As many of you know Matthew Brender, Jim Peluso and myself run the social media activities for the New England VMware User Group (NEVMUG). I have been talking with the President Chris Harney about getting more user involvement in the group. It was brought up that the NEVMUG would love to have end user presentations, not just …
Aug
23
Absolutely nothing but everything to do with #BRC2k11
Final blog post for the BRC2k11 With this being the last post from the contest, I would like to take the time to thank the judges who have provided some great incite, and really given me a lot to think about with how and what I choose to write. I really liked how HP the …
Aug
15
HP Converged Systems #BRC2k11
Blogger Reality Contest Week #2 overview This was the 2nd week on the Blogger Reality Contest and HP delivered a webinar on their HP Converged Systems, the presenters were Kristy Ward & Jeff Kenyon from HP ESSN Alliances Solutions group. The Difference The major difference with HP’s offerings is that it supports multiple hypervisors. I …
Aug
04
Trials & Tribulations of a Blogger #BRC2k11
Let it begin As many know we are attending various webinars being held by HP who is sponsoring this contest. I have to say it is definitely taking me outside the box in thinking and I LOVE IT! HP like many are getting into the IT As A Service (IAAS) Solution game, or the “make …
Aug
01
Winner winner Chicken Dinner!!
I mentioned Thomas Jones from Niketown588.com was holding a contest in an earlier post of mine. You can read it here. I also mentioned that I had thrown myself into the mix. I can announce that I have been selected in the contest!!There are some great people involved and I can’t wait to read all the …
Jul
13
Outside the Box contest
Thomas Jones from over at Niketown588.com is hosting a really sweet idea! In his latest blog post C’mon Down! You are the next contestant, Thomas talks about his idea of having 8 Bloggers compete in a reality online tv contest where they are not just typing up a blog but also having to do a vLog (Video …
Jun
15
EMC World 2011 Decomp – Closing Thoughts
There’s been pleanty of time. We have all read EMC World announcements, comments and reactions. I still have some reactions I think are best given back to the community. EMC World is unlike anything I have experienced. Said in a way my target audience would appreciate, technology conferences like ours are a terabyte-bandwidth LACP of …
Jun
07
What is VMUnderWorld?
That is a very good question, What is VMunderworld? VMunderworld was named by Rick Vanover during a Twitter conversation about starting our own Community Based Virtual Conference. I had originally thought of Virtual Underground Conference ( #VVC). Rick came back with VMunderworld. It’s alot less characters and honestly has a nice feel to it. Rick …
Jun
07
Did your VMworld 2011 Session get rejected?
Like many today I recieved the dredded your Session(s) were not selected email. AHHH!! Whocares! at least that’s how I’m taking it. There are plenty of Rockstars out there who didn’t get accepted, instead of giving up I challange you to still share that information with the community. Plenty of great advice has been giving …
May
18
EMC World Decomp pt 2 – Processing++
EMC World was a big week with too much to comment on in just one post. Here’s your next serving size of announcement decomposition by an EMCer. [RCA via Ionix] For real? is that possible? Cloud to Ground Root Cause Analysis? Well it sure seems a giant leap was announced now that Ionix Server Manager 3.0 …