North East VMUG - Thursday 6th February 2020

The first North East VMUG of 2020 is ready for registration and boy is it going to be a good one. The event will take place on Thursday 6th February at the Royal Station Hotel which is situated right next to Newcastle Central Station. Once again, the team have put on a spectacular agenda with some great VMware speakers as well as community sessions. Special thanks to all the sponsors who fund these events and without them these events would not happen so during the breaks go spend some time with them and see what they have to offer:

Datrium
TruStack
10Zig
Zerto
Runecast

The current agenda is as follows:

VMware Keynote - Frank Denneman (Blog | Twitter) - Chief Technologist at VMware
Title - VMware’s Hybrid Cloud Vision and Strategy

In this session, Frank will discuss VMware’s 3-year Hybrid Cloud Vision and Strategy. He’ll discuss industry trends driving our thinking and then lay out our vision for how we can evolve our core platform to support where customers and the industry is going. re provides a lot of value, especially in large-scale Kubernetes deployments.

VMware Keynote - Duncan Epping (Blog | Twitter) - Chief Technologist at VMware 
Title - How HCI is revolutionizing the datacenter today and tomorrow! 

A year has passed and a lot has changed since then. Not just for you, but also for HCI and vSAN in particular. In this session, Duncan will discuss where we are coming from, but more importantly where we are going. Be warned, this session will include forward-looking statements and demos of to be released features.

Community Session - Kyle Jenner (Blog | Twitter) - AWS Architect at Rackspace
Title - VI admin to Cloud Architect

A little northerners journey to the cloud - tips and tricks learned along the way and thoughts on the future.

Community Session - Craig Dalrymple (Blog | Twitter) - Senior Systems Engineer at Brightsolid
Title - ...And now for something completely different

A frank and open presentation about mental health in IT, it is real and it really can happen to anyone ...did I mention there will be Irn Bru?

Community Session - Michael Sweeney (Twitter) - Virtualistion Specialist at DXC.Technology
Title - Modern Day Infrastructure Management using vRealize Ops

Overview and lessons learnt from a vROps deployment and what advantages this brought to make more informed business decisions.

VMware Session - Andy Watson (Twitter) - Systems Engineer at VMware
Title - Virtual Cloud Networking

Andy Watson, a Solution Engineer in VMware’s Network and Security Business Unit, gives an update on the Virtual Cloud Network. In the last 3 years, VMware has gone from a single networking product to providing complete consistent networking and security from the Datacentre to the Edge and the Cloud.

This is a great event to network with peers and experts from VMware as well as have a few sneaky beers since its no longer dry January :)

See you there

Michael

North East VMUG - Thursday 26th September

The next North East VMUG event has officially been announced and registration is open. The event will take place on Thursday 26th September at the Royal Station Hotel. It's conveniently located right next to Newcastle Central station and directions can be found here. The guys have pulled out all the stops and arranged a great selection of sponsor and community sessions. Just check out the list of rockstars who will be at the event:

Keynote Sessions

Matt Steiner (Blog | Twitter) - Cloud Management Evangelist/Strategist, VMware
Session - Are you the Platform Engineer of the Future who will #ManageAllTheThings?

As we enter the Multi-Cloud era, the traditional roles in IT are changing. In this talk, we look at how the landscape is changing, and at the Cloud Management technology that is supporting this change. We will talk APIs, Infrastructure as Code, Platforms as Code, Everything as a Service, how you truly can #ManageAllTheThings, and become the Platform Engineer of the Future.

Lee Dilworth (Twitter) - Chief Technologist Storage & Availability, VMware
Session - To be confirmed


Community Sessions

Ricky El-Qasem (Blog | Twitter)
Session - Automation: you're the first, the last, my everything)

A talk about how everything in your IT could and should be automated. Discussing how different facets of automation can help you nail down everything that can be automated, some next gen automation with AI and showing off a new tool in prototype he has been working on to help automate cloud templates.

