Thank you for attending the Indianapolis VMUG User Conference. We hope you enjoyed the event and found value in the opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

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* 1. Please rate the overall quality of your experience at the Indianapolis VMUG User Conference:

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* 2. Please rate the quality of the morning keynote if you attended: (8:45 am-9:30 am)

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Automation Generation: Or, Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware

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* 3. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #1 (9:45 am-10:30 am):

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Interactive VDI Design Workshop with VCDX #54 - Jason Lagone
Troubleshoot, Optimize and Analyze Your VMware Environments with In-Depth Holistic Visibility - Splunk
Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Storage
Key Elements to Securing your Data Center:  Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments - Trend Micro
Evolving the Data Center to Private Cloud - Cisco
How to Protect Your Applications from a Zombie Apocalypse and Other Less Likely Disaster Scenarios - Pat O'Day, Bluelock
vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive - Justin King, VMware
How to use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Datacenter to the Cloud - Paul Golitz, VMware
PowerCLI Community Session - Matt Griffin

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* 4. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #2 (10:45 am-11:30 am):

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Network Virtualization - Scott Lowe, VMware
Tales From The Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam
Affordable 100% Flash Storage Delivers Performance and Simplicity for VMware  - Pure Storage
Extending Infrastructure Management with vCloud Automaton Center - Adam Eckerle, NSI
Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC
How to Simplify Disaster Recovery Management: Protection in 3 Clicks - Zerto
Performance Best Practices for vSphere - Michael Lyons, VMware
How to Succeed with Your VDI Project - Mark Richards, VMware
Virtualizing SQL Server – Guide for Success - Joe Carver, Microsoft Data Platform TS, and Bob Roudebush, Microsoft Data Center TS

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* 5. Please rate the quality of the Healthcare Special Interest Group Lunch & Learn if you attended: (11:45 am-12:15 pm)

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* 6. Please rate the quality of the afternoon keynote if you attended: (12:15 pm-1:00 pm)

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From Silos to SDDC: A Professional Survival Guide - Trey Layton, CTO, VCE

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* 7. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #3 (1:15 pm-2:00 pm):

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SDDC Journey to Planet Cloud - Mike Laverick, VMware
Hypervisor-Based QoS: Helps with the Symptoms, But by Itself It’s Not the Cure - Solidfire
Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage
Horizon Suite Discussion (End-User Computing) - Erik Mosier, Matrix Integration
Cloud Computing:  vCloud Director Virtual Environment - Brian Walls, NETECH Corp
Zero Intrusion Backup - Virtual Machine Backup That Doesn’t Suck - Symantec 
What's New in vCenter Operations 5.7: Technical Deep Dive - Justin Griffin, VMware
Home Lab Community Session - Ryan Birk

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* 8. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #4 (2:15 pm-3:00 pm):

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vCloud Design. Learn by Example - Kendrick Coleman
Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability - Arista Networks
Top 10 Things You Must Know About Storage for vSphere - HP
VMware View Reference Architecture and Optimization - RoundTower
Nutanix, the Building Block of the Software Defined Datacenter -Simplifying your Virtual Workloads -  Nutanix
How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault
Serving Up Flash-Based Technology in VMware - SanDisk
vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Ben Meadowcroft, VMware

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* 9. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #5 (3:15 pm-4:00 pm):

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Secrets to Success in Your Tech Career - David Davis, Train Signal
50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required - Condusiv
The New Scale-Out Data Tier - A Storage Platform Paradigm Shift - PernixData
vStack for Desktops - Eliminating Complexity and Enabling Return on Investment - Data Strategy
The Tale of Two Clouds - Alex Rodriguez, Expedient
Solving Big Data Backup challenges - Scott Baker, Autonomy, an HP company
SRM 5.1: Technical Lessons Learned for Cloud Protection - Michael MacMillan, Hosting
vCloud Director Best Practices - Jonathan Hemming, VMware

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* 10. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #6 (4:15 pm-5:00 pm):

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See Inside Your Cloud – Attaining Visibility of Virtual Network Traffic - Gigamon
Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp
Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell/Wyse
Discover Hybrid Storage - Tegile Systems
Protecting Physical and Virtual Environments - FalconStor
A Guide to vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) Deployment - Chris Bush, VMware
vCloud Director Upgrade - Jonathan Hemming, VMware

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* 11. Please rate the quality of the following full-day, ongoing sessions if you attended:

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VMware Labs
EMC Labs
VCAP Test Track

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* 12. Which of the following topics would you like to see at future VMUG events (please check all that apply).

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* 13. Which of the following topics are important to your organization's business and IT initiatives?

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* 14. Please rate the value of this event relative to your professional challenges:

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* 15. Would you recommend this event to colleagues that use VMware?

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* 16. Do you plan to join us for future VMUG events?

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* 17. Did you find the mobile app useful?

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* 18. What was the MOST valuable aspect of the event?

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* 19. What was the LEAST valuable aspect of the event?

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* 20. What could VMUG do to improve these events in the future?

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* 21. Do you feel this User Conference provided a good networking opportunity?

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* 22. Are you interested in VMUG volunteer opportunities?

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