Category: AWS North East User Group

AWS North East User Group – Recap

AWS, AWS North East User Group

Last week we were pleased to host our 1st AWS North East User Group event of 2019, and to kick off the year we lifted the bar slightly with a new sponsor from “God’s Country”. This was the 3rd event since the re-boot of the user group where we have visited 3 different locations across the North East of England (Newcastle, South Shields and Sunderland). The plan is to visit a different region with each event we host to build on the community as we move across the North east. This event was sponsored by Tombola in Sunderland and we […]

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NEVMUG September 2018 – Recap

AWS North East User Group, Community, NEVMUG, VMUG

Yesterday was our second North East VMUG event of 2018 and what an event it was, we arranged for another 1st class lineup and continued with a full day event as per our members requests. Below are the sponsor, Keynote and community sessions we had planned. We kicked off the day with our introduction session with Kyle as the MC. First up was our VMware Keynote from Cormac Hogan, Director and Chief Technologist @ VMware – Cormac had the attendees full attention as he covered a session on “What’s happening in the world of VMware Storage”. Next we had our […]

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AWS North East (Session Two) – Recap

AWS, AWS North East User Group, Community

    Yesterday we were pleased to host the second AWS North East User Group meet up of 2018, this time the event was held at “ONE Trinity Green” in South Shields and was jointly sponsored by HTG and South Tyneside Council (Jennifer Milne).   The event was greatly received on social media and we were expecting a great turn out for our second event of 2018.   As you can see below the crowd were raring to go….. Therefore we started off with a brief introduction from Graham Wright (CEO) @ HTG   First out the blocks was Ric Harvey @ric__harvey […]

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2018 1st Quarter

Achievements, Achievements, AWS North East User Group, Community, vExpert, VMUG

    2018 So Far … 2018 has started extremely well for myself, the first event which I was privileged to attend was vRetreat in London on 16th February, this was a great event hosted by Patrick Redknap, sponsored by Cohesity and Zerto, my full write up of the day can be found here.     Next up on 22nd February we had the first North East VMUG event of 2018 where we smashed our attendance figures with five new sponsors, some great VMware Keynotes and three excellent community sessions, the recap of the event can be found here. Next […]

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AWS North East User Group – Recap

AWS, AWS North East User Group, Community

This month we were pleased to announce and host the first AWS North East User Group, this is a joint venture that myself & Kyle Jenner have pondered over for a few months, therefore for the start of 2018 we decided to re-activate this User Group in the North East of England. We were surprised at the initial uptake of the group on Meetup where we now have over 100 members signed up. With this in mind the planning of the first event was well underway, as like all User Group communities we were looking for our first sponsor and […]

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