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This talk is by William Lam (@lamw) regarding his famous vGhetto project at our community meetup. Check out what vGhetto project is and what it means to you:  Read more... (29 words, estimated 7 secs reading time)

This talk is by Dave Briccetti (@dcbriccetti) who is an independent consultant working at VMware on vCloud related project. He is also a committer on the Lift framework for building Web applications in Scala.

Here is his slides:  Read more... (39 words, estimated 9 secs reading time)

This talk is by Steven Wong who is an architect working at EMC on various backup and virtualization projects. If you are using C or C++ with gSOAP to manage vSphere, this talk is for you.

Check it out below:  Read more... (41 words, estimated 10 secs reading time)

This is by Boris Strongin, VP Engineering and Co-founder, Hytrust Inc at our first community meetup on May 18. He reviews new security, auditing, and compliance challenges coming with cloud multi-tenancy, and approaches to address them.

Check out these slides for his insights:  Read more... (44 words, estimated 11 secs reading time)

This is the tech talk by Elsa Bignoli, who is now a Software Engineer at Altor Networks (part of Juniper now). Elsa is one of the contributors to our open source vSphere (VI) Java API.

Check out her presentation slides below:  Read more... (42 words, estimated 10 secs reading time)

This is the tech talk by Giridhar Padmanabh(@girip26), who is now a Sr. Manager at Cisco. He joined Cisco not long ago with the newScale acquisition. This tech talk draws on his 7 years of experience at newScale building industry leading software for delivering private cloud as a service.

Check out the slides below:  Read more... (55 words, estimated 13 secs reading time)

We had a great community meetup last Wednesday. Check out this post for the photos. Thanks to the speakers, we have the tech talks slides ready for you. If you have missed the event last week, just check out these slides in PDF format. At the same time, we are working to make the recording available. So stay tuned for announcement.

Here is the talk is by me. I reviewed the history, current state, and future road map of the open source vSphere Java API. In the end, I also shared 3 success factors for  Read more... (103 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)

My colleague John Troyer (@jtroyer), who hosts VMware Communities Roundtable, has posted an interview with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) and me about our thoughts on VMware SDKs, APIs, and CLIs on May 18. During the interview, I answered questions about the open source vSphere Java APIs, the themes of my blogs (why it’s called doubecloud), what I am doing now at VMware, and of course our first community meetup event on the same day. If you have missed the session, you can listen to it now: , or here.  Read more... (169 words, estimated 41 secs reading time)

Our first community meetup event on Wednesday night was a great success. It attracted about 200 developers/QAs and administrators globally either on site or online with live streaming. An EMC development team flied all the way from Irvine to join us; so did Huawei Symantec from Chengdu of China.

At the end of the meetup, we gave way 20 copies of these books: VMware VI and vSphere SDK by me, VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical deepdive (Volume 1) by Duncan Epping, VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration by Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf, and VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers (2nd Edition) by Edward Haletky; and many gadgets.

We know our attendees took their personal time mainly not  Read more... (360 words, 2 images, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

After preparing the event for almost two months, we are finally ready. If you join us onsite, here is direction to our venue. We have free food/drinks, and many books/gifts waiting for you, thanks to our sponsors and 12 volunteers.

If you join us online, we have a great news for you. Instead of WebEx, we will have a live broadcasting. Here is the URL: http://bit.ly/osvimeetup, courtesy of @lkilpatrick. You can enter as a Guest on 7PM (Pacific Time) for tech talks.

Here are the 8 tech talks we pulled together. A bit long but  Read more... (1066 words, estimated 4:16 mins reading time)