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VMUG Romania – Race On

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

On November 1st, the VMware community in Romania is shifting gears, quite literally! The VMUG Romania – Race On event promises an exhilarating fusion of knowledge sharing and adrenaline-pumping kart racing at the prestigious VMAX Karting in Bucharest.

Race On – Event Details

Date and Time: Wednesday, November 1 · 9am – 2:30pm EET
Location: VMAX Karting Bucuresti

Attendance is limited, so make sure to secure your spot by registering for the event here. Please note that participation in the entire event is a prerequisite for joining the karting session.

Race On – Agenda

08:30 – 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:05: Opening Remarks by VMUG Romania
09:05 – 09:50: Presentation by Cristian Stan, Pure Storage
09:50 – 10:00: Break
10:00 – 10:45: Presentation by Cornel Popescu, Veeam
10:45 – 11:15: Presentation by Adrian Birzu, Oracle
11:15 – 11:30: Break
11:30 – 12:30: Presentation by Cristian Radu, VMware
12:30 – 14:30: “Race On”

VMUG Romania Report – GPU, AI, and VMware News

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

On February 11, 2020, at PointHub in the usual location, about 50 technology enthusiasts attended the first VMUG Romania meeting in 2020. We managed to start the year in force with two special guests, VCDX certified: Niels Hagoort (VMware) and Johan van Amersfoort (ITQ).

The winter edition of the VMUG Romania meeting was sponsored by:

VMware – Program Sponsor
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Platinum Sponsor
Commvault – Gold Sponsor
Pure Storage – Gold Sponsor
Veeam – Silver Sponsor

Fighting Cancer with VMware Technology, GPUs, and ML – Niels Hagoort and Johan van Amersfoort

Niels Hagoort (VCDX # 212 and Technical Marketing Architect at VMware’s Cloud Platform Business Unit) together with Johan van Amersfoort (VCDX # 238, EUC Architect and Tech Marketing Manager at ITQ Consultancy) introduced us to a special world, that of the GPU devices. Johan started with a brief history of video games and the influence of GPUs. We listened stories about Doom (the Game) and Toy Story (the Movie), GeForce and Voodoo (the GPU cards), then switched to GPUs used for High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL).

VMUG Romania Meeting – 11 February 2020

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

VMUG Romania invites you to the next meeting held in Bucharest on 11th February 2020 in the same cool location, PointHub. I thought it will be interesting to have an informal name for each edition, so this will be “the 2 VCDX edition”.

This edition will be sponsored by:

VMware – Program Sponsor
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Platinum Sponsor
Commvault – GoldSponsor
PureStorage – Gold Sponsor
Veeam – Silver Sponsor

The opening keynote will be held by Niels Hagoort and Johan von Amersfoort.

Keynote: Fighting Cancer with VMware Technology, GPUs, and ML

We will go into details about a medical research institution customer case that realized a way to discover and detect cancer cells in an early stage using photo analyses. We will demo how vSphere technology running a machine learning application utilizing GPUs helped to make this possible. In this session, we will explain the details about GPU architecture and elaborate on how VMware vSphere ESXi supports the usage of GPUs. Learn how you can benefit from GPU compute power when using machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) workloads.

VMware vForum Romania 2019

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

Wednesday 27 November 2019, Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel from Bucharest will host the biggest yearly VMware event from Romania, vForum Romania 2019.

The event will start with few global sessions:

Quo Vadis VMware, Colin Bannister, vice-president EMEA VMware
A story about yesterday & tomorrow – a glimpse on how technology will change the world, Valentina Frangu, Dell Technologies Romania
Build a secure and scalable Hybrid Cloud with HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation, Alexandru Vilcu, HPE Romania
Accelerating your cloud migration with VMware Cloud on AWS, Dragos Madarasan, AWS

Even better than last year, after the general sessions we will split in no less than tree tracks: Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device; Software Defined Datacenter; and Hybrid Cloud.

VMUG Romania February Meeting Report

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

On 12 February 2019, VMUG Romania held its first meeting of this year in one of the best location we have seen so far: Journey Pub in Bucharest. More than 50 persons attended the full-day event. Two records here, one for the number of participants and the other for the event duration. Dell EMC and Bitdefender were the sponsors of this meeting.

