VMworld US 2019 is only a month away, how are your plans for the conference? Remember to check out the vBrownBag TechTalks in the Content Catalog and book in the ones that grab you. While you are planning your VMworld time, make sure to swing by our awesome sponsors and say thanks for making the
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The Cohesity team are returning to support the vBrownBag crew to make awesome technical content at VMworld. The TechTalk schedule for VMworld US is almost full, and most sessions should be listed in Schedule Builder when it launches. Thanks to Cohesity you will be able to see the TechTalk presentations in-person at VMworld or online
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Every year since I first started looking for sponsors, Veeam has supported vBrownBag in bringing great community education content to you. This is the eighth year of TechTalks and the eighth year of Veeam sponsorship. Veeam has certainly grown and developed over those years if you have not heard about the current features of their
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Another part of Dell EMC has decided to stand with vBrownBag and support the community through vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld. You might also notice a nice Dell EMC Data Protection logo here on the web site, we may be doing some more activities with this team. TechTalk submissions are open until June 30th, this blog
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Our first sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld 2019 is Dell EMC Storage, returning for their third year supporting the TechTalks. In the past, we have heard about PowerMax, XtremeIO, and ScaleIO products from the Dell Technologies storage team. TechTalk submissions are open until June 30th, this blog post has details of TechTalks and
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It is time again, time to submit your vBrownBag TechTalk for VMworld 2019. This year there was no general call for papers for VMworld. I am expecting a larger than usual number of submissions for TechTalks and will be more selective of session acceptance. Community sessions need to show definite educational focus and value to
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The Cohesity office in San Jose is directly under the flight path to San Jose airport. For the week of the Build Day Live at Cohesity planes were flying close over our heads. It was also great for Jeffrey; his flights were from San Jose. Tracey and I had a bit more of a hike,
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The first appearance of vBrownBag TechTalks at re:Invent has snuck up on us. We have been invited by the VMware community team to be part of the VMware {CODE} booth at re:Invent and were able to grab six presentation slots for TechTalks, the full schedule for the {CODE} booth is in this blog post. The booth
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We have been running the vBrownBag podcast for years and we have also been doing vBrownBag TechTalks for years. Until now TechTalks were only accessible by visiting YouTube but now there is a new vBrownBag podcast, the vBrownBag TechTalks podcast. Now you can catch up on all the interesting TechTalks that you didn’t manage to
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For the first time, we will be making a small number of vBrownBag TechTalks at AWS re:Invent in sunny Las Vegas next month. We will be sharing a stage with the VMware {CODE} sessions and some VMware product presentations, thanks to VMTN for hosting us at re:Invent and helping us bring the vBrownBag community to
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vForum rolls into Sydney next week and the vBrownBag crew will be there, near the Dodgem cars making TechTalk videos. The TechTalk location makes more sense when you know that vForum Sydney takes place at Luna Park, a historic funfair at the north end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. If you are at vForum then you will find
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After a couple of years away, the vBrownBag crew will be at vForum Sydney this year making TechTalk videos and interviewing presenters from the main stages. If you will be at vForum you can volunteer to present a TechTalk by filling in this form. You can also see the TechTalks being recorded, although it doesn’t
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It is now nearly a month since VMworld USA and we are starting to think about VMworld EMEA, where there will be another full schedule fo TechTalks. You can already find many of these sessions in the Content Catalog for VMworld EMEA, just search for VMTN. This is also a great time to announce that
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VMworld US is over for 2018, and I hope everyone has recovered from the travel and the inevitable post-conference ills. I managed to not pack any decent shoes, just my travel slippers and a pair of sandals. As a result, I learned that new shoes and conference walking do not mix, the big blister on
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Another, very educational, Build Day Live event completed, and I still find that each event feels different. The Build Day Live with Supermicro felt like I was learning a lot about the company and not so much about the specific product that we deployed. I already knew that Supermicro is a server vendor in their own category, not an all-encompassing behemoth like some of the other big vendors but not just an assembler of components like some lower cost vendors. I knew that Supermicro designs and manufacture their servers and that their engineering is top notch. What I didn’t realize was that the engineering and manufacturing happens in San Jose for products shipped to US customers. I didn’t know how good Supermicro is at re-using engineering across product families using modular designs. I also had no idea that there are a complete range of Supermicro data center network switches.
Burnout seems to be a part of IT life, but does it need to be? We have seen a lot more people talking about stress and burnout this year and I think this is a really important topic. This year the vBrownBag crew will be part of several efforts to help you, or people around you,
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The final sponsor for the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld US 2018 is Netapp. Not only do we have a full schedule of TechTalks, but also a full roster of sponsors. It is great to have Netapp back and I’m looking forward to hearing a bit more about their product evolution. To catch the Netapp TechTalks or
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It seems that Supermicro is our new best friend, hot on the heels of last week’s awesome Build Day Live event, we have Supermicro sponsoring the TechTalks at VMworld US and EMEA. I was amazed to find that Supermicro designs and builds their products in San Jose, California as well as that they have a huge support
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Yay, Build Day Live is back in 2018. Our first event of the year is with Supermicro and will take place on August 2nd at 9 am Pacific time. We are still working out exactly what we will cram into the live stream; we will only know for sure at the end of the live
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I think that this is the seventh year that Veeam has supported the vBrownBag crew making TechTalks at VMworld US and EMEA. Thanks for the ongoing support Veeam, Ratmir, and Rickatron. More details of the TechTalks are in this blog post, and submissions are still open. Right now, we have about 160 session submissions and
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