#lonvmug

The first London VMUG for the year kicked off on Thursday 19th January 2017 at Tech UK.

This is my fourth year of attending the VMUGS and they keep getting better and better!

The schedule was:

The event started off with Byron Berrisford one of the sponsors from Rubrik talking about backup complexity and how Rubrik can span multiple clouds using a software fabric.

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AWS for VMware Admins – London VMUG Slide Deck

Last week, Chris Porter and I did a presentation at the London VMUG on AWS for VMware admins, a simple beginners guide with a few gotchas and tips we’ve picked up along our journeys to the public cloud.

The session itself was pretty well received, and we were lucky enough to have standing room only attendance (it was a very small room! :) ).

To open up proceedings and get a feel for our audience,…

New Blog Post: Juxtaposition Time! Join us at London VMUG to talk AWS! - January 19th 2017 #LonVMUG #VMUG #vExpert

Don’t panic, you’re not imagining things! You did indeed read that title right! If everything goes to plan, Chris Porter and I will be taking the January 2017 London VMUG to a whole new place, with a session on AWS!

Yes, that’s an AWS session at a VMUG! :o

Why?

For those people who have been living in a bunker on the isle of Arran for the past few years, AWS has been taking the IT industry by…

New Blog Post: Time to try something new - how about podcasting? #OpenTechCast #Podcasting #LonVMUG

This old blogging malarkey is getting a bit old hat isn’t it? Well, according to some (many?) people, podcasting is the new blogging (or so I hear on the grapevine, hanging around the water cooler and / or when grafting down at the old rumour mill)!

Well, I’m not sure I quite believe it, but either way I am a massive fan of podcasts and have steadily increased my consumption now to the point…

Preview – Open #Homelab Project at #LonVMUG – 14th April 2016

So this is just a very brief post to firstly say don’t forget it’s the London VMUG on 14th April 2016, at Tech UK (10 Saint Bride Street, EC4A). There are a load of really interesting sessions coming up, both vendor and community.

For example:

We have a keynote from Luca Dell’Ocawho provided one of the best non-vendorised vendor sessions I have ever seen at a VMUG (his session title this time…