Gareth Lewis (Blog | Twitter)
Session - VMware NSX Data Centre for vSphere (NSX-V): Micro-Segmentation from the Field

A real-world look at the micro-segmentation of applications with the aid of VMware NSX-V and the NSX Application Rule Manager. By visualising application dependencies, endpoints and services, we can implement a zero-trust environment and prevent lateral network exploits thanks to the Application Rule Manager and NSX Distributed Firewall.

Sam McGeown (Blog | Twitter)
Session - Getting Started with Kubernetes and the NSX-T container network plugin

A hands-on demonstration configuring the NSX-T container plugin with Kubernetes. Minimal slides and maximum command line.

These event would not be possible if it wasn't for the sponsors so a big shout out to them all:

Gold Sponsors

Dell Technologies
Arcserve
HTG

Silver Sponsors

ExaGrid
Exponential-e

Remember to secure a pass out from the other half because the event is only half the fun. vBeers will be held at The Town Wall straight after the event and continue into the night. Be sure to be first in line for the legendary scotch eggs before they disappear.

North East VMUG - Thursday 22nd February

The first North East VMUG of 2018 has officially been announced and will take place on Thursday

22nd February.  The venue is confirmed as:

Royal Station Hotel

Neville Street

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 5DH 

Map

The leadership team have done a great job and have confirmed some awesome speakers which include Duncan Epping (Blog | Twitter), Frank Denneman (Blog | Twitter), Mark Brookfield (Blog | Twitter), Tim Hynes (Twitter)

There are also some great sponsors lined up which include:

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Don't forget to register here

North East VMUG - Thursday 23rd March

It's with great pleasure that I announce the first North East VMware User Group event of 2017 and boy is it a big one.  The event will be help on Thursday 23rd March at the Royal Station Hotel from 11:30 to 18:00 in Newcastle.  As always there will be a light lunch, tea & coffee and vBeers in the evening.  The full address and map can be found below:

Royal Station Hotel
Neville St
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 5DH
Map

Registration is now open

We have some excellent speakers and sponsor and the event is gearing up to be great start to 2017 for the North East VMUG.

Lee Dilworth (twitter)
VMware EMEA Practice Lead – Storage & Availability

“Software Defined Storage Marches On – To say things are busy in the software defined storage side of VMware would be an understatement but the result of all of this activity is thousands of customers enjoying storage flexibility, performance and ease of use that were words once not often used in this area of IT. Join us to learn more and hear how you too can benefit and what other things are just around the corner.”

Atif Qadeer (blog | twitter)
VMware Senior Systems Engineer

“VMware Cloud on AWS; offering you the best of both worlds. Everything you need to know about VMware’s virtualization and management software to seamlessly deploy and manage VMware workloads across all of their on-premises and AWS environments.”

Mark Brookfield (blog | twitter)
VMware PSO Consultant

“Automate all the things! SRM, vRA and Puppet – a hands-on demo”

As always, it wouldn't be possible to put on these events without our sponsors:

Gold Sponsors

Sam Routledge (twitter)
Softcat CTO

“Softcat and our NSX journey -Join us as we share our real-world experience of deploying NSX – the use cases, the pitfalls and the results. We’ll also talk about our success with a ‘zero-trust’ security architecture founded upon NSX micro-segmentation”

Ezat Dayeh (twitter)
Cohesity Senior Systems Engineer

“Beyond backup – making your VMware protection data work for you – Cohesity will give a demonstration of their hyper-converged secondary storage solution that will let you protect, develop and analyse your VM data to improve SLAs and business agility while reducing costs.”

James Smith (twitter)
Morpheus Senior Systems Engineer

“Morpheus Data is a full feature cloud management platform that allows you do deploy into any public or private cloud infrastructure at either VM or Container level.  During the session we will show provisioning of a simple two tier app stack and then deployment of an application onto that stack. We will then look at how we can monitor and control that app through its life cycle.”

Silver Sponsor

We have some great prizes to give away so it's always worth staying to the end as you never know what you might win (actually you do know as all prizes are normally on the table as you register)

Looking forward to catching up with everyone.

North East VMUG - Thursday 3rd November

The next North East VMware User Group is locked and loaded.

