NLVMUG Usercon 2018 Call for papers

For the last couple of years the NLVMUG has probably been the biggest thing after VMworld (Europe) if you live in The Netherlands or Belgium.
If you are thinking about presenting, why not give it a try at a VMUG conference, the NLVMUG to be more precise? For less experienced presenters there are Lightning Talks, present to a smaller audience with a time slot of 20 minutes. Or if you want to have a interactive architecture discussion, go for a whiteboard session.

Call for papers is open from October 26 2017 till January 26 2018. Submitting your paper can be done through this link.
If you're not ready to present by yourself, but want to be part of the NLVMUG Usercon on March 20 2018 then register through this link.

The location for this years edition is the same as last year, 1931 Event Center in Den Bosch
And as last year, you can expect next to the well known solution exchange, workshops and breakout sessions, also Lightning Talks, Whiteboard sessions and Group Discussions this year.

For those of you who are attending this NLVMUG Usercon, see you March 20th 2018!

NLVMUG Usercon 2017

The NLVMUG is probably the biggest thing after VMworld (Europe) if you live in The Netherlands or Belgium and it has been the biggest Usercon in the world for a couple of years in row now.

The location for this years edition is the same as last year, 1931 Event Center in Den Bosch
The way the sessions are scheduled has changed this year, all to be able to have more sessions during the event. You can expect next to the well known solution exchange, workshops and breakout sessions, also Lightning Talks and Group Discussions this year.

Registration is still possible through this link. And the full event agenda is here!


For those of you who are attending this NLVMUG Usercon, see you March 16th 2017!

21st VMUGBE+ Meeting

Over the last couple of years I have been attending VMUG meetings, they are all interesting although some have more interesting sessions than others. I always found the Belgium VMUG to have very good sessions.
The upcoming meeting promises also to be a good one, especially if you are into EVO:RAIL, VSAN and/or NSX and missed VMworld. Please check out the details below !
For those who are attending this VMUG meeting, see you November 21!

VMUG BE Agenda:

If you are a VMUG member you can register here for this free meeting. You can also find the location details on that page.

#FeedForward

During the last NLVMUG event in March, there was a keynote done by Mike Laverick. He put in words what most VMUG members where thinking, a VMUG event should be all about sharing VMware knowledge and above all sharing real life experiences with VMware products (and all other products related for that matter).
Of course we all enjoy hearing about the latest and greatest new products, but the community sessions is what it is all about.
After Mike shared what he thought that was causing that only a few VMUG members step up to the plate and present during a VMUG meeting. All the obvious reasons every one can think of, especially if the thought of presenting yourself did come to mind ! What would really help is to have someone review or mentor you before you are up on the stage doing the actual presentation, after a presentation there is always some feedback but in most case your presentation is a one-time deal.  So getting feedback after your presentation is not really useful. You need this feedback in advance before you do the actual presentation, #FeedForward sort to speak !
This is what #FeedForward is all about. There is much more value into getting Feedback in advance hence #FeedForward. This will make sure your presentations and presentation skills will improve and that you will enjoy presenting your own story.

After the NLVMUG keynote Mike "launched" a hashtag #FeedForward so it was easy for people to find each other by the use of Twitter.
Also global VMUG has created an new landing page in favor of #FeedForward

http://www.vmug.com/feedforward

On this page you can express the intention to either:

• Becoming a Mentor and reviewing presentations for VMUG events
• Sharing a presentation at a VMUG event
• Serving on a Committee to promote FeedForward

If you need help or want to help mentor your fellow VMUG’ers present your self, please sign up on the website.

NLVMUG conference 2014 Agenda

VMUG meetings are always interesting and I think that the NLVMUG  are getting better sessions since they joined the global VMUG.
Please check out the details in the link below !

If you are a VMUG member you can register here for this meeting. You can also find the location details on this page. The complete agenda for this meeting you can find here

For those who are attending this NLVMUG conference, see you March 6th !

20th Belgium VMUG meeting (agenda updated !)

VMUG meetings are always interessting and I think that the Belgium VMUG have very good sessions scheduled for their 20th VMUG meeting.
Please check out the details below ! For those who are attending this VMUG, see you December 5th !

If you are a VMUG member you can register here for this free meeting. You can also find the location details on that page.

Belgium VMUG 20th meeting agenda:

	ROOM 1		ROOM 2
	SPEAKER	SESSION	SPEAKER	SESSION
9:00	Erik Schils	Welcome
9:15	Chad Sakac	Software Defined Storage – State of the Art, and the Art of the Possible (EMC Gold Sponsor)
10:00	Lee Dilworth	Stretched Storage Clusters, Best Practices	Seb Hakiel	User Case: A 4K VDI
10:45	COFFEE
11:00	Dheeraj Pandey	“Bringing Google-like Infrastructure to the Enterprise “ (Nutanix Gold Sponsor)
11:45	Chris Van Den Abbeele	Turning the Tables on Cyber Attacks (Trend Micro Silver Sponsor)	Gilles Chekroun	Application Centric Infrastructure: Redefine the Power of IT (Cisco Silver Sponsor)
12:30	LUNCH
13:45	Joe Baguley	Thoughts from a CTO - Where's it all going?" (VMware Gold Sponsor)
14:30	Luc Dekens	Manage and Automate VMware View with PowerCLI	Viktor van den Berg and Arnim van Lieshout	vCac
15:15	COFFEE
15:30	Vaughn Stewart	Accelerate vSphere with Flash Storage Technologies	Bouke Groenescheij	Practical Vscsistats Result Analysis
16:15	Hans & Guests	Panel Discussion: "How Does the Future of Enterprise IT Impact Us?" (Pure Storage Silver Sponsor)	Kris Vandermeulen	Everything you always wanted to know about Microsoft licensing on VMware but were afraid to ask
16:45	Cormac Hogan	vSAN	Peter vandermeulen	User Case: Datacenters, Branch Office en Process Controle MIZ with VSA and How We Want to Integrate
17:15	vBEERS