Get Your Hammer On!

The Kansas City VMware User Group, in conjunction with sponsors Dell and Intel, are proud to present a special premier event:

Lightning & Thunder!

The Lightning:

• Intel’s new Xeon E7 processor launch
• Dell’s new fast path to virtualization
• How a single, virtually integrated, end-to-end solution across servers, desktops, storage, networks, and applications can reduce cost overruns and promote a responsive and efficient infrastructure.

The Thunder:

Lunch and a private showing of Thor, one of this summer’s most anticipated movies.

Agenda

• 11am — Sign in
• 11:30 — Presentations by Intel & Dell
• 12:30 — Lunch
• 12:45 — Thor

Venue

Cinemark 14, The Palace

500 Nichols Rd

Kansas City, MO 64112

Registration is limited, so reserve your place today!

When prompted during registration, please indicate “Kansas City VMUG” as the party that invited you.

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  Intel’s new Xeon E7 processor launch


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  Dell’s new fast path to virtualization


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  How a single, virtually integrated, end-to-end solution across servers, desktops, storage, networks, and applications can reduce cost overruns and promote a responsive and efficient infrastructure.

Virtualization in the Trenches with VMware

Ars Technica has a nicely-written series on virtualization with VMware at center stage:

1. Basics and Benefits
2. Storage, Networking and Blades
3. Networking in the Enterprise
4. Performance Tuning
5. Large-scale P2V

Save The Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011

The next meeting for the Kansas City VMUG is scheduled for Thursday, June 23, 2011 from 2-4pm, at the Muehlbach Suite of the Boulevard Brewery. As we did in the first quarter, we’ll also hold a “new to VMware/new to the VMUG” Q&A session starting at 1:30pm.

Update on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:35PM by kcvmug

The sponsor for the meeting is vkernel, a provider of performance and capacity management products for virtualization platforms.

Thanks! Post-VMUG wrap-up...

Thanks to the folks at Pancetera for sponsoring our meeting yesterday at the Boulevard Brewery. Their product—Unite—is available as a 30-day trial.

Thanks, also, to Damien Bowersock of VMware for his introduction of VMware vCenter Operations.

For anyone who missed it, here’s the slide deck from the VMUG Advantage Introduction.

And finally, thanks to everyone who attended the meeting…

Save the Date: March 24, 2011

Save the date for the next Kansas City VMware User Group meeting:

• Date: 24-March-2011
• Time: 2-4pm
• Location: Boulevard Brewery; Muehlebach Suite; 2501 Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64108
• Sponsor: Pancetera
• Tentative Agenda:
  
  • 1:30pm : New user/member Q&A; Social hour
  • 2:00 : Welcome & Introductions; continue social hour
  • 2:30 : Pancetera: Tech Intro & Overview
  • 3:15 : Break
  • 3:20 : VMware Update
  • 3:30 : “last call”; giveaways
  • 3:45 : Closing Q&A, discussion
  
  
• Food and beverages will be provided thanks to Pancetera
• Watch this space, twitter and your email for official invitations with the registration link later this month or early February