Central Ohio VMUG

Don't forget to register for the March VMUG:

08:30 Registration and networking

09:00 NetApp
Speakers Matt Kletzly and Bob Christenson

Maximize Your IT Efficiency!
Discover why NetApp is simply the best choice for your mission-critical applications on Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware products.

 At this “NetApp 101″ event, you will learn how to:

- Reduce storage, power, cooling, and floor space needs by as much as 50%

 - Reduce the cost and complexity of managing and storing information.

 - Leverage your current infrastructure.

- Improve your bottom line and realize a rapid return on your investment.

10:15 Break

10:30  Customer Experience on NetApp

11:15 Wrap up

11:30 Close  

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/events

I have the New Train Signal video as a giveaway 

  Did you know that there was a CONUG?  What is that Central Ohio NetApp Users group.  I attended my first last night, good time and they have appetizers (in case you were interested in what they have that we don't.  If you are interested ask the NetApp guys about it next month when they are in to sponsor our meeting and check out http://communities.netapp.com/groups/cbus-coh-ug Also if there are other users groups meeting that talk about VMware let me know and we will get the word out for them as well. 

On another note there was an interesting release from vKernel, take a look http://www.vkernel.com/solutions/capacity-view and check out their new product.  Best of all its free (we know how that goes over). 

  No matter what your thought is on the “Cloud” you should at least be getting familiar with the terminology and technology behind it.  It has been gaining momentum and the technology seems to be catching up.  At least that is what I am reading.  Speaking of which if you don’t subscribe to “The Internet Protocol Journal” you might want to read the last couple of articles (Volume 12, Number 3 and Volume 12, Number 4 titled “Cloud Computing” by T. Sridhar.  You can read these at http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/about_cisco_the_internet_protocol_journal.html .  The two part article is a little lengthy but well worth the read.  It pretty much covers the who, what and why of the cloud.  If you haven’t thought about this from the business stand point, think about the hardware replacement cycle that most companies go through.  Think of all the time spent evaluating vendors, testing and evaluating and then implementing new technology.  This doesn’t mean you will necessarily be out of a job or all of your equipment will go away.  By changing over to operating expenses versa capital expenses the business can save a lot of money especially when you have to replace a lot of hardware on the floor every couple of years.  Move to the cloud and some of those worries go away and become some other datacenter manager’s issues.  This may or may not be a fit for your needs but that is why you should investigate it further.