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It was great seeing so many VMware User Group (VMUG) members at this week’s Virtualization Forum in Washington, DC.  There are several more Virtualization Forum‘s scheduled for North America, Europe, and Asia – these events are a great chance to see live demo’s, connect with experts, and catch a peek of some exciting technologies in the virtualization space.  I hope to see everyone I met at the VMware booth at the next Washington, DC VMUG.

Our next event will be on Thursday, April 29th at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, VA where we will be discussing best practices when Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications.

Here is the agenda for the meeting:

11:30 a.m.    Registration
11:50 a.m.    Opening Remarks
12:00 p.m.    Riverbed Presentation by Jim Borda
12:45 p.m.    Lunch
01:30 p.m.    What’s New by VMUG Leader Jason Langone
01:45 p.m.    Double-Take Presentation: “The Secret to Disaster Recovery for Any Application, Anywhere” by James Senecal
02:30 p.m.    Beverage Break
02:45 p.m.    Virtualization of Tier 1 Apps
03:30 p.m.    Wrap-up

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology.  Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

The official registration form can be found here: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/WashingtonDC_4-29-10.html.

Please join us for the upcoming Washington DC VMware^® User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 10th, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology.

Agenda
10:30 a.m. Check-In
10:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
11:00 a.m. Compellent Presentation
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. VMware ThinApp Presentation by Jason Langone
01:30 p.m. Beverage Break
01:45 p.m. Veeam Presentation
02:30 p.m. Wrap-up session

Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

Location:
Westin City Center
National Ballroom A
1400 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Map Here

Sponsored by:

As I am one of the leaders of the Washington, DC VMware User Group, please feel free to reach out to me with questions, comments, volunteering to present at an upcoming meeting, or just to introduce yourself.

You can stay in touch with the group by visiting http://dcvmug.com (redirect to http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/forums/us_northeast/dc) or our LinkedIn Group.

Today marks the one year anniversary of my first post on VMtoday.com, and an exciting year it has been in many ways.  First, some stats:

• VMtoday.com has been visited more than 10,000 times in the past year.  While the number of site visits is far below some of my fellow virtualization bloggers, it is still exciting for me to see that I am making an impact on the community (despite my meager post count).  There are some of you who read my posts through Planet V12n and RSS, which is cool by me.
• Yesterday was the busiest day for the site.  No coincidence that it comes after adding some new content….  I’ll try to be more faithful in publishing regular, relevant content!
• My most popular post to date has been: IBM DS3300 iSCSI Write Performance Solved. I’m glad this has been useful for so many, but I hope that you don’t just apply the workarounds I wrote about. I would rather have you build a “bet the business” iSCSI environment by adding that second controller to your MD3000i or DS3300.
• My least popular post to date has been: VMworld Here I Come. I will try not to be so boring in the future.
• The first link back to my site was from Scott Lowe’s blog.  Thanks for the link, Scott.  Scott wrote a darn fine book: Mastering VMware vSphere 4.  Buy it.
• The site theme, like my Twitter page, is very blue.  I am working on a new theme in all of the spare time that a busy professional and father of two boys can muster.

Along with this site, I have made a concerted effort engage the virtualization community in several ways:

• Twitter keeps me plugged in to the latest news and discussions, and has been a source of help to me (and I would like to think that I have helped some of you as well).  Follow me at http://twitter.com/joshuatownsend.
• I have stepped up into a leadership role with the Washington DC VMware User Group (VMUG).  It has been awesome to meet with and learn from my local colleagues.  I will continue to work with the DC VMUG leadership team to deliver exciting and relevant content and activities (and also some more seating space).  I welcome your feedback and ideas for ways to improve the VMUG.
• VMworld 2009 was a great way to meet many of you while learning some of the hottest new technology on the planet.  My wife came along and enjoyed spending time with some of the other vSpouses (or vWidows?).
• I took a new job early in the year with a VMware Partner in the DC area.  This new job has been both challenging and rewarding, affording me opportunities to more effectively engage customers and spend more time working on virtualization-specific solutions.

I look forward to contributing to the virtualization community as a blogger, VMUG leader, and practitioner.  If you want to learn a bit more about me, check out the About page on this site.  I welcome your feedback and appreciate your reading my work!

- Josh