Date:
03 November 2016

Time:
11:30 - 18:00

Location:
Victoria Room
Royal Station Hotel
Neville Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 5DH

Some of the highlights of the event are:

Atif Qadeer (VMare) – vROPS
Community Session: Ian Sanderson - Veeam Troubleshooting
Kyle Jenner (NE-VMUG) – Feedback from VMWorld Barcelona
Steve Wood (VMWare) - vSphere 6.5 What’s New
Community Session: Kevin Johnson –  Open Tech Cast
Hear from our Gold Sponsors: Simplivity and Rubrik

The full agenda and registration for the event can be found here

Big thanks to our gold sponsors Simplivity and Rubrik

and our silver sponsors iGel

See you all at the event.

North East VMUG - Thursday 19th May

The next North East VMUG is locked and loaded.

Location:
The Auditorium - Bunker Coffee & Kitchen, 9-11 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne & Wear, NE1 6UF

Agenda:
11:30 - Registration, networking and refreshments
12:00 - Introduction
12:15 - EUC Update: Ben Ward, VMware
13:00 - Networking and refreshments
13:15 - Community Session: "Automating the Data Center", Tim Hynes, ANS
14:00 - Networking and refreshments
14:15 - Gold Sponsor Presentation: PernixData, Eliminate the Guesswork with “Analytics Driven Storage”
15:00 - Networking and refreshments
15:15 - Introduction to the NSX Distributed Firewall: Michael Armstrong, VMware
16:00 - Networking and refreshment
16:15 - Gold Sponsor Presentation: Latest updates from Nimble Storage including  "Unified flash fabric" and "InfoSight Predictive Analytics", Rich Fenton
17:00 - Community Session: "Career Disruption 101 - Reinvent yourself", Amit Panchal, EMC
17:45 - Close: Q&A and prize giveaway (a list of prizes will be published prior to the event)
18:00 - vBeers (Centurion bar, next to Central Station)

Big thanks go out to our sponsors as without them the guys would not be able to put on these events:

North East VMUG - Thursday 25th February

It's that time again, the next North East VMware User Group is happening on Thursday 25th February and boy do we have a great line up of speakers for you.  Joe Baguley (twitter) Chief Technical Officer for EMEA will be delivering a keynote session and Duncan Epping (blog | twitter) will be talking about Virtual SAN.  We have two community sessions at the event, one from Matthew Bunce (blog | twitter) and Marco Van Baggum (blog | twitter) on NSX in the real world and another from Kyle Jenner (blog | twitter) on the importance of a VDI assessment for an accurate design and ultimately a successful project.  We have some great prizes to give away but you have to be there during the draw to win and then onto vBeers afterwards.

You can register here and the event will take place at Campus North:

Campus North
Auditorium
Sunco House
5 Carliol Square
Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
NE1 6UF

Click here for directions

The agenda is as follows:

• 11:30 - Registration and Networking – Light lunch, Teas and Coffees will be provided
• 12:00 - NEVMUG Introduction
• 12:15 - Keynote – Joe Bagluey (VMWare VP / CTO, EMEA)
• 13:15 - Networking – time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways.  Grab yourselves a drink and have a chat!
• 13:40 - Duncan Epping (VMWare Chief Technologist – Storage and Availability) - Virtual SAN, the story up to 6.2
• 14:30 - Networking – time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways. Don't just sit there – get up and mingle!
• 14:45 - Community Session: Matthew Bunce (Xtravirt) / Marco Van Baggum (ITQ) – NSX in the real world
• 15:30 - Networking – time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways. Come on you know you want to!
• 15:45 - Gold Sponsor Presentation: Tegile – Consolidate all your workloads onto a single flash array that's fast, flexible and economical.
• 16:30 - Networking – time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways. Grab yourselves a beer and have a natter!
• 16:45 - Community Session: Kyle Jenner (SITS Group) – The importance of a VDI assessment for an accurate design and ultimately a successful project
• 17:30 - NEVMUG Close – Q&A and prize giveaway – all these prizes have to go, but you have to be here to win them!

