Join us, along with our sponsor Capital Data for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Thursday, October 25th, 2018.

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Meeting Agenda

8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Capital Data
8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
9:00 VMware Presentation: VMworld Update and Industry Perspective: by Nate Hudson, Sr. Solutions Engineer (@gr8n8tr0n) and Keith Townsend, Solutions Architect (@CTOAdvisor) at VMware
- Nate presents a recap of VMware announcements with from VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas along with Keith providing insight from the perspective of an industry analyst.
10:30 DellEMC Disaster Recovery to the Cloud: by Matt Murphy, Sr. Systems Engineer at Dell EMC
- Orchestrated recovery for Virtual Environments and Applications to and from public cloud.
11:00 Break
11:10 Community Presentation: Server 2019 – What’s New by Mike Nelson, Co-Leader and Technologist at Rubrik (@nelmedia)
- Let’s have a look at the latest OS version of server from Microsoft. We’ll dive into editions and licensing, patching, features, and demo’s!
12:00 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsor Capital Data
12:30 Capital Data Presentation: Can’t Contain Myself! Container Architecture and Use Cases by Adam VandeVen, Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer and Patrick Ruffino, Sr. Solutions Architect at Capital Data
- Containers are quickly becoming a standard method of deploying applications, providing a number of benefits over traditional OS and application deployments. Capital Data will be presenting an introduction to Docker container architecture and defining popular use cases for containers. We will also discuss popular methods for deploying and managing containers on-premises, such as VMware’s vSphere Integrated Containers Engine.
1:20 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Adam VandeVen, Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer at Capital Data
- Patrick Ruffino, Sr. Solutions Architect at Capital Data
- Nate Hudson, Sr. Solutions Engineer at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n)
- Keith Townsend, Solutions Architect at VMware (@CTOAdvisor)
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team
1:50 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings