Author: Alastair Cooke

I really like when sponsors want to work with vBrownBag for multiple events and over multiple years. It says that they see the value of getting close to the community of people who use their products to solve business problems. Cisco has sponsored every TechTalk event that vBrownBag has ever done, and we’re delighted to
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We now have three confirmed sponsors for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA 2014. I know Brocade from many years ago as a Fibre Channel switch vendor. For a few years they have been moving into Ethernet switching and of course into software defined networking. I particularly like the Vyatta router, which runs beautifully in
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I’ve been working with Infinio since the day they went public, at Tech Field Day 9, and really like the people there. Infinio are the our second sponsor for the TechTalks at VMworld USA in 2014. As another helper for the community Infinio are giving away a full conference pass, follow this link to enter
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I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor of this year’s TechTalks at VMworld USA, Coho Data. Coho have a very interesting product that combines very smart software and SDN with commodity hardware to form a high performance scale out storage array. I had the pleasure to be present at Virtualization Field Day 3 in March
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It seems to be that time of year again. The VMworld session voting is over and the accept / reject emails are flying. If your proposed session has not been accepted then the vBrownBag crew can help you to get the message from your presentation out. For the third year we will be running TechTalks 
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As has been intimated on Twitter and through teasers on the vCommunity Podcast, the #VMunderground and #vBrownBag teams have joined forces for 2014 to bring a new type of community-driven event to anyone willing to come into San Francisco for VMworld 2014 a little bit early. While it’s true that the mission of the two
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This week I’m starting a new series. With Irfan Ahmad from Cloud Physics as my guest to talk about performance troubleshooting for a few episodes. We will run every second Thursday evening at 9PM New Zealand time. You can find details at this page on my blog, signup for the series here or wait for
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Please join me in welcoming Cisco as a sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack summit in Atlanta. Cisco has been a long time supporter of the vBrownBag so we’re really pleased to have them with us on this adventure. It’s not too late to submit a session, signup here. To check out the
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Below is the schedule for the TechTalks at the summit, when the sessions are uploaded to YouTube I will link each session from here. For presenters and those who would like to see the presentations live we will be in room B207, stop by and say hi. All the videos have been uploaded to YouTube
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Great news, Rackspace has signed on to be the second sponsor for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack summit in Atlanta. We are delighted to have Rackspace on board as we are racing towards the summit. We already have 30 sessions proposed, and we plan to accept every session. Details of where to signup and
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I hope everyone is locked and ready to go next week, VMworld Europe is a great event and I’m personally disappointed that I’m going to be asleep in New Zealand while my buddies are having fun in Barcelona. The #vBrownBag crew will be there, Gregg has the shortest trip and will be joined by Kyle,
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Below is the schedule for the #vBrownBag TechTalks in Barcelona. We are still receiving new submissions so keep an eye on it as we approach the event for updates. See you all soon! Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday 10:30 – 11:00 vExpert Hour vExpert Hour vExpert Hour 11:00 – 11:15 Joerg Lew – Make your automation stopgaps
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Here at vBrownBag global HQ we are hard at work plotting to make vBrownBag more awesome.  One thing we know is that the most awesome thing about vBrownBag is you, the community, so it’s time to ask what you think. Please take two minutes to fill in the quick survey we’ve put together and let
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Another VMworld USA is over and we’re all slowly catching up on sleep. The vBrownBag Tech Talk videos are now up on YouTube, you can find links to all the videos either on the original schedule web page or on this YouTube playlist. Huge thanks go to the nearly forty community members who prepared and
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VMworld is under way and so the #vBrownBag activities are also underway.  Starting Monday we will have the TechTalks happening in the communities lounge, behind the escalators in Moscone South. The TechTalks are also available streaming online for those not attending in person and (when I sort that out) on YouTube so you can view
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