August Around the Corner

Holy cow! 2013 is already half over, and we’re about 5 weeks away from VMworld 2013 (US)!

We’ve got another meeting scheduled for mid-August, and we’re bringing in one of the established kings of automation—Puppet Labs—to give us a peek at their tools for bringing your manual processes back under control.

As usual, we’ll be quaffing the fine products at the Boulevard Brewing Company’s Muehlbach Suite, with a social hour preceding the technical presentations.

Registration is Free! Come and have a beer with Ben and talk automation of your vSphere environment with the gurus from Puppet!

June Meeting

Our June meeting, previously scheduled for this week on Thursday, has been moved forward a couple of hours, beginning at 12:00pm and running to 3pm.

Our sponsor and main presenter for the meeting is SimpliVity; their reps will be introducing their OmniCube converged (scale-out storage+compute) product to the community.

Agenda:

12:00: Open Networking
12:45: Welcome & Housekeeping
1:00: SimpliVity “Wouldn’t It Be Nice? Looking Into the Future of Virtualized Infrastructure”
2:00: Break
2:15: User Demos: Scripting your VMware Environments
2:45: Closing Comments

Registration over at vmug.com has already closed, but you can feel free to join us anyway!

April 2013 Meeting

It’s that time again: put a block on your calendar for the afternoon of Thursday, April 18th, as our friends at Veeam sponsor a delightful afternoon of virtualization discussions. Registration is up, and the agenda not only includes discussions with Veeam about changing trends in backup, but an introduction to Horizon Mirage and updated ThinApp support.

See you there!

Valentine's Day Event

Let VMware be your Valentine by treating yourself to an afternoon of virtualization and socialization: come to the first meeting of 2013!

Local VMware Partner IP Pathways is sponsoring the meeting, which includes an introduction to Atlantis Computing’s ILIO “VDI storage enhancer.”

The registration page for the meeting is up, and Boulevard Brewing Co. is looking forward to another great year of hosting our meetings!

Details:

Boulevard Brewing Co, Muehlbach Suite
1:30 — Sign-in | Welcome | Opening Remarks
2:00 — Atlantis Computing — Designing VDI
3:00 — Break
3:30 — VMware Update
3:45 — Prizes & Wrap-Up 

Fourth Conference shows continued growth in regional interest!

The leadership team for the Kansas City VMUG extends its warm thanks to everyone who made Tuesday’s event a big success: Sponsors, Speakers, Staff, Volunteers, and especially Attendees!

We saw huge rise in attendance, with over 800 checked-in attendees compared to 526 in 2011, once again breaking a record for our fourth outing. Non-sponsor attendees came to the event from all over the Midwest; in addition to local residents, attendees hail from California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas!

Chatting with Steve WozniakWhile it’s easy to ascribe the jump in attendance solely to the event-opening “Chat with Steve Wozniak,” it was evident from the continued traffic at sponsor booths in the expo hall and attendance at the educational breakout sessions later in the day that, while Mr. Wozniak’s session was a draw, the community of shared interest in the region is strong.

In line with that interest, 54 sponsoring organizations turned out in force on the cold morning, with an unmatched number of local partner organizations in that mix, underscoring the rich ecosystem of products and knowledgeable partners available to VMware customers.

Andre Leibovici discusses VMware’s EUC VisionOf course, the educational breakout sessions are the cornerstone of these events, and the myriad sessions presented ran the gamut from “Using social media to advance your career” to “Technical Deep Dive for vCenter” and “Automation and the API Landscape”.

The Gallery section of the site has pictures from both the event and the preceeding evening’s social event.