Hello, vBrisket Community! We are excited to announce our next gathering and that we are teaming up with the Pittsburgh VMUG to bring you a summer community event you will not want to miss. Along with the BBQ, beer, fun and networking – we are excited to welcome Bryan Krausen to lead us in a discussion that we have entitled ‘Success in a Mulit-Cloud World.’ Bryan is a fellow vE... »
Happy Friday fellow vBrisketeers! In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months or maybe you’re not as active in the IT Community as you should be, we here @vBrisket are planning a really awesome set of events all tying to VMworld 2016. PART I The 2 week extravaganza will begin as a bus ride starting in Chicago on Tuesday, August 23rd and wrap up in Vegas on Saturday,... »
Working in a pre-sales technical role affords me a lot of opportunity to travel and attend conferences – something I really enjoy. The ‘responsibilities’ however of working as a vendor during these conferences has a direct impact on how you consume, participate and engage at these conferences. My friend Gabriel Chapman has a nice write up of his experiences attending VMWorld as... »
Beware….it turns out when you go to a local VMUG, you might be assigned homework. This turned out to be the case for me a couple of weeks ago while attending the Louisville VMUG. During his ‘Automating the Next Generation DC’ session, Josh Atwell assigned all attendees some homework: Establish a GitHub login, build a repository, download the GitHub desktop and commit some work.... »
A few weeks ago the Western PA VMUG leaders decided to get together and talk about our local group and things that we each were concerned about. The leadership team consists of Eric Kubla, David Hewett, Thomas Higgins, Eric Pond and myself with Alex Musicante being our primary contact with VMware (he was also a a very dedicated leader before working for VMware). We needed to discuss the upcoming ... »