Eric Sloof

During the TSX days in Nice I have created some small movies with my Sony DVD92E and recoded the VOB files with Nero Recode. After the recoding I edited the MP4 files with Windows Movie maker 6 and placed the movies on YouTube. When you are interested in the opening speech from Richard Garthagen or you just want to get an impression about the TSX in Nice please visit the following address.

Just after the SDK Programming Perl toolkit lab I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Jeremy van Doorn.  He works for VMware since 2004 as a Senior Systems Engineer. His work is to present VMware solutions to customers and speak on seminars.  Besides that he talks, on a daily basis with the costumers about where they can use the VMware products. In the past Jeremy was a security engineer at BT (Syntergra) where he had an advising role regarding secure WAN links. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg, on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

I had an interview with Scott Herold he told me that there are many challenges that exist in implementing a Virtual Infrastructure that fall across various levels of an organization. Find out from Scott Herold, one of the leading industry experts, how these challenges can be overcome and how you can be successful from both a technical and business perspective in your Virtual Infrastructure deployment Scott Herold is a VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC), a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and the owner of www.vmguru.com, a leading virtualization forum. Herold has engineered and implemented some of the largest ESX Server solutions in the world, including those for several financial services and insurance companies. His solutions designs range from two to three physical server implementations to enterprise environments of more than 50 eight-way hosts. Herold is one of the most active participants in the VMware Technology Network Forums, an acknowledge expert in the virtualization field and recognized author of VMware ESX Server, Advanced Technical Guide. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg, on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

The first official day at the TSX in Nice was a busy day. You had to find the most interesting session before the room filled up and your had to get your drinks in time ;-). Besides that I got the opportunity to interview a lot of interesting people. The opening speech went great and I made a little video of the presentation from Richard Garthagen. Tomorrow I am going to take the Perl lab. I will keep you posted. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg, on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

I had an interview with David Bieneman he will be discussing how esxMigrator has simplified and automated the conversion from ESX Server 2 to VI3, how esxCharter has simplified the monitoring, bill back and understanding of VI3 and why esxRanger has become the industry standard for backup and recovery of your virtual machines on VI3. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg, on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

I had an interview with Richard Garsthagen, he is the product Marketing Manager EMEA – Enterprise Desktop This session will discuss what VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure about and how to deploy it in the real world. It will go into broker to use, how to design a secure solution and how practical solution can be. Richard Garsthagen has been with VMware for 4 years. He European technical trainer and moved later to the Technical Manager Position. At the beginning of this year Richard became Product Marketing Manager for VMware’s enterprise desktop (ACE and VDI) focusing solely on how virtualization can improve and management of corporate desktop environments. He is also the the main man behind http://www.run-virtual.com. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

I had an interview with Jacob Jensen, he is the product Manager Datacenter I/O, VMware As server consolidation ratios increase, ESX hosts will require ever more performance from the network. This session will describe how to maximize networking performance in large scale ESX environments. We will cover both current and future technologies that accelerate networking performance. Specific topics include: hardware assist technologies, 10 Gbps Ethernet, Inifinband and best practice network design for maximum performance. Jacob Jensen has over 9 years of experience in data networking and telecommunications. Prior to joining VMware, Jacob worked for Adomo Inc. as a product manager focusing on unified communications solutions for large enterprises. Priori to Adomo, Jacob spent 6 years at Cisco Systems as part of Catalyst 6500 team. Jacob holds a Masters of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg, on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

This video is taken before the official start of the VMware TSX 2007 in Nice, you can see Eric Berglund giving a presentation to the European VMware trainers.  The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

Today I had an interview with Puneet Zaroo, he has been working at VMware in the ESX server Group for the last 2,5 years with CPU scheduling algorithms. Prior to that he did his M.S. from Prudue University and Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Computer Science. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

Today I had an interview with Mike Laverick. He is the owner of  RTFM Education. On his website Mike placed numerous guides and white papers regarding the products of VMware. His daily job is delivering VMware training across Europe. Mike’s status level on the VMware forum is Virtuoso. He brings you up-to-date about the VI-3 book and tells something about the release of ESX 3.1 and the new edition of Virtual Center. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.