VMware New England Users Group a Big SUCCESS!

This was my first time attending a VMware New England Users Group event.  It was up in Maine July 21st.  My presentation title was "What DBAs need to know about Virtualization".  It was standing room only.  The overall event included:

• All day presentations from key knowledge experts around virtualization.
• Over 1200 attendees.
• Presentations were in classrooms so there was easy access to presenters.
• Large and very well attended vendor area.  Traffic in vendor area was busy all day.
• An incredible Lobster Bake and party after the event.  Food was incredible barbequed steak,  chicken and all the lobster you could eat.  There was mounds of gigantic lobsters.  Open bar, live band and big cigar trailer with the best stogies you can find.  

Overall it was an incredible technical event around virtualization, great attendance and enthusiasm and wrapped up with an incredible party. Definitely one of the key conference events to attend.  Congratulations to the New England VMUG for putting on an incredible event.

IOUG Virtualization Online Education Series

Consolidation, Virtualization, the Cloud and Virtual Machines (VMs) are sone of the hottest topics around database infrastructures today.

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) will have three Virtualization Online Education presentations leading up to Oracle Open World.  Then during Oracle Open World the IOUG will be launching a new Virtualization Special Interest Group (SIG).  Due to the popularity and  growth of virtualization this new SIG is being looked at with tremendous enthusiasm.  The upcoming virtualization presentations are:

July 27: 360 Degrees:  Everything to know about Virtualization for Oracle DBAs
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT

Mike Ault and Tariq Farooq, BrainSurface 

August 24: Virtualizing Oracle Database Servers o VMware 

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT

George Trujillo, VMware and Bert Scalzo, PhD

September 21: Virtualized Oracle 11g/R2 RAC Database on Oracle VM: Methods/Tips 

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT

Kai Yu, Oracle Solutions Engineering Lab, Dell Inc.