It’s with great pleasure and pride to say that I will speaking at the UK Northeast England VMUG Meeting on the 6th June. It will be nice to supporting my local area (kind of) where I was born and bred (well, actually I’m Teessider, not a Tynesider, but I guess that’s better than being a Mackem right?). I will probably go up North the night before and kip with my parents, before heading up to Newcastle in the morning. Plan to check into a local hotel so I can stay on for the vBeers – before toddling back home the following morning.
Might pop on Owa Mam for a lunch time Parmo…
We kick off at 12.30pm at:
CastleGate
Simpson Room
Melbourne Street
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2JQ
Directions
Here’s the Agenda so far:
- Networking and Lunch
- Cisco Presentation: How Cisco Do IT
- Meet Richard Gore who will discuss how Cisco deployed VMware in their environment as the first step toward deploying private cloud, IaaS and PaaS in Cisco production data centers.Rich is a Cisco IT senior manager with 14 years’ experience in Cisco IT infrastructure architecture. He has 30 years of IT experience at Bell Labs, AT&T, as a private consultant and now with Cisco IT.
- User Presentation: Virtualising SQL instances
- Rod Hope from BSkyB (and Scottish VMUG) will give a presentation on his real world experiences virtualising SQL Server. Rod has over 13 years’ experience working with some of the world’s largest investment / investment services banks and has recently joined BSkyB’s Operations Engineering group in an Infrastructure Designer role.
- VMware Presentation: “DR and the Cloud – To, From, Of”
- Meet Mike Laverick (for it is I) who will discuss the challenges of doing DR to the cloud, from the cloud and of the cloud. Mike spent several years as an instructor and blogger, and written several books on topics such as vSphere 4, SRM and View, he joined VMware as an employee last year.
- Q&A and Wrap-Up: Raffle and Interactive Feedback: Bring Your Own Device. We’ve been using an App to ask the audience so far but if the Wi-Fi lets us down we’ll go old school and ask for show of hands on what you’d like for forthcoming topics.
- vBeers: Join us in a local pub, The Bridge Hotel, for a drink courtesy of our sponsors Nimble Storage
I’d really recommend Rod’s session – as I know him well from the Scottish VMUG…