Join us for VMUG Webcasts Presented by Symantec, RES and Hitachi

	Register Today for the Upcoming VMUG Webcasts VMUG will be hosting a number of education webcasts before the end of the year. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to gain additional training from your desk. See below for details on each webcast and links to register. _____________________________________________________________________________________ No Compromises: Virtualization Security Presented by: Todd Zambrovitz, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Symantec Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Time: 12:00 p.m. CST (GMT -6:00)   Most organizations have successfully pursued virtualization across non-critical data, applications and infrastructure.  While virtualization can provide some level of consolidated control over user environments, the unknown risks due to the fluid and mobile nature of virtual deployments has many organizations proceeding cautiously in extending virtualization to more mission critical operations. This webcast will introduce new innovations from Symantec that can help you confidently extend your virtualization strategy to vital infrastructure and services with mission critical protection and performance achieving a seamless experience for both administrators and users alike. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Delivering ITaaS today with VMware Technology: Delivering User Centric Client Virtualization as a Service to Your End Esers. Presented by: Jeff Wettlaufer, Sr. Director Global Product Marketing, RES Software Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Time: 12:00 p.m. CST (GMT -6:00)   As organizations embark on a journey toward user centric desktop experiences, IT is faced with new priorities based on user preferences, working styles and flexibility requirements. Through the deployment of ITaaS, organizations have been introduced to cost effective, flexible anywhere access to secure, compliant workspace environments.  Many of these capabilities are foreign infrastructure and require new ways of thinking beyond traditional processes and technologies. This should not create complexity. A layered approach to delivering a consistent user centric application model allows IT to bridge from classic workstations to hybrid desktop experiences with complementary capabilities native to the business. _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Hitachi Advantage: Advanced Acceleration with VMware vSphere 5 API's Presented by: Hitachi Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Time: 12:00 p.m. CST (GMT -6:00)   Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Time: 6:00 p.m. CST (GMT -6:00)   Join Hitachi to discover how you can leverage advanced engineering to provide Storage Hardware Offload, Native API Integration, Storage-based Virtualization, and Server SMP to Do More with vSphere 5. Learn about the offload performance benefits of new vStorage APIs, such as VAAI, PSA, and SRM. Achieve new levels of disk space utilization with new Thin Provisioning efficiencies of VAAI in vSphere 5. Discover how Native Integration simplifies your management with VASA, NMP, and vCenter Plugin. Learn how to extend all of these features with VMware and any storage array by leveraging the most advanced Storage Virtualization in the industry. Learn about multi-server SMP and how you can leverage Hardware Virtualization and combine blade servers. Achieve new levels of scale and efficiency by improving VM density and performance with a Hardware accelerated, VAAI-optimized infrastructure. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Additional Upcoming VMUG Webcasts Visit the VMUG Webcast page to register and learn more about our upcoming webcasts. Backup in a SNAP:  Modern Data Protection for VMware Deployments vCenter Operations – What's New, What's Cool?