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Orlando VMUG for 3rd Quarter

Charles Gardner — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:15:42 +0000

The next Orlando VMUG meeting is scheduled for August 25th from 6pm-9pm.

Here are the details:

Date: August 25, 2011
Time: 6pm-9pm
Location:Z88.3
1065 Rainer Drive
Altomonte Springs, FL 32714

Go to the registration page for details and to register for the event.

VMWare Announcement – vSphere 5

Charles Gardner — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:11:16 +0000

It looks like next week we will get the official announcement of vSphere 5 as VMWare’s CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod host a live online event titled “Raising the Bar, Part V.”

The event is Tuesday July 12th at noon Eastern time, and you can jump to the registration link here.

Tampa Area VMUG Meeting April 7

Charles Gardner — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:25:29 +0000

I recently attended the Tampa Area VMWare User Group 2011 spring meeting held April 7th at TechData in Clearwater. There were valuable user presentations from the Hillsborough County Tax Collector’s office and Tampa Bay Water on their virtualization implementations. Symantec and Wyse presented vendor segments. I found the Wyse live demo of their thin clients in a View environment to be very useful.

You can pick up all the presentations from the VMWare Communities.

Tampa Bay VMUG Meeting May 19

Charles Gardner — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:55:59 +0000

The next Tampa area VMWare User Group meeting is scheduled for May 19th at TechData in Clearwater. The agenda looks to be heavy on View so it could be interesting.

Here are the details:

Location: Tech Data Corporation

5350 Tech Data Drive

Clearwater, Fl. 33760

Raymund Center Building, Seminar Room #3

Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010.

Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Snacks will be available to all attendees and Door prizes will be awarded at the close of this meeting.

For the full agenda go to the VMWare Communities:

Tampa Bay VMUG Agenda 2010-05-19

vSphere Hardening Guide

Charles Gardner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:56:35 +0000

VMWare released a first public draft of their vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide. They are soliciting feedback on this draft for the next month. Assumably we will see a final version in the spring.

The guide is broken into several PDFs covering different topics:

Take a look and give VMWare some feedback.

VMWare Users Group Tampa and Orlando

Charles Gardner — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:02:04 +0000

I had the pleasure of attending the VMWare Users Group (VMUG) quarterly meetings in both Tampa and Orlando recently.

The Tampa VMUG meeting was held April 16th at the Southwest Florida Water Management District offices. It was an informative meeting, including vendor presentations from LeftHand SAN (HP) and Riverbed.

The Orlando VMUG was May 28th at the Everest University campus. Coming right after the vSphere launch, the discussion was interesting as was the presentation by Vizioncore.

The next Tampa meeting should be in July and include EMC, VMWare, and DataDomain (per VMUG discussion).