Dell TechCenter Crew

Dell TechCenter's DTCUG Community Event at VMworld 2011 featured five distinguished VMware virtualization SMEs. Their presentations are presented below.





DTCUG-IO Speakers & Presentations


Jay Weinshenker (@aus_effendi)

Jay has been an Oracle Applications DBA for 15 years and has every Oracle core DBA OCP certification from 7.3 to 11g. Jay also is a recognized RedHat Certified Engineer Linux expert (RHCE) and VMware Certified Profession (VCP4). He is a VMware vExpert 2009-2011 and his blog is http://weinshenker.net/blog/.

Todd Muirhead (@virtualTodd)

Performance Engineer at VMware focusing on storage and Tier-1 applications including Exchange, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle and Oracle RAC. Co-Creator / Maintainer of open source DVD Store benchmark test kit. Founding member of Dell TechCenter with lots of great stories to tell about Kong. Blogs on http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/ & http://virtualtoddsbigblog.blogspot.com/.

Jonathan Franconi (@s1xth)

Jonathan is a Network Administrator & Technology Coordinator at Guard Insurance Group. Jonathan is an avid social media proponent, supporter in the technology community and operator of a virtualization centric blog. Jonathan earned the 2011 vExpert award, which is awarded to individuals that have given back to the community of VMware users by sharing their technical expertise and evangelizing to others about VMware virtualization solutions. His blog is http://www.virtualizationbuster.com/.

Matt Vogt (@mattvogt)

Matt is a Sr. Systems Administrator with a focus on virtualization and storage in Los Angeles currently working for a Graduate School with over 4000 students and 500 staff. Matt is a heavy user of social media where my primary focus is to connect with other professionals, share experiences, gather resources and connect people together. His Blog is http://mattvogt.posterous.com.





Merlin Glynn (@virtualMerlin)

VMware vCloud Architect focusing on building cloud solution on VMware's cloud Platform with Dell (and other OEM partners :). Merlin has 20+ years experience in architecting large scale compute infrastructure. He has built HPC platforms that have been listed on http://www.top500.org as well as large cloud implementations delivering Electronic Medical Record Services to Large Hospitals in the US and the UK. Merlin likes performance tuning 1970-74 Dodge Challengers/Plymouth Barracuda's and kittens.