See you there!

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 

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.

Steve Wozniak, aka Steve Woz, the man behind the design of Apple’s first line of products and co-founder of Apple Computer, will speak at the VMUG Kansas City User Conference on December 11 at the Overland Park Convention Center. Wozniak, a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist helped shape the computing industry with his design of the Apple I and II, which eventually led to the popular Macintosh and spurred the microprocessor revolution. Wozniak, along with Steve Jobs, went on to found Apple in 1976.

Wozniak will open the Kansas City User Group Conference with an interactive discussion with the Kansas City VMUG volunteer leaders. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from Wozniak on his experience working with Apple and more recently, with Fusion-io.

“We are thrilled to bring such an influential industry icon to the VMUG community at the Kansas City user group conference. Our members strive every day to solve problems and create new opportunities through technology. Steve Wozniak epitomizes the contribution that the computer programmer can make by building something that changed the face of the industry and even the world,” says Victor Bohnert, Executive Director of VMUG.

The Kansas City VMUG User Conference will take place December 11 from 8:00am-5:00pm.  Registration is complimentary. Visit www.vmug.com/KCconference  to register and for more information  

As always, the event is free, and anyone in the virtualization community—or curious about it—is invited.

Attendance is free and open to all attendees and sponsors of the conference. Registration is requested, and is independent of your registration for the Conference.

Details:
Monday, 10-Dec-2012
5:30-8:00pm
810 Zone Town Center
4800 W 119th St
Overland Park, KS 66209 

Registration Link

Full Invitation

Apple co-Founder, Steve Wozniak

The leadership for the user group also has the pleasure of revealing that Fusion-io Chief Scientist, Steve Wozniak, will present the conference’s opening keynote address.

Wozniak—best known for co-founding Apple Computer Inc in 1976 with Steve Jobs and essentially creating the personal computer industry with his invention of the Apple II computer—will participate in a “Town Hall Chat” to open the conference.

The all-day conference is centered on virtualization technologies from VMware and its industry partners like platinum sponsors Symantec and Teradici. In addition to the opening keynote, sponsor exhibits and breakout sessions organized on multiple tracks are planned with both technical and business/executive attendees in mind.

While attendance to the conference is free—thanks to the generous contributions of partner sponsors—registration for the event with the global VMUG orgainzation is required.

Ben Clayton, presiding leader for the KC VMUG and VMUG Board of Directors member, said: “You can’t find a more vibrant, enthusiastic user community than the VMware User Group. I think we’ll impress Mr. Wozniak as much as he impresses us.”

We host our October meeting at Boulevard Brewing Company’s Muelbach Suite with the following agenda:

1:00 | New User Q&A with Ben
1:30 | Welcome & Announcements
2:00 | Dell: Enterprise Solutions
3:00 | vSphere 5.1: Intro & New Features 
3:30 | Closing & Giveaways

The registration page is available at the vmug.com site.

Agenda:

1:00 | New User Q&A with Ben
1:30 | Welcome & Announcements
2:00 | CoSentry: Tackling Compliance Regulations in the Cloud
3:00 | VMworld Primer — What to Expect
3:30 | Closing & Giveaways

As usual, we’re meeing at the Boulevard Brewing Company’s Muelbach Suite.

Thanks ahead of time to CoSentry for sponsoring this meeting!

As a reminder, the next meeting will be the first Thursday of August (2-Aug-2012) instead of the third in order to give us a little more separation from VMworld, which kicks off at the end of the month.

Given some of the date changes we’ve had this year, the website now sports a quick calendar, which can be viewed/reviewed any time you’re needing a reminder of upcoming events.