My fellow leaders made me the honor of opening the meeting. After my short introduction, Razvan Ionescu made the announcement of the year in my opinion: the keynote speaker for VMUG Romania next meeting on 11 June 2019 will be Joe Baguley, VP and CTO VMware EMEA. Joe is an inspiring speaker, I’m confident we will have a lot to learn from him. You can watch Joe in few episodes of VMware Carpool Tech Talk. Mihai Huica then introduced a new tool we used for gathering feedback from audience.

VMUG Romania February Meeting

January 26, 2019January 29, 2019 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

Four months after the previous VMUG Romania meeting, we invite you to a new event dedicated to VMware technologies. Journey Pub in Bucharest will be our host for 12 February 2019. We will have presentation sessions, demos, networking and hopefully some interesting announcements.

This is the first full-day meeting for VMUG Romania, so be patient till the end for a non-virtual craft beer tasting session.

Next to VMware presentation (Cristian Radu – “Deep Dive VMware NSX-V”) and those of the sponsors Dell EMC (Cristian Stan – The Power of Hyper-Converged) and Bitdefender (Gabriel Mihai Mazarache – Security automation, performance, and response across multiple VMware clouds), we will have no less then 4 community sessions.

VMUG Romania October Meeting Report

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

Better late than never, so here it is the report for VMUG Romania latest meeting. On 16th October, 35 guests attended the last VMUG Romania meeting of the year. We held our meeting in the beautiful offices of our sponsor, Veeam. This meeting we added a new feature to our meeting: at the request of few remote colleagues, we streamed live on Facebook almost all the presentations. This allowed me to embed the videos into this article, so double win! We received cool feedback, so for next sessions we will have some sort of live streaming for sure.

I had the honor to present in the first slot of the meeting. As this year is the first year when Romania has not only one, but 2 vExperts, I thought this is a good opportunity to spread the word about vExpert program into the community. I talked about vExpert program, about the benefits of joining it and I showed the audience my path to vExpert. You can watch below my presentation in Romanian.

VMUG Romania October Meeting

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

At VMUG Romania we have a busy October: on 2nd October we take part to VMware vForum Romania with a presentation booth, then on 16th October we will host our autumn meeting in a new venue, AFI Park 5, Bucharest.

If you don’t know what you can expect from such a meeting, you can read my report for the February VMUG meeting.

Agenda

Cornel Popescu (Veeam) – Improve data protection with Veeam CDP for vSphere and Availability Orchestrator
Community session – Victor Homocea – vSAN in real life
Community session – Constatin Ghioc – All about vExpert
Community session – Razvan Ionescu – PowerCLI and bulding custom vSphere images
Cristian Radu (VMware) – VMware, what’s new

In the end we will host a raffle, be sure to be there to claim your prize

Location

AFI Park 5, 9th Floor
Veeam Software, Timisoara Avenue 4A
Bucharest, Romania, 061344

Participation is free. Registration is mandatory.

VMUG Romania meeting from 16 October 2018 is sponsored by Veeam.

VMware vForum Romania 2018

August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

VMware announced 2018 edition of their 1 full-day conference in Romania, vForum. On 2nd October, Crown Plaza Hotel from Bucharest will host the biggest annual event of VMware Romania.

“VMware vFORUM 2018 is a full day of innovation to accelerate your digital transformation through a software-defined approach to business and IT. We show you how you can improve business agility by modernizing data centers and integrating public clouds, and create exceptional experiences by empowering a secure digital workspace. Get ready for industry-leading insights, keynotes, breakout sessions and customer case studies on the trends that matter most to your business and to IT.” – VMware vForum official site

This year the event has a long list of sponsors: Dell, Fortinet, HPE, Veeam, AWS, Check Point, Eta-2U, Kapsch, Novatech, and TechData.

VMUG Romania Meeting February 2018

February 25, 2018May 10, 2018 Constantin Ghioc Leave a comment

Together with Razvan Ionescu, I hosted last Friday the first VMUG Romania meeting of 2018. This time we returned to our hosts from Impact Hub, but in their new and modern home from Timpuri Noi building.

Despite our efforts on advertising the event, we took a hit for the number of participants. We may had issues due to another event ran same end of the week by HPE and VMware in Brasov.

However, we were happy to have with us our friends from NetApp and Logicom, which sponsored the event.

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