2015 UserCon

The time is almost upon us! On Tuesday, June 16th, one of the biggest VMware User Group events this side of VMworld will open, with a Welcome Reception the night before, Monday June 15th.

As always, our sponsors make it possible, and there is no cost to register! {registration link}

Agenda:

Monday, June 15th —Pre-conference Activities—

• 1–5pm: VCDX Workshop (Overland Park Convention Center)
• 4:30–6pm: Tesla Test Drives with Weekend Rental Giveaway (Fox and Hound parking lot)
• 6–8pm: Welcome Reception (Fox and Hound)

Tuesday, June 16th —Conference Highlights—Overland Park Convention Center—

• 7:30am: Registration & Breakfast
• 8:30am: VMware Update with Irish Spring
• 9am: Opening Keynote with Frank Denneman
• 10:15–noon: Labs & Breakout Sessions
• Noon: Lunch
• 1–4:15pm: Labs & Breakout Sessions
• 4:20pm: Virtualization Futures Panel Session
• 5pm: Closing Reception & Giveaways

Venues

• Fox and Hound
  10428 Metcalf Avenue
  Indian Creek Shopping Center
  Overland Park, KS 66212
• Overland Park Convention Center
  6000 College Boulevard
  Overland Park, KS 66211

Special Attendee Gift: Custom-crafted Loot Crates for the first 500 attendees to check in!

March Madness!!

As mentioned earlier, we’ve been working on something special for VMUG members!

Come join the Steering Committee and our sponsor—PernixData—and get away from the small screen as we host an afternoon of college hoops on the big screens of the 810 Zone in Leawood (119th & Roe) on Friday, March 21st from 11am to 5pm.

Registration for the event is open now http://www.vmug.com/e/in/eid=1281

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!