VMware News, Views, and How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – it’s awesome working for an awesome company that supports the greater EMC, VMware and Cisco communities. The inaugural class of EMC Elect are finding the custom shirts that Clearpath had made for them at EMC World. The shirts are just one of our ways of saying thanks to the EMC Elect for their contributions to the EMC community. If you are one of the EMC Elect, make sure you stop by the Bloggers area at EMC World to pick up your custom shirt!
EMC announced today a new community recognition program called EMC Elect. Much like the VMware vExpert program or the Microsoft MVP program, EMC Elect provides individuals recognition for their contributions to the EMC community. Programs like this are incredibly beneficial – for the honoree as well as for the sponsoring company and the wider technology community. I’ve certainly benefited from being selected as a VMware vExpert, and I hope that VMware has benefited from my feedback as a result of my participation in the vExpert program. More importantly, the positive feedback from the vExpert program has encouraged me to contribute more as a VMUG leader, blogger, consultant and advocate – and I hope above all that my contributions benefit the community. With this in mind, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been honored as a Founder in the EMC Elect program.
The ten founding EMC Elect honorees represent community members from customers, partners, community advocates and EMC specialists. The founders are charged with jumpstarting the program, beginning with a community-driven, peer-nomination program to onboard the freshman class of the Elect. Those honored by being selected for participation in EMC Elect will represent the EMC community at large. While many of the Elect will be storage rockstars, others (like me) will represent the partner, customer, and greater community of storage, virtualization, and security professionals – but we’ll all share the same goal of sharing knowledge, improving our craft, and driving the mutual success of the community.
Those selected to be an EMC Elect will earn a few great benefits:
There are pockets of top influencers hidden all throughout the EMC community – internally and externally; folks who really believe in driving excellence in what they do and sharing what they know with the community. This is your opportunity to recognize these contributors by filling out a nomination form (don’t be shy about self-nomination either). Nominate those employees, customers, and partners who you feel contribute significantly to the overall EMC community. Nominations are open through December 15th. I hope you’ll join us!
For all the details on the EMC Elect program, visit the EMC Community Network (ECN) site here: https://emc.im/RWbRKF
Join your fellow virtualization professionals for an independent networking event. vBeers is designed to be a vendor agnostic, independent event that allows IT pros to get together, network and talk without the influence of the vendors we all get pushed. With a few of the local gurus just returning from Citrix Synergy and some great new releases from VMware and Microsoft there will be plenty to talk about.
Location: RFD Chinatown
Address: 810 7th St NW, Washington, DC
Date: May 23, 2012
Time: 5-8 PM
Visit the vBeers website to register for the event (It’s free, just need to get a count of who is coming!) — Link here: https://www.vbeers.org/2012/04/23/vbeers-dc-23-may-2012/
This is your last chance to register for tomorrow’s (July 12, 2011) big VMware online event, “Raising the Bar, Part V”. During the event, VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will announce the next generation of VMware cloud infrastructure offerings. The event will be broadcasted live beginning at 9:00 AM PDT
The agenda looks like this:
While I don’t have any inside knowledge on the event, I expect new product and service offerings, along with details on recent acquisition announcements on how VMware is bringing to bear its vision for a seamless cloud infrastructure – public, private, hybrid – that is simple to manage, easy to scale, and with all the dynamism that one could imagine. And if that weren’t enough, one lucky attendee for this online event will win a ticket to VMworld 2011. This event promises to be a great intro to what is shaping up to be a great VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas!
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:
Along with this site, I have made a concerted effort engage the virtualization community in several ways:
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
