Altor Networks and Unidesk. This is a great opportunity for further networking with your fellow VMware users as well as today’s presenters.
The meeting will be held at the Promega/BTC facility.
5445 East Cheryl Parkway
Madison, WI 53711
Directions
Google Maps
Onsite Registration Packet
Sunday, August 29 from 2:00 – 6:00pm
Onsite registration will be open on Sunday to pick up your registration packet and conference badge.
Don’t miss out on the Extra Mile Customer Reception
Sunday, August 29 from 6:00 – 9:00pm
Stop by Jillian’s Billiards and meet with VMware executives, product managers, engineers, TAMs, SEs along with other VMUG leaders.
VMUG Member’s Lunch
Monday, August 30 from 12-2pm – Room 103 (across from the Solutions Exchange)
Join the VMUG for lunch! It’s a great opportunity to network with your local members, VMUG members from around the world and VMUG leaders.
Special guest speaker: TBA
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