Big thanks go to our sponsors of the day as without you the leadership team would not be able to put these events on:

Gold - Tegile
Silver - 10Zig

                    

North East VMUG - Thursday 26th November

Registrations for the next North East VMUG are open and you can register via the link below:

Register Now

The event is taking place at Campus North:

Campus North
Auditorium
Sunco House
5 Carliol Square
Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
NE1 6UF
Click here for directions

Agenda is as follows:

12:00 - Registration and Networking
12:30 - Introduction – North East VMware User Group Committee.
12:45 - Zerto Gold Sponsor Presentation: People Depend on Your Data; Your Data Depends on Zerto. Ensure IT availability: protect, migrate & recover workloads on any infrastructure or cloud.
13:30 - Lunch and Break out Session – Breakout session time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways for a very good chance of winning some great gadgets.
14:00 - VMware Presentation – Lee Dilworth, @leedilworth, Principle Systems Engineer VMware Site Recovery Manager across Metro stretched clusters.
14:45 - Community Presentation – Nick Evans, Senior Infrastructure Engineer. Nick runs a demo of his Zerto environment and discusses use of the product in a real world disaster recovery scenario. This is a no sales honest account of actual use of the Zerto solution by a real North East company. Attend this session to learn from Nick’s experience.
15:15 - Breakout session – Breakout session time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaways
15:30 - Nimble Gold Sponsor Presentation – Consolidate hybrid and all flash workloads in one platform for businesses of any size. At this presentation you will learn how Nimble makes this happen.
16:15 - VMware Presentation – Michael Armstrong, @m80arm, North East VMware System Engineer. In this session we will introduce you to Network Virtualization and VMware's NSX which provides Layer 2 to 7 network services.
17:00 - Breakout session – Breakout session time to interact with our sponsors and enter vendor giveaway.
17:15 - Community Presentation – Andy Ferguson, NHS design engineer. The benefits and realisation of automation from real world implementations. Andy will discuss how your business can reap the unlimited benefits of automation across multiple technologies using Powershell.
18:15 - Questions and Answers
18:45 - Closing statement and giveaways – All these prizes have to go
19:00 - vBeers and networking at location

Big thanks to our sponsors as without them these events wouldn't happen:

We're Slacking at the North East VMware User Group

Duncan (Twitter) and Alan (Twitter) who are both VMUG Leaders for the North East VMware User Group have setup a Slack account / channel / forum or whatever the correct term is for the North East VMware User Group.  Slack allows people to chat and collaborate in real time and we though it would be a good idea to get the North East VMUG community involved and use it for general chat, announcements and ideas for the future events.  So, if you want to get involved create an account and join us via the URL below:

https://nevmug.slack.com

All the VMUG leaders participate so the more members we get the better community we will have. So, what are you waiting for, sign up and join us.  Just remember to turn off notifications if you install the mobile app, it can get quite busy.

North East VMUG MIni Meet

The North East VMUG Leaders are having a catch up on Friday 25th September and would like to extend the invite out to the community as per below:

What’s happening?
We've been busy behind the scenes planning the next VMUG and decided to have a mini VMUG meeting in September. As this is a community group, we'd like to extend the planning to all our members so you have a part in shaping the next event.

When's it happening?
25th September 2015
4:30PM - 5:30PM (leaders meet)
5:30 PM - 6:30PM (All community members)

All VMUG members welcome.

Why are we meeting?

• Test out an awesome new location
• Discuss content our community would like to see at the next meeting
• Requests for community presentation
• Provide forum to support for community speakers
• Launch an exciting new channel for community collaboration
• Requests for VMUG leader volunteers
• Social catch up for group members
• Make people aware of Campus North and the excellent facilities available
• See who will be at VMworld to share contact details

You can register for the event and find all location details here or feel free to turn up.  I'm sure knowing the leaders that there may be a few selected drinks on offer if that's enough to tempt you.

