Category Archives: General

Welcome Coraid to the sponsors of the VMDownUnderground party

I am very pleased to announce that Coraid have joined our illustrious sponsor list.  Friends of the podcast will recall that I have spoken to ChipBrodhum from Coraid a couple of times and find their etherdrive storage technology very interesting. … Continue reading

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vForum Community party selling out

As I write this there are only five places left for the VMDownUnderground party on Tuesday night next week.  To make sure nobody misses out I’ve put up additional tickets for vStandby, I hope to be able to get these … Continue reading

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EPISODE43 – APAC Virtualization Podcast – vForum and beyond

Join us for a look at what to expect from vForum 2011 Sydney as well as forward to the Australian VMUG User Summits in December.  The usual crew will be joined by VMUG leaders along with the sponsors of the … Continue reading

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VMDownUnderground is Go, NetApp joins the sponsors

I’m delighted to announce that NetApp has agreed to sponsor the party before vForum Sydney, joining Veeam in supporting the virtualisation community. NetApp are well known as a vendor of multi-protocol storage solutions and long time champion of NFS as … Continue reading

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View Composer and the long time between recomposes

If you’ve worked with VMware View you will know that moving hundreds of desktops into your datacentre has a large storage requirement.  If you haven’t seen it yet you need to look at View Composer (also this more official pdf … Continue reading

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EPISODE42 – APAC Virtualization Roundtable – Desktop

Join us for this week’s podcast, it should be a lively discussion with a few guests and the regulars. Visit http://apacvirtual.com for the details.

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Veeam sponsors the community party at vForum Sydney

I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor for the party, Veeam have again shown that they care for the people who install and operate their products. I doubt Veeam needs any introduction to those who’ve been in the Virtualisation industry … Continue reading

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Community Party before vForum Sydney 2011

Inspired by the VMUnderground party and the vBeers movement I am organising a community party the evening before vForum Sydney. The aim of the event is to allow people who are involved in virtualisation to meet up with like minded … Continue reading

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APAC Virtualisation Podcast, VMworld 2011 review

Join me along with Rodney Haywood and Simon Sharwood to discuss VMworld and the announcements that were made. All of the details are on the podcast blog at it’s spiffy new .com domain of http://apacvirtual.com  

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VMworld, see me in person (if you dare)

While I was hanging out at VMworld I did a couple of group discussions. One was organised by  Cody Bunch of Professional VMware where I was joined on the panel by Greg Shulz, Gina Rosenthal and Jay Cuthrell to talk … Continue reading

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