Author: Alastair Cooke

This year will be the fourth community party before vForum Sydney. Inspired by VMunderground and designed to let the VMware community come together before the conference starts this is one of the most fun parts of vForum. This year vForum in Sydney coincides with the OpenStack Summit in Paris, where I will be producing more
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If you are going to be in Barcelona then you should present a TechTalk. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. With under two weeks to go until the conference it is time to welcome another sponsor. Brocade was another new sponsor at VMworld USA and has continued their support for
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VMworld EMEA is under two weeks away. The vBrownBag crew will be there again making more TechTalk videos in the Hang Space.

When we are recording you can find the live stream on the vBrownBag Live page.

It is not too late to propose a Tech Talk, as you can see we have a few gaps. Signup using this form.

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Please join me in welcoming another returning sponsor (my favourite kind). Infinio are this year taking on Europe, brining better storage performance on existing arrays to a whole new market. Naturally they are continuing to sponsor the #vBrownBag TechTalks, so we will be seeing them in Barcelona. If you are going to be in Barcelona
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of recording a sesion with Mike LaverickJesse StLaurent, and Steven Poitras. These gentlemen represent EVO:RAIL, SimpliVity and Nutanix respoectively. The three together represent the main players in the HyperConverged Infrastructure market. Since this market is so hot and so very different from the architectures it replaces we wanted to talk
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Great news, the vBrownBag TechTalks are coming back to vForum Sydney. For those familiar with TechTalks you can go straight to the signup form here. Tech Talks originated at VMworld 2012 where they provided an opportunity for community members, whose presentation submissions were not accepted into the main catalogue, to present the core of  a
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Yesterday was the Chicago VMUG conference and vBrownBag were there in force. Nick Marshall delivered the morning keynote, all about career progression and a session on VSOM. GS Khalsa delivered an SRM presentation ad then one on VDP 5.8. These guys are both VMware employees so were here as part of the VMware contribution to
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I cannot believe how the weeks are passing and we are getting closer to VMworld in Barcelona. We still have places for more TechTalks. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. We are delighted to have SimpliVity sponsoring the TechTalks at Barcelona, just like they did for VMworld USA.

Cisco continues to be the only company to say yes to sponsoring every single TechTalks event. Welcome back our friends at Cisco. We still have places for TechTalk presenters. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. We also have places for TechTalk sponsors both at VMworld EMEA and at the OpenStack
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Now that the dust has settled from VMworld USA you can check out all the great TechTalk videos, either as the YouTube Playlist here or on the schedule page each session is now a link to it’s video. By the way the Opening Acts videos are in this playlist. Naturally we are going to make
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We are back with another storage debate on the APAC edition of the vBrownBag podcast. This week two teams will argue for and against the statement: Fibre Channel is the walking dead of storage infrastructure, just like tape. Teams are still being arranged, but expect to hear from John, Justin, Geoff and David. If you
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Veeam is a huge supporter of the community, they have been a sponsor of many vBrownBag activities. You may have noticed Veeam’s name on fewer things in the last couple of months, but fear not they have not given up on the community. Quite the opposite Veeam are doing their own conference, VeeamON,  to bring
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Here in the ANZ region we are known for trying anything new. Starting this week the APAC vBrownBag podcast is going to host the Storage Debate. Each episode I will propose a controversial idea about storage in enterprise IT and two teams of storage experts will tell us why the idea is right or wrong.
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One of the constants in life is change,so we will be changing up a little on this site. We are starting a guest blogging program, having up and coming bloggers post a few articles here. This will help them get exposure and help you to find new perspectives and writers. Each week we will have
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It is my turn to make some VMUG pilgrimages. In September I am going to be at the Chicago VMUG summit making vBrownBag video awesome. Since it is such a long way to go I thought I’d make the most of it and also visit the SoCal VMUG Summit on my way home. Later I plan to be at the Boston VMUG Summit in October, on my way to VMworld EMEA.

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Now that VMworld USA is over for another year we have a heap of video to look over. The TechTalk videos are all linked from teh session titles below and in this playlist on YouTube. We also had a great time with the Opening Acts panel discussions, those videos are in this playlist on YouTube.

If you missed out at VMworld USA you still have a chance to present a TechTalk at VMworld EMEA in Barcelona next month. Sign up using this form.

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I’m delighted to announce SimpliVity as our sixth and final sponsor for VMworld USA 2014. SimpliVity are a hyperconverged VM infrastructure company. Their OmniCube platform uses a hardware engine for storage deduplication and compression, which also enables replication for disaster recovery. The TechTalk schedule is pretty full, but if you’d like to present, propose yours
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VMTurbo is a long time sponsor of this site, it’s great to have them also sponsoring the TechTalks at VMworld USA. VMTurbo were also a presenter at Tech Field Day, we learnt about the free market commodity trading algorithms that are used to manage resource delivery. Imagine VMs have a budget to buy things like
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