See you there

North East VMUG - Thursday 21st May

The next North East VMUG will be held on Thursday 21st May at the Centre for Life in Newcastle:

International Centre for Life 

Marlborough Suite - Conference and Banqueting 

Times Square

Newcastle

NE1 4EP

You can register for the event here

The agenda is currently as follows:

9:30      Event Registration
10:00    Welcome & Agenda – VMUG Leadership
10:15    VMware Update – Michael Armstrong (Blog | Twitter)
11:00    vCloud Air DR (DRaaS) – Dave Hill (Blog | Twitter)
12:00    Lunch
12:30    Tegile – Gold Sponsor Presentation
13:30    Break
13:45    Data Centre Migration Project – Alan Burns
14:45    Break
15:00    Reflections on Convergence  – David Thomas
15:45    Break
16:00    EVO:RAIL – Mike Laverick (Blog | Twitter)
16:45    Closing statement and raffle
17:00    Onwards to vBeers

Big thanks to our Gold sponsor Tegile and Silver sponsor 10Zig

The North East VMware User Group Wants you!!!!

Do you:

• Work or are looking to work with VMware technology in the future?
• Want to improve your public speaking skills?
• Give back to the North East VMware community?
• Want free beer?

The North East VMware User Group are looking for community speakers to present at events in the North East.  Slots are normally 45 minutes long including any Q&A that the topic may generate.  The topic can be based on anything relevant to VMware and / or your experiences designing, installing, using or supporting the software stack.

These are great events to network with like minded people in the North East who work with VMware and virtualisation technology in general and a great platform to improve on your public speaking skills in a comfortable and familiar environment.  If you have an idea and would like to put your name forward then please let me know and I will put you in touch with the leaders.  There is also a mentoring program called FeedForward whereby seasoned public speakers are willing to give up their time to help you with your presentation content and give advice and tips with the delivery of the content.  Mike Laverick (Blog | Twitter) has a post regarding this.  We may be able to offer some bribes prizes for all community presenters who present at an event.

VMUG Presentations

Just a quick post to say that I will be presenting at the following VMUG's this month:

Thursday 13th @North East VMUG

At the North East VMUG I'll be giving a presentation on Home Labs and what I currently use at home.
You can register for the VMUG here

Thursday 20th @ Scottish VMUG

At the Scottish VMUG in Glasgow I'll be giving a deep dive in whats new in vSphere 5.5 with demo's around the new Web Client, 62TB VMDK's, vSphere Flash Read Cache, Traffic Filtering and Packet capturing.

You can register for the VMUG here

North East VMUG - 13/03/2014

The next UK North East VMUG has been finalised and will be on Thursday 13th March from 12:00 and take place at:

CastleGate
Simpson Room
Melbourne Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 2JQ
Map

Once the full agenda with times has been confirmed I will update this page but here are some highlights of what we have planned:

• Hot Topic Round Table: Join Us for a Roundtable Discussion on the Community’s Hottest Topics
• Nimble Presentation: Nimble Customer
• VMware Presentation: vSphere 5.5 – What’s New - Hani El-Qasem (Blog | Twitter)
• Community Presentation: “Home Labs” with Added Demo - Michael Armstrong (Blog | Twitter)
• VMware Presentation: vSAN - Lee Dilworth (Twitter)
• Networking, Food & Drinks, and Raffle
• vBeers at Bridge Hotel – Sponsored by 10Zig

Were trying something new this event by putting on a round table slot from 11:00 to 12:00 for anyone who wants to come along and talk about what there currently up to or any challenges they are currently facing and would like input from others.  Hopefully if we get a few people involved we might look to put similar sessions on at future events.  We also have a great selection of presenters which include the awesome Lee Dilworth and Hani El-Qasem.  I'll also be doing a community presentation on Home Labs whereby I'll hopefully show you a live demo of exactly what I run at home.

Sign up and Register Here

Big thanks go out to our Sponsors for the day, Nimble and 10Zig.  Without their help we wouldn't be able to put on these free events.

