Today I decided to not go to the general session but instead follow it on the big screen in the VMvillage. This gives you the possibility to get coffee during the keynote :). The keynote started with Pat Gelsinger, Sanjay Poonen and Ray O'Farell answering questions that the VMworld attendees could submit yesterday. …

For me VMworld already started on Monday with the Partner Exchange and the TAM day. It started today with the keynote by, amongst other speakers, Pat Gelsinger and Sanjay Poonen. They talked about the strategy for VMware. Pat was saying that tech was breaking out of tech. Alan Renouf was, together with Pat Gelsinger, a …

Today VMworld 2017 started for me. Yesterday I flew in to Barcelona and got my badge and the backpack with, amongst other things, the water bottle and the shirt. Today is the partner exchange and the tam day. I had only sessins in the partner track scheduled. My first two sessions were about VMware Cloud on AWS. The …

VMworld Europe 2017 is almost there. Lots of interesting sessions to visit. I had to make some choices between VMware on AWS and Kubernetes/ containers related sessions as they were mostly at the same time. As my interest is at the moment with AWS and I'm also in process of achieving certifications on AWS, the sessions …

This year I will be attending DockerCon for the first time. My real interest in using containers, and specifically Docker started last year. I also followed two Docker courses. Last year DockerCon was not in Europe, so I very happy that this year I'm able to attend DockerCon in Kopenhagen. The event takes place in …

This year VMworld Europe will again be held in Barcelona, but unlike previous years it will not be in October but already in the second week of September. Just as last year, my employer made it possible for me to attend VMworld Europe. I have to finalize my schedule but as it available, I already started planning which …

Today was the dutch VMUG UserCon 2017. The UserCon took place in the 1931 Congrescentrum Brabanthallen in 's Hertogenbosch. The UserCon offered more a variety of breakout sessions, group discussions, lightning talks and they two keynote session. In total there were more than 65 sessions which was really a lot. The …

Today is the last day of VMworld 2016 Europe. It has been an interesting congress with a lot of topics and also a lot of ways to get information. The last day of VMworld is always the Thursday and you see already of the attendees leaving as they travel back home. The venue gets quieter by the hour. This last days I had …

Today is the first day of VMworld 2016. The day starts with the general keynote session. First speaker during the general session was Jean-Pierre Brulard, general manager EMEA. He started with some statistics. This VMworld there are 10k attendees, 300 sessions. This is the first time that VMworld and a AirWatch connect …

Today was the second day of VMworld, which started with the general session. First speaker was Sanjay Poonen. Sanjay talked about the digital transformation that is already happening in healthcare and education and how the vision of VMware fits in this. After that Sanjay spoke about Workspace One. VMware Workspace ONE …

[ Today VMworld 2016 started for me with the partner and tam day. I already checked in yesterday, but still it was an early start as I had my first session at 8:30 in the morning. During the day I was also able to change my schedule and put some sessions about VMware and AWS in I started with Building & Enabling a …

It is almost time for VMworld Barcelona. That means that if you want to have all the flexibility in choosing the sessions you want to attend, you also need to start as soon as possible with filling in the schedule builder with the sessions you want to attend. This year I'm going together with eight colleagues to …

Last Tuesday, I was together with two colleagues at the AWS Enterprise summit in the World Forum in The Hague. This was for me the second AWS summit that I attended. The event started with a keynote from Ian Massingham, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS. Ian spoke about the impact that cloud has on enterprise IT. After the …

Yesterday I was together with two KPN colleagues at the meetup from Docker Randstad. The meetup was hosted by Blendle in the center of Utrecht. Blendle also arranged the food and drinks. After everybody had some time to eat a slice of pizza, the official part of the evening started. Before the sessions started, Blendle …

This year was again a UserCON organized by the dutch VMware User Group Community. Just like the year before it took place in Den Bosch in the convention center 1931. Last year the NL-VMUG was the largest in the world. This year there were even more attendants then last year that came to the UserCON. A good result for …