7/15/10 WI-VMUG Meeting in Madison

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: [...]

VMworld 2010 - Just around the corner???

I just registered for VMworld 2010 the other day.  Tonight I happened to get one of VMware’s VMworld 2010 marketing emails and I thought VMworld isn’t really all that far off.  If you’re as busy as I am (as most of us in IT usually are) it will come upon you in a hurry.

Personally I [...]

WI-VMUG User Conference

Thursday, April 22nd is the first Wisconsin VMUG User Conference.
Registration is now available here.

Registration is capped at 450 and there were 435 people registered as of 4/19 AM.

A few things to take note of:

The venue for the event is the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha.
The event agenda is [...]

Attendance #’s for WI-VMUG meetings

I put on my first WI-VMUG meeting in December of 2007. As of the March 4th, 2010 meeting in Neenah, I have done a total of 12 WI-VMUG meetings with 4 each in the Milwaukee, Madison and Fox Valley areas.

Here are the registration and attendance numbers for those 12 meetings:

# of meetings
12

# Milw meetings
4

# [...]

03/04/10 WI-VMUG Meeting

The next Wisconsin VMware User Group Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 4th.

Our sponsors are Trend Micro and NetApp.
Agenda

8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsors Trend Micro and NetApp
9:00 Welcome
9:05 NetApp presents Virtual Server Deployment, Backup, and Disaster Recovery with VMware and NetApp by Mike [...]

1/12/10 WI-VMUG meeting

The next WI-VMUG meeting is being held on 1/12/10 at Promega/BTC in Madison.

This is the meeting that was originally scheduled for 12/9/09 until Mother Nature intervened.

The meeting sponsors are Compellent and Hyper9.
Agenda

8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Hyper9
9:00 Welcome
9:05 Hyper9 presents Take Back Time: Virtualization Best Practices – Reporting by Zahid [...]

12/9 WI-VMUG meeting is postponed!!

Due to forecasts for 8-14″ of snow and 20+ mph winds for Tuesday night through early afternoon Wednesday I have decided to postpone the WI-VMUG meeting scheduled for Wednesday 12/9.

The new meeting date is Tuesday January 12th, 2010.  Everything other than the day has remained the same; time,  place, sponsors and agenda.

There is no need [...]

12/9/09 WI-VMUG meeting in Madison

The next WI-VMUG meeting is being held on 12/9/09 at Promega/BTC in Madison.

The meeting sponsors are Compellent and Hyper9.
Agenda

8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Hyper9
9:00 Welcome
9:05 Hyper9 presents Take Back Time: Virtualization Best Practices – Reporting by Zahid Ghauri; Director, Systems Engineering

Discussing virtualization best practices and technology around storage, VM sprawl, [...]

Followup to 9/24 WI-VMUG mtg

Attendance was as follows:
Registered: 175
Signed-in: 87
Headcount: 95
Headcount was only 54% of registered.  This was well below the 72% overall average I now have for all meetings as well as being well below the 66% that I am averaging for Milwaukee area meetings.
For those of you who registered and didn’t attend, can I get some insight [...]

Sept. 2009 WI-VMUG meeting

The next WI-VMUG meeting is set for Thursday, September 24th.

This meeting is being hosted by ProHealth Care in Waukesha.

N17 W24100 Riverwood Drive, Waukesha, WI 53188
Directions: http://bit.ly/hq8h

See comment below with parking information

Agenda

8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor EMC
9:00 Welcome
9:05 VMware ThinApp Presentation: Dean Flaming, VMware ThinApp Specialist

Product Overview (What it is)
Technology Overview [...]