Dad! What are you doing? It’s Shark Week!.’ – Dale Doback (John C Reilly) in response to his father shutting off the tv – Step Brothers
Get to VMworld – for free!!!!
In case you haven’t heard there are a couple of vendors that currently running contests that could result in YOU getting a free conference pass to VMworld! So if you haven’t signed up for any of them I suggest that you do! VMworld is a great time and very informative – it’s pure bliss for the likes of myself! So, who’s dishing out the passes. Well, just as they did last year Infinio is giving away a full conference pass, along with a coveted golden ticket to the VMunderground party! Simplivity has a couple of passes to give away – plus a hefty travel stipend to boot! VMturbo – a great sponsor of this blog has already drawn for a couple free passes so if you missed the boat there, don’t miss this one!
Register for you session now!
Keeping on the VMworld theme did you know that Session Builder has opened up this week? If you didn’t you do now. So, if you have a spare hour or two I would suggest you get over there and start to shape your VMworld experience. You’ll have over 300 rich technical sessions to chose from and it’s not an easy choice. I will be posting some of my favorites as soon as I get time to go through it but I suggest you don’t wait for me and go ahead and schedule yours as sometimes the most popular ones fill up fast – and you don’t want to stand in the standby line!!!!
Do you have what it takes to become a virtual design master?
If so you are a little late but there is always 2015!!! The second installment of Virtual Design Master has kicked off in fine form and the contestants have been handed their first challenge. From what I can tell there looks to be 11 participants this year which is completely awesome! Expect to see some great designs coming from this group! Angelo and Eric have really kicked up the prize lot this year too with a ton of awesome prizes donated by a slew of great sponsors! Be sure to catch up by watching the first episode as well as any subsequent episodes here.
Vote for your VeeamON Sessions!
Hopefully by now we all know that Veeam is heading to Vegas to host their first ever user/partner conference dubbed VeeamON. Veeam has received a ton of session requests from both internal and external and unfortunately can’t fit all that Veeam goodness into 4 days – so, they are asking you to take a quick survey to pick ‘la creme de la creme’ and help them get the absolute best of the best in terms of session content! If you plan on attending VeeamON in October I suggest filling this out. I also suggest taking me with you as I am not registered and very envious of you! I’m sure it will be a great time!
Need some books – check out #vBrownBag
Aside from dropping simply awesome knowledge on the community on almost every night of the week the #vBrownBag can also hook you up in terms of a little bit of summer reading. Currently they are hosting the Summer Book-apolooza contest on their site. They have a ton of great books to give away so if you need something to read on your flight to VMworld, chilling on the beach with your family, or some just all-around great bedtime stories for your kids get on over to professionalvmware.com and fill out the form!
