This is the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Virtual. Originally this event was planned for the end of March/ beginning of April in Amsterdam. I was really looking forward to it because Amsterdam is very near where I live. Because of covid-19 is wast decided to postpone the event and finally they made it a …

As I already explained in my earlier post, this was my first KubeCon | CloudNativeCon that I attended. What I liked about KubeCon was the diversity in sessions and that it was often a difficult choice per time slot which session to attend. For me this congress was next to attending sessions also about networking with …

This year I'm going to KubeCon | CloudNativeCon which is held in Barcelona from Monday, May 20, 2019 - Thursday, May 23. This is my first KubeCon and I'm really looking forward to the sessions and the meetings I have scheduled Here is list of tips which kind of apply to every conference I have attended. Wear …

On the 28th of June the event Containers Today was held in the Fokker Terminal in The Hague. This event was organized by Amazic and Lef Marketing. KPN ICT Consulting was one of the sponsors of this event, next to Docker, Amazic etc. A booth and a session were part of the sponsor package. It was very nice weather and as …

On the 28th of June the event Containers Today is being organized by Amazic. My employer, KPN ICT Consulting is one of the gold sponsors of this event and I will be one of the speakers during one of the breakout sessions. Hope to see you there or on the booth. Containers Today - Experience the exciting world of …

This is the second edition of DockerCon in Europe. Last year DockerCon was only hosted in the United States. DockerCon, the conference part, was on Tuesday and Wednesday but on Monday you could attend workshops, hallway track sessions and hands on labs. Monday evening was the Welcome reception during which you visit …

This is my first DockerCon that I will attend. Like with VMworld, I will blog about the conference. As the conference starts in a few days I want to share what my schedule will look like. The thing I noticed the most was that building VMware schedule is most of the time quite easy. For DockerCon I found it more …

Yesterday was the third and last day of VMworld 2017 Europe. I had two sessions scheduled. Both were VMware Cloud on AWS related. First session was: Protecting Virtual Machines in VMware Cloud on AWS. In this session, VMware and Dell EMC also presented their capabilities for this subject. Interesting solutions in which …

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 …