Don’t miss the first Carolina VMware Users Summit! 

CVUS - 2008 will feature some of the industry’s very best virtualization experts.  If you’ve ever read the Advanced Technical Design Guide, you will have first-hand opportunity to meet the one of the authors and listen to his perspective on a range of virtualization topics.  We will also be giving away an Author’s Edition copy of the not-yet- released VI3 Advanced Technical Design Guide to each company attending, so don’t miss out!!!

We will have VMware experts from EMC, NetApp, McAfee, LeftHand Networks, Vizioncore, Varrow and others!  These experts and speakers will be on-hand to guide us through our everyday challenges and give us a peek into what may be to come.

Speakers will include:

• Mike Laverick, an author of the Advanced Technical Design Guide
• Brad Wagner, an early adopter of virtualization and a pioneer in architecting VMware solutions for Fortune 100 companies
• Dan Weiss, a veteran speaker at VMworld and extremely talented virtualization expert!
• Aaron Chaisson, VMware practice manager at EMC
• Vaughn Stewart, co-author of many VMware whitepapers and Technical Alliance Manager at NetApp
• Adam Carter, VMware expert and researcher from Lefthand Networks
• Sam Svitenko, VMware security expert at McAfee

Topics including:

• "Myth’s about virtualization"
• Leveraging Server Virtualization for the Desktop
• Virtualized Storage and Data Management for a Virtual Infrastructure
• Virtualization of Transactional Workloads - Using Exchange and SQL Server in VMware ESX
• iSCSI and VMware - Production Ready or Not
• Challenges created by Virtualization to the Enterprise Customer

If you have not already, please RSVP soon.  There are very few seats remaining!

April 25, 2008 8:00am - 6:30pm Location: Renaissance Suites Charlotte 2800 Coliseum Centre Dr. Charlotte, NC 28217 see online map

For more information, please contact:

vmugteam@vmware.com