Lots of New Exciting Things Happened This Week

Hey people, sorry the site hasn’t been as active as it has in the past, I wanted to at least provide you with a weekly update.  As most of you know, I’m the Technical Editor for Scott Lowe’s upcoming book, this has taken up a good majority of my free time. Also things are crazy busy in local government right now, I’ve been working 50-60 hour weeks.  This hasn’t left me with much free time to do anything.  I haven’t signed on to Twitter in a couple days, I missed this weeks VMTN Roundtable… I feel so out of the loop!

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on March 20, 2009

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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Technical Roundtable

If your in the San Diego area and want to get a free breakfast, come meet me tomorrow morning at the Marriott Hotel Del Mar for a Technical Roundtable on Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications.

At this interactive session we will discuss:

  • Virtualizing Applications, with a focus on Enterprise Applications
  • Best Practices for implementation and troubleshooting
  • Negotiating with application vendors and how VMware can help
  • Virtualized Enterprise Application Examples: Exchange, SQL Server, BEA WebLogic, Citrix XenApp, SAP, Siebel

Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
Location: Marriott Hotel Del Mar
11966 El Camino Real
San Diego, CA 92130
To register for the San Diego session click here

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on February 12, 2009

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SAP Virtualization Week 2009

It has been confirmed that I will be speaking at SAP Virtualization Week this year, I will be discussing the City of San Diego’s implementation of SAP Netweaver 7 on VMware ESX 3.5.  Here is some information direct from the SAP Enterprise Virtualization website:

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on February 8, 2009

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Article in NetworkWorld Magazine

An article that I was interviewed for during VMworld 2008 was just published today in NetworkWorld magazine. Definietely some good reading if your into virtualization as much as I am.

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on October 22, 2008

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Speaking at ComputerWorld Virtualization Directions

***UPDATE***
Virtualization Directions was a success, I would like to invite everyone to feel free to listen, you can load the conference by clicking this link.  If you have any questions, please feel free to forward them to me.  My contact information can be found on the About page.

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on October 16, 2008

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Speaking at NetApp Accelerate

Update
Sad to hear that NetApp Accelerate has been canceled.  You can definitely tell our economy isn’t doing too good when conferences like these are canceled. You can read the official NetApp statement on the cancellation on their website.

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This post was written by Rick Scherer on October 15, 2008

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