Feb is a solid calendar of webcasts. As always, I try to reinforce, these are not for marketing, but for solid technical content, from solid technical folks. You come to a webcast to get something out of it – not to watch a commercial, and we know your time is valuable.
Same bat time, same bat channel – every Thursday starting at 8am PT / 11am ET.
- The first one (Feb 3rd) will be on how to download, install, and use the Celerra VSA. AFAIK, this remains the only virtual storage appliance which: a) is freely available to ANYONE; b) never times out; c) supports block and NAS storage; d) you can add as much storage as you want, e) is functionally equivalent (in every way) to a leading platform (Storage Magazine’s January 2011 WINNER in the Enterprise NAS Quality Award). The presenter is Simon Seagrave, aka @kiwi_si – a vSpecialist out of the UK, and author of the www.techhead.co.uk blog. He’s written a series of blog posts on using the Celerra VSA here.
- The second one (Feb 10th) will be on how to install and use the EMC vCenter plugins. These are all provided for free, and we’re now on our fourth gen – so have a lot of refinement (and still tons of coolness up our sleeve for the 5th gen which we’re working on now). The presenter is Rick Scherer – a vSpecialists out of SoCal, and author of the http://vmwaretips.com blog. He the man of a thousand accreditations, and one of the teams VCDXes – incredible talent. Ask him ANYTHING.
- The third one (Feb 17th) is on a great topic – VMware View 4.5, and how to get the most out of it, for the least. There’s a ton of work that’s been done between VMware and EMC to validate a series of reference architectures, at a series of different client profiles and different scales (hundreds-thousands). The discussion will show how to leverage everything VMware and EMC does to get hard-dollar cost per client to around the $500/client mark. The presenters are Brian Johnson and Josh Mello – two of the key members on the EMC’s proven solutions team.
- The fourth one (Feb 24th) is on securing the VCE Block and Virtual datacenter. This is a crazy hot topic, and there’s some VERY, VERY cool tech behind it. Put it this way – in Q4, a customer refused to buy a Vblock (or any converged infrastructure for that matter) until the CISO saw this stuff, at which point they signed a $8M PO. On the spot. The presenter is Mike Foley – again, a killer vSpecialist, one of the folks on the team that focuses on security. He’s been working on virtual appliances and PowerShell for security and vSphere purposes – if you want to ping him on stuff you’re curious about.
Click on the link below to register for one or all of them:
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