VMworld 2014 – VCDX Program Announcements

With John Arrasjid’s permission, I talked about this during the “VCDX Prep” vBrownbag EMEA Podcast in May 2014.  Following on from that podcast, be expecting more information on the following during VMworld 2014:

  1. VCAP/VCDX Boot Camps – 8 hours, will include NV track (NSX), launch by VMworld 2014 (Free)
  2. New book -> “Art of Infrastructure Design, A Practical Guide for IT Architects” – Q4 2014 (By John Arrasjid & co.)
  3. VCDX Mentor Program – 3 month program, 4 hours per month (Free – 32 VCDX Volunteers)
  4. Update to Design Workshops – 3-4 Hours, now using VCDX design methodology (Conferences & Events – Cloud, vSphere, SRM etc.)
  5. Infrastructure Design Workshop – 1-2 Days, offered at VMworld 2014 (Fee based) – Professional Level Class
  6. Infrastructure Design Course – 4-5 days, similar to AcademyX, but without the design requirement (Fee based) – Advanced Level Class
  7. AcademyX – 4-5 days, for candidates with a design, launch by VMworld 2014 (Fee based) – Masters-Level Class

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VMworld 2014 – vCAC Reference Architecture for Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi will be co-presenting their vCAC reference architecture with Shiv Diddee, VMware MENA TAM Leader, at VMworld.  Hany Michael was the VMware PSO Solutions Architect for this project and is also known for his personal technology blog hypervizor.com.

If you want to learn about how vCAC can be applied to the healthcare industry then sign up!  See you at VMworld.

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VMworld 2014 – VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #289

Yesterday I was very lucky to be a guest on the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast (iTunes) to talk about my joint VMworld session with Paul Chambre:

If you want to learn about how to use the VMware vCloud Management suite for configuration and compliance audits then sign up!  See you at VMworld.

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VMworld 2014 – Marvin, I want to meet you!

Marvin A few months ago there was a picture of the “Marvin” poster from the “VMware campus” tweeted by @Cocquyt.  In a recent post by Technodrone, @maishsk picked up on the VMworld VMCI session, aka “Marvin”:

Very exciting stuff, I cannot wait to meet “Marvin” and am very interested in hearing about VMware’s first foray into the hardware arena.  Some of the questions I have:

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