Exit this survey 2012 Phoenix User Conference Follow Up Survey Thank You for attending the Phoenix 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! THIS SURVEY SHOULD ONLY TAKE 3-4 MINUTES, PLEASE ONLY ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT APPLY Question Title * 1. Please rate the overall quality of your experience at the Phoenix VMUG User Conference: Excellent Good Fair Poor Question Title * 2. Please rate the quality of the morning keynote you ATTENDED (8:45-9:30 AM): Excellent Good Poor VMworld 2012 Recap - Matt Mancini VMworld 2012 Recap - Matt Mancini Excellent VMworld 2012 Recap - Matt Mancini Good VMworld 2012 Recap - Matt Mancini Poor Question Title * 3. Please rate the quality of the session(s) you ATTENDED in Breakout #1 (9:45-10:30 AM): Excellent Good Poor EMC - Virtualization of Mission Critical Applications and Unstructured Data EMC - Virtualization of Mission Critical Applications and Unstructured Data Excellent EMC - Virtualization of Mission Critical Applications and Unstructured Data Good EMC - Virtualization of Mission Critical Applications and Unstructured Data Poor Symantec - Creating a Resilient VMware Environment with Application Availability and Manageability Symantec - Creating a Resilient VMware Environment with Application Availability and Manageability Excellent Symantec - Creating a Resilient VMware Environment with Application Availability and Manageability Good Symantec - Creating a Resilient VMware Environment with Application Availability and Manageability Poor Falconstor - Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together Falconstor - Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together Excellent Falconstor - Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together Good Falconstor - Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together Poor Question Title * 4. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #2 (10:45-11:30 AM): Excellent Good Poor VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Excellent VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Good VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Poor VMware - Site Recovery Manager VMware - Site Recovery Manager Excellent VMware - Site Recovery Manager Good VMware - Site Recovery Manager Poor VMware - ESXi Operational Best Practices VMware - ESXi Operational Best Practices Excellent VMware - ESXi Operational Best Practices Good VMware - ESXi Operational Best Practices Poor Question Title * 5. Please rate the quality of the afternoon "Gotcha Session" you ATTENDED (11:30-12:45 PM): Excellent Good Poor Customer Round Table Discussions Customer Round Table Discussions Excellent Customer Round Table Discussions Good Customer Round Table Discussions Poor Question Title * 6. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #3 (12:45-1:30 PM): Excellent Good Poor Dell - Optimize Your VMware Journey with Dell Storage and AppAssure Dell - Optimize Your VMware Journey with Dell Storage and AppAssure Excellent Dell - Optimize Your VMware Journey with Dell Storage and AppAssure Good Dell - Optimize Your VMware Journey with Dell Storage and AppAssure Poor Nimble Storage - Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI Nimble Storage - Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI Excellent Nimble Storage - Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI Good Nimble Storage - Stress-Free Data Protection for VMware and VDI Poor Veem Software - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Veem Software - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Excellent Veem Software - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Good Veem Software - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Poor Question Title * 7. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #4 (1:45-2:30 PM): Excellent Good Poor Trend Micro - Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud Trend Micro - Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud Excellent Trend Micro - Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud Good Trend Micro - Security at Every Stage: Trend Micro, VMware and Your Journey to the Cloud Poor Starboard Storage Systems - Leveraging the Latest Technologies for Today’s Virtual Challenges Effectively & Affordably Starboard Storage Systems - Leveraging the Latest Technologies for Today’s Virtual Challenges Effectively & Affordably Excellent Starboard Storage Systems - Leveraging the Latest Technologies for Today’s Virtual Challenges Effectively & Affordably Good Starboard Storage Systems - Leveraging the Latest Technologies for Today’s Virtual Challenges Effectively & Affordably Poor NetApp - Keeping up with Virtualization by Revolutionizing the Infrastructure NetApp - Keeping up with Virtualization by Revolutionizing the Infrastructure Excellent NetApp - Keeping up with Virtualization by Revolutionizing the Infrastructure Good NetApp - Keeping up with Virtualization by Revolutionizing the Infrastructure Poor Question Title * 8. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #5 (2:45-3:30 PM): Excellent Good Poor VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Excellent VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Good VMware - Performance Best Practices for vSphere Poor VMware - Troubleshooting Storage Performance (Is it the Hardware or the Software? VMware - Troubleshooting Storage Performance (Is it the Hardware or the Software? Excellent VMware - Troubleshooting Storage Performance (Is it the Hardware or the Software? Good VMware - Troubleshooting Storage Performance (Is it the Hardware or the Software? Poor VMware - vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive VMware - vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive Excellent VMware - vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive Good VMware - vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive Poor Question Title * 9. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #6 (3:45-4:30 AM): Excellent Good Poor CommVault - Modern Protection for Virtual Servers CommVault - Modern Protection for Virtual Servers Excellent CommVault - Modern Protection for Virtual Servers Good CommVault - Modern Protection for Virtual Servers Poor Pure Storage - Debugging Storage Performance Bottlenecks Using Flash Memory Pure Storage - Debugging Storage Performance Bottlenecks Using Flash Memory Excellent Pure Storage - Debugging Storage Performance Bottlenecks Using Flash Memory Good Pure Storage - Debugging Storage Performance Bottlenecks Using Flash Memory Poor Coraid - Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture Coraid - Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture Excellent Coraid - Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture Good Coraid - Server Virtualization Demands a New Storage Architecture Poor Question Title * 10. Which of the following topics would you like to see at future VMUG events (please check all that apply). VMware vSphere VMware vSphere Hypervisor VMware vCenter Operations VMware vCloud Director - VMware vShield VMware View VMware ThinApp VMware Horizon VMware Workstation VMware Fusion Zimbra SpringSource VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform Performance Monitoring Global Support Services Other (please specify) Question Title * 11. Which of the following topics are important to your organization's business and IT initiatives? Server Consolidation Virtualization Management Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Enterprise Desktop & Control Cloud Computing Application Development Other Other (please specify) Question Title * 12. Please rate the value of this event relative to your professional challenges: Highly Relevant Relevant Somewhat Relevant Not Very Relevant Question Title * 13. Would you recommend this event to colleagues that use VMware? Yes No If no, why? Question Title * 14. Do you plan to join us for future VMUG events? Yes No If no, why? Question Title * 15. What was the MOST valuable aspect of the event? Technical Sessions Peer Networking Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays VMware Sessions New Product Information Other Other (please specify) Question Title * 16. What was the LEAST valuable aspect of the event? Technical Sessions Peer Networking Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays VMware Sessions New Product Information Other None Other (please specify) Question Title * 17. What could VMUG do to improve these events in the future? Question Title * 18. Do you feel this User Conference provided a good networking opportunity? Yes No If no, how can we improve? Question Title * 19. Are you interested in VMUG volunteer opportunities? Yes No If yes, please provide your name, company title and email. Thank you for your input, feedback is vital in the review process and is important so that we can continue to improve VMUG User Conferences! Please email memberservices@vmug.com for questions. Done