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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North East VMUG 20th September 2018

NEVMUG, vExpert, VMUG

  The Next North East VMUG (NEVMUG) event will be held on Thursday 20th September 2018 @  “The Royal Station Hotel” in Newcastle. Check out the Line up !!!     VMWare Keynote -Cormac Hogan – @CormacJHogan What’s happening in the world of VMware Storage A closer look at some of the more recent announcements around VMware storage related products and features. There will be lots to talk about as this will be so soon after the US VMworld 2018 event. We will look at new enhancements to VMware, VVols, IO Filters, Core Storage and even projects that are happening around persistent storage […]

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Unitrends vBE Introduction

Unitrends

vBE (short for VM Backup Essentials), converges enterprise-grade backup software, ransomware detection, and cloud continuity into a powerful, easy-to-use, all-in-one platform priced 30% less than comparable products. An “All-in-One Solution” vBE provides a disruptive approach to backup – with complete vertical integration (including the cloud), fast time to value and an all-in-one solution provided by a single vendor with industry-leading customer service. vBE includes all the software and features you would find in an enterprise-level data protection and recovery solution. vBE includes operating system, security, backup software, WAN acceleration, replication, cloud integration, and archiving. With an easy to use interface […]

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Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

vExpert, Zerto

This product review is off the back of the vRetreat experience back in February, for details of the vRetreat experience check out my previous post. I personally have been using Zerto for some time, I was introduced to Zerto back in 2013 where we reviewed the product to conduct a very large Datacenter migration, and since 2013 I have installed and used Zerto for several large customer deployments, providing Datacenter and Application replication and resilience. The latest version of Zerto (6.0) was released in February this year, this release is feature rich and has “Evolved Beyond DR” providing an IT […]

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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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