I don’t mean the obvious VMware big up but what it means to me.
You can never underestimate how much better it is in meeting people in real life, make the effort and find those internet connections you have at events like VMworld.
Sessions, learning from others and being able to ask questions, the community sessions are fantastic for this and grow in strength and quality every year, check out vBrownBag this year these sessions really stood out for me
- vDeploy – PowerCLI only method to fully deploy a VM [VMTN5513U]\
- Community Involvement for Professional Growth [VMTN5595U]
- Building and Monitoring IOT with Liota and Wavefront by VMware [CODE5546U]\
Hands-on-Labs I hope need no explanation but if you have never done some then there were some real incentives this year, you could randomly win a Raspberry pi, or if you took up the VMware Code coin challenge then certain labs earn’t coins and as always Noell from Cloud Credibility was in the labs area and it was buzzing. This year I struggled to stay in the top ten with Cloud Cred and I’m the world number 1, really looking forward to some strong competition this coming year.
Finally you can not for get the solution exchange, a huge space with all sorts of vendors those you know, those you’ve heard of and those you go who are they. It’s noisy crowded and hectic but there is certainly a buzz. Too many vendors to name them all but a few that stood out are (check them out at VMworld Europe)
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