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VMworld Fun

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Folks it’s that time of year again, where the virtualization community descends on San Francisco for VMworld.  Every year there are announcements made and twitter battles fought and this year will prove no different. With many announcements already slated it should prove to be an interesting week.

Much like the rest of the tech industry I will be there working at the EMC booth, come by and let’s chat Enterprise Hybrid Cloud or End User Computing! Or come watch v0dgeball where I will be participating with my fellow vExperts trying to win it all for charity. Hit me up on twitter or just follow the timeline to find which party I am enjoying a beer at and I can’t wait to see everyone there.

Once announcements are official I will post thoughts and awesomeness here, until then Boots and Pants

 

 

Capitol Region Virtual Technology Users Group (CRVTUG)

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Just a quick note that I am excited to be a part of the first CRVTUG meeting on July 30th of this year. I will be presenting the EMC ViPR solution for abstracting the storage layer of the SDDC and automating the process. The demo and presentation will be short (about 30 mins) but I will also be at the EMC table at the event.  I really hope to see everyone there to get your ticket go to CRVTUG.com

The goal for the CR VTUG is to allow for all virtualization technologies to be represented and for more technical conversations to be facilitated.  So Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and Openstack admins in the DC Metro area should really make an effort to make it. You never know the users group may be the place where you find the answer to a nagging problem or meet a future co-worker. If nothing else it will provide a community that will try to help and understands the problems that you face.

Let’s make this a truly technical group and not a sales forum. I am stoked to be a part of it.

Anti-FUD Campaign

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Remember the movie Miracle on 34th St? For those of you who live under a rock the movie is about a little girl and her mother meeting the real Santa Claus. Santa for reasons still somewhat unclear went to work at Macy’s during his short offseason between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and did something crazy, he told customers where they could find specific toys for their kids at the competition. At first Mr. Macy was beside himself until he realized that the method built life long customers out of those who heard about it. In the movie the idea was more about the Christmas spirit than smart advertising, but in reality this method works really well. Take for example Progressive insurance who shows customers competitive pricing, before doing so they had annual sales of $3.4 billion and since implementing this tactic now have annual sales of $15 billion.  Amazon uses similar tactics, that’s why they sell advertising to their competition. [1] In our industry even VMware uses this technique in vCAC integrated ITBM to show you what your cloud costs would be for AWS, Azure and vCHS.
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