North East VMUG - 03/10/2013

The next UK North East VMUG has been finalised and will be on Thursday 3rd October from 12:00 and take place at:

CastleGate
Simpson Room
Melbourne Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 2JQ

Direction Here

Once the full agenda with times has been confirmed I will update this page but here are some highlights of what we have planned:

• Joe Baguley, VMware – Keynote
• David Owen - Training & Certification
• Andrew Wood, Atlantis Computing – Delivering on the VDI Reality
• Dan Watson, VMware – NSX
• vBeers: We will adjourn at 5pm and reconvene at The Bridge Hotel for vBeers and a buffet courtesy of SITS Group

This time we have a diverse event including a keynote from Joe Baguely, VMware CTO for EMEA, an overview of VMware training and certification from one of our members along with some real world advice and a session on the new network virtualization technology NSX, which looks set to become key over the next couple of years. Finally, Atlantis are sponsoring our venue and will give a session on the benefits of their solutions, particularly in optimising IO and storage traffic for VDI.

Sign up and Register here

Big thanks go out to our Sponsors for the day, Atlantis Computing and SITS Group.  Without their help we wouldn't be able to put on these free events.

North East VMUG–6/6/2013

Well it’s time again for the next North East VMUG.  The event will take place on Thursday 6th June from 12:30 onwards and will take place at:

CastleGate
Simpson Room
Melbourne Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 2JQ

Direction Here

The full agent will be posted up shortly but here are some highlights:

• 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 who will discuss the challenges of doing DR to the cloud, from the cloud and of the cloud.
  Mike is a real VMware A lister, having 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

Click here to register for the event

Big thanks to our sponsors Cisco and Nimble Storage

          

North East VMUG – 07/02/2013

The next North East England VMUG will be held on Thursday 7th February from 12:30 onwards at:

Simpson Room, The CastleGate
Melbourne Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 2JQ

Direction here

The agenda is as follows:

12:30 - Networking and Lunch
13:15 - VMUG Introduction
13:30 - Deep Dive and Demonstrations of VMware End User Computing Technologies Including Horizon, Octopus, HTML Remoting and Mirage - Peter Von Oven, VMware’s Lead UK EUC Specialist
14:45 - Refreshment and Networking Break
15:00 - Sponsor Presentation – Fusion-iO
15:45 - Refreshment and Networking Break
16:00 - Community Presentation – Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to 5.1, Real World Experiences from the Field Graham French
16:45 - Raffle, Socrative, Other News
17:00 - Onwards – vBeers Sponsored by 10-Zig (Bridge Hotel)

Click here to register for the event

Big thanks to our sponsors Fusion-IO and 10Zig

         

North East VMUG #2

The next VMUG in the North East is taking place on Thursday 1st November from 12:30 – 17:00.  Matt Steiner from VMware has great little video about it:

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13669270/north-east-vmug-2-november-1st-2012

The agenda is based around Backup, Recovery and Storage and the location is:

The CastleGate
Melbourne Street
Newcastle
Tyne and Wear
NE1 2JQ

The full agenda is as follows:

12:30 - Registration and Networking Lunch. Enjoy some sandwiches and refreshments; meet today's sponsors Veeam and NetApp, your local VMware team and network with the VMUG committee and other members.
13:20 - Introduction from VMUG committee.
13:30 - VMware Presentation – A technical update from VMware's lead Business Continuity/DR consultant, Lee Dilworth who will provide a deep dive on vSphere Replication (now standard in vSphere), SRM 5.1 and vSphere Data Protection.
14:30 - Networking Break – Meet the sponsors and ask questions at the VMware genius bar.
14:45 - NetApp Presentation – A talk and demo around storage considerations for backup and DR.
15:15 - Veeam Presentation – A talk and demo around Veeam backup and recovery solutions.
15:45 - Networking Break – Meet the sponsors and ask questions at the VMware genius bar.
16:15 - vNews – An update with the latest news from Barcelona VMworld.
16:50 - Wrap up: An interactive Q & A session with the VMUG committee (bring your smartphone!) and raffle draw.
17:00 - Close and vBeers (Bridge Hotel)

If you need anymore information then feel free to reach out.

North East VM User Group

The next North East VMware User Group has been announced.  It’s at Ramside Hall Hotel near Durham on Tuesday 27th March from 16:00 to 17:30.  The agenda is as follows:

• Official VMUG - An overview by Matthew Steiner of VMware
• Site Recovery Manager and VDR
• Group discussion
• Formation of a steering group

To register and find out more info see http://www.vmwarenortheast.org.uk/