2012 UK User Conference Follow Up Survey

Thank You for attending the United Kingdom 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

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

Excellent

Good

Fair

Poor

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* 2. Please rate the quality of the morning keynote if you attended: (9:00-9:45 AM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
VMware, Joe Baguley - Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil?	VMware, Joe Baguley - Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil? Excellent	VMware, Joe Baguley - Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil? Good	VMware, Joe Baguley - Software Defined Data Centre, Weapon or Necessary Evil? Poor

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* 3. Please rate the quality of the session(s) you ATTENDED in Breakout #1 (10:00-10:45 AM):

	Excellent	Good	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
Veeam - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You	Veeam - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Excellent	Veeam - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Good	Veeam - 5 Ways Smart VM Backups May Surprise You Poor
Teradici - How to Enhance Your VDI Experience	Teradici - How to Enhance Your VDI Experience Excellent	Teradici - How to Enhance Your VDI Experience Good	Teradici - How to Enhance Your VDI Experience 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
Community, Ricky El-Qasem - Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers	Community, Ricky El-Qasem - Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers Excellent	Community, Ricky El-Qasem - Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers Good	Community, Ricky El-Qasem - Creating VMware Apps for Novice Programmers Poor

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* 4. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #2 (11:15-12:00 PM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Excellent	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Good	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Poor
VMware, Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish - VCDX Boot Camp	VMware, Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish - VCDX Boot Camp Excellent	VMware, Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish - VCDX Boot Camp Good	VMware, Hugo Phan and Aidan Dalgleish - VCDX Boot Camp Poor
VMware, Alan Renouf and William Lam - Practical Automation for Everyone	VMware, Alan Renouf and William Lam - Practical Automation for Everyone Excellent	VMware, Alan Renouf and William Lam - Practical Automation for Everyone Good	VMware, Alan Renouf and William Lam - Practical Automation for Everyone Poor
VMware, Matthew Steiner - What's New in vSphere 5.1	VMware, Matthew Steiner - What's New in vSphere 5.1 Excellent	VMware, Matthew Steiner - What's New in vSphere 5.1 Good	VMware, Matthew Steiner - What's New in vSphere 5.1 Poor
Community, Chris Dearden - A Techie's Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support	Community, Chris Dearden - A Techie's Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support Excellent	Community, Chris Dearden - A Techie's Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support Good	Community, Chris Dearden - A Techie's Guide to Getting the Most Out of IT Support Poor

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* 5. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #3 (13:00-13:45 PM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
Fusion-io - Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation	Fusion-io - Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation Excellent	Fusion-io - Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation Good	Fusion-io - Flash as a Cache – Rethinking Virtualisation Poor
Embotics - Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds	Embotics - Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds Excellent	Embotics - Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds Good	Embotics - Lessons Learned in Deploying Private Clouds 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
Quantum - The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product	Quantum - The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product Excellent	Quantum - The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product Good	Quantum - The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product Poor
Community, Mike Laverick - Building my vCloud Director Home Lab	Community, Mike Laverick - Building my vCloud Director Home Lab Excellent	Community, Mike Laverick - Building my vCloud Director Home Lab Good	Community, Mike Laverick - Building my vCloud Director Home Lab Poor

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* 6. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #4 (14:15-15:00 PM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Excellent	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Good	VMware, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Deep-Dive Discussion Group Poor
VMware, Cormac Hogan - VMware Storage Update - 5.1: Storage Features and Storage Futures	VMware, Cormac Hogan - VMware Storage Update - 5.1: Storage Features and Storage Futures Excellent	VMware, Cormac Hogan - VMware Storage Update - 5.1: Storage Features and Storage Futures Good	VMware, Cormac Hogan - VMware Storage Update - 5.1: Storage Features and Storage Futures Poor
VMware, Aidan Dalgleish - vCloud Director DR	VMware, Aidan Dalgleish - vCloud Director DR Excellent	VMware, Aidan Dalgleish - vCloud Director DR Good	VMware, Aidan Dalgleish - vCloud Director DR Poor
VMware, Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard - Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation	VMware, Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard - Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation Excellent	VMware, Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard - Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation Good	VMware, Tom O’Rourke and Kim Raynard - Dynamic Ops – Cloud Automation Poor
Community, Tom Howarth - Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI	Community, Tom Howarth - Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI Excellent	Community, Tom Howarth - Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI Good	Community, Tom Howarth - Deep Dive on Desktop Design for VDI Poor

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* 7. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #5 (15:15-16:00 PM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
Whiptail - Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff	Whiptail - Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff Excellent	Whiptail - Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff Good	Whiptail - Flash 101 – The Physics and Stuff Poor
Hitachi Data Systems - Making vCenter Smarter with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director Advanced Integration	Hitachi Data Systems - Making vCenter Smarter with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director Advanced Integration Excellent	Hitachi Data Systems - Making vCenter Smarter with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director Advanced Integration Good	Hitachi Data Systems - Making vCenter Smarter with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director Advanced Integration Poor
VMTurbo - Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive?	VMTurbo - Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive? Excellent	VMTurbo - Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive? Good	VMTurbo - Can You Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure so That Optimized Performance and High Resource Utilization are Not Mutually Exclusive? Poor
iLand - vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon	iLand - vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon Excellent	iLand - vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon Good	iLand - vCloud Services: IT’s Secret Weapon Poor
Community, Julian Wood - vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers	Community, Julian Wood - vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers Excellent	Community, Julian Wood - vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers Good	Community, Julian Wood - vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers Poor

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* 8. Please rate the quality of the closing keynote if you attended: (16:15-16:45 PM):

	Excellent	Good	Poor
Scott Lowe - Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT	Scott Lowe - Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT Excellent	Scott Lowe - Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT Good	Scott Lowe - Staying Sharp and Relevant in IT Poor

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* 9. 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)

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* 10. 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)

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

Highly Relevant

Relevant

Somewhat Relevant

Not Very Relevant

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

Yes

If no, why?

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

Yes

If no, why?

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* 14. 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)

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* 15. 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)

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

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

Yes

If no, how can we improve?

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* 18. Are you interested in VMUG volunteer opportunities?

Yes

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.