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Join Us For The VKernel (Dell) VIRTu Alley Online Symposium

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VIRTu Alley Online Symposium

vKernel (now part of DELL) is kicking of 2013  with the VIRTu Alley Online Symposium. It runs over two days and focuses on virtualization and cloud management. virtu-alley-c96ba660

When

VIRTu Alley takes place on Tuesday, January 15th from 10:00 – 13:00 EST and on Wednesday, January 16th from 10:00-13:30 EST. Don’t forget it’s EST. Meaning that you need to add 5 hours if you’re in GMT (Dublin) or 6 Hours if you’re in GMT +1 (Brussels)

Where

From the comfort of your office & home  Smile

Agenda

Go to the Virtu Alley web page and have a look at the agenda for both days. you’ll see they’ve mananged to line up some great speakers. Some of them I know personally. Aidan Finn and Damian Flynn (MVP and published authors) are both presenting on day 2 just like myself. Aidan on what’s new & improved in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Damian on Network virtualization. I will be speaking on Advanced Hyper-V Maintenance with Cluster Aware Updating.

It’s Free

The event itself if free but you do need to register for each day on which you want to attend sessions.

See you there!

Carsten Rachfahl Interviews Me On Windows Server 2012 Storage Improvements

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Carsten Rachfahl, a German Hyper-V Expert, friend and fellow MVP, interviewed me after the joint MVP effort at TEC 2012 in Barcelona. The subject was storage in Windows Server 2012. We found a great setting in the garden and got into quite a nice discussion on the subject.

It’s no surprise to anyone I guess that I’m very enthusiastic about what Microsoft is doing with storage on all levels in Windows Server 2012 and is trying to achieve for us, the customers from both a cost and performance and reliability perspective. It was a lot of fun to do and I see blinking lights in our eyes at many moments during this interview. Yes, working is important for many reasons, but when you can enjoy your work and have fun whilst doing it, life is pretty good Smile. So enjoy, we certainly did.

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Dell Storage Forum 2012 Paris – Fluid Forward Think Tank

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Thanks to some great people at Dell in Germany (yes, you Florian), Belgium and of course Alison Krause (@AlisonatDell), Maryna Frolova  (@MarineroF) and Stephanie Woodstrom I got invited to attend the “Fluid Forward Think Tank” at the Dell Storage Forum in Paris.

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We had a healthy variation in customers, partners, consultants and DELL employees discussing various aspects of IT related to storage. The task of herding the cats fell upon the shoulders of Simon Robinson (@simonrob451) who’s an Analyst and VP at 451 Research, a firm that deals with storage and information management. I for one think he did so brilliantly. This interactive discussion was streamed live and if you missed it you can click on this live stream link to look at our ramblings 🙂

I had to pitch some of my dreams of leveraging al the new mobility features as well as the high to continuous available that is being enabled with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V on inherently unreliable components what opportunities these present to us customers and storage vendors.

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It was a fun, educational discussion as the mix of backgrounds, industries, job functions was diverse enough to address all sides of the storage story, the good, the bad and the ugly. We gave them some food for taught I think. Well the folks at DELL can now take this back to Austin and reflect on it all. If need be, I’ll drop by some day to provide some feedback and remember @WarrenByle I ‘d like to try out that STI of his Winking smile  After an interview I ran of to a Compellent customer panel to learn something and provide some feedback on our first experiences.

Quest Technical Experts Conference 2012 Europe Podcast

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As the readers of my blog know I was in Barcelona this week to attend the Technical Experts Conference Europe 2012 organized by Quest (now a part of DELL).  Together with my fellow MVPs, friends and colleagues  Aidan Finn (@joe_elway), Carsten Rachfahl (@hypervserver) and Hans Vredevoort (@hvredevoort) we presented 8 sessions at the Virtualization Track and did a Hyper-V Experts panel to share what we have learned and help answer questions attendees on the new capabilities of Hyper-V in Windows Sever 2012. It was both fun and interesting to do. We learned some more from each other and also from the questions of an alert audience whom we enjoyed presenting to.

Mattias Sundling, a Technical evangelist at Quest and the owner of the Virtualization Track at TEC 2012 Europe did an audio podcast all 4 of us MVPs in the “Virtual Machine” expertise presenting in that track . You can find that podcast here on the vKernel/DELL web site http://www.vkernel.com/podreader/items/tec-europe-2012-mvps-with-mattias-sundling or on YouTube by clicking on the screenshot below. Enjoy.

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