Weekly virtualization news, as featured on the Community Roundtable podcast.
On Facebook, the vCloud team has shared a cool video showing how to configure firewall settings in vCloud Express, and also an interesting article in which our CEO Paul Maritz is hinting that an elite group of providers will soon offer VMware infrastructure for hybrid enterprise clouds. You can find it all at facebook.com/vmwarevcloud
Yesterday, a new public beta for the vCenter Converter 5.0 Standalone has gone live. Come check it out on VMTN community at communities.vmware.com – once there, click on “VMware Beta Programs” in the right-hand navigation. The new Converter beta is linked from there.
Early bird pricing for VMworld registration is ending on the 24th of June, so the time is running out if you want to save some cash: for yourself or for your company.
There are a bunch of cool events coming up over the next week or so.
The VMware Forum is making a stop in Houston today, and continues to Frankfurt, Brussels, Chicago, Rome, Edinburgh, and Milan.
We have a ton of webinars coming up soon, on topics ranging from Transition to vSphere ESXi, to Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Virtualization in Hospitals, and Downtime Prevention. There are more webinars listed than I have time to mention here, so go have a look at webcasts.vmware.com
A full-day regional VMUG conference is coming up in Vancouver on the 21st of June, so if you are in the area, put this on your calendars. A regional conference is more than your usual VMUG meeting. It’s frequently a full-day conference, with a full agenda and interesting speakers. John Troyer will be speaking there, so there’s your additional motivation to go.
Additionally, the following VMUGs are meeting over the next seven days: Switzerland, Hungary, Barcelona, San Antonio, Israel, and Omaha. You can find more details and registration links for all the VMUG meetings at myvmug.org by clicking on “Events.”
