NextIO is extending a price reduction to Federal and Educational institutions.  The method is simple – any vCORE Express 2075 or vCORE Express Lite 2075 orders placed before April 24 for customers in these two areas are eligible for the discounted pricing.  The discounts are as much as $1000 per vCore.

Contact NextIO representatives at channels@nextio.com or your local partner for more information.

Thanks to Gus Chavira and the VMUG for hosting another successful Austin VMUG meeting, this time a much more ambitious User Conference.  The VMware User Group has now posted presentations and documents from the event for anyone to download and share.  Content includes both vendor presentations and VMware updates and best practices, including:

• Architecting and Building a Secure and Compliant Virtual Infrastructure and Private Cloud
• Performance and Analytics Best Practices – Leveraging vCenter Operations
• Accelerate VDI success with Dell EqualLogic and VMware View
• ESXi 5.0 Best Practices
• Troubleshooting Storage Performance
• VCDX Panel Defense Workshop
• vSphere Distributed Switch Deployments
• etc

Definitely some good stuff here!  Check it out at the VMUG website.

Join your fellow VMware users at this free, full-day event for in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations, exhibits, and networking opportunities. Come to South Florida to meet with your peers and industry experts to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

NextIO will have the vNET I/O Maestro on display and available for hands-on interaction.  The vNet simplifies data center management while increasing performance and flexibility with any-to-any connectivity across servers, network, and storage.  Shrink hardware footprint and complexity by eliminating 75% of the cards, cables and leaf switches, while providing 20 Gbps bandwidth to each server for increased application performance.  Come by the booth and we can show you how to save 50% over traditional architecture.

Visit the South Florida VMUG User Conference event page to reserve your place at this event now.  Take advantage of these educational and networking opportunities:

• 8 VMware educational sessions
• 12 partner education tracks
• Exhibitor area with VMware partners
• EMC Labs
• Complimentary breakfast and lunch

Registration is complimentary, so register today!