{"id":2079,"date":"2017-01-23T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:32:05","slug":"aws-vmware-admins-london-vmug-slide-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/2017\/01\/aws-vmware-admins-london-vmug-slide-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS for VMware Admins – London VMUG Slide Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Chris Porter<\/a> and I did a presentation at the London VMUG<\/a> on AWS for VMware admins, a simple beginners guide with a few gotchas and tips we’ve picked up along our journeys to the public cloud.<\/p>\n

The session itself was pretty well received, and we were lucky enough to have standing room only attendance (it was a very small room! \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n

To open up proceedings and get a feel for our audience, we ran a quick survey of the 50 or so VMware professionals who were in attendance, and the results were pretty interesting.<\/p>\n

To the question “Have you played with AWS before?”, over half of the room raised their hands, though with a caveat from one attendee who asked if creating the account qualifies! (You know who you are!)<\/p>\n

“Do you have any AWS experience on the job?” saw a number of hands drop, and perhaps 30-40% of the room said yes.<\/p>\n

What was most interesting was that to the penultimate question “Are you using AWS in Production today?”, only a single hand in the room remained raised!<\/p>\n

Finally, we asked “Are you planning to do any AWS certs in the next 12 months?” and the resounding answer from over 60%-70% of the audience was a clear yes!<\/p>\n

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Conclusions<\/h5>\n

So what conclusions can we draw from this straw poll?<\/p>\n

Seemingly most of the attendees were either using AWS for dev\/test or simply playing with it in the work lab, however with a clear preference to complete certs this year, the future is certainly looking a lot more cloudy for your average VMware administrator, either in their current organisation, or perhaps even elsewhere!<\/p>\n

Slide Deck<\/h5>\n

Anyway, enough jibber jabbing! You can find a copy of the slide deck below:<\/p>\n

AWS for VMware Admins Deck<\/a><\/p>\n

If you were unable to make the session and happen to be in or around Glasgow on April 20th, we will hopefully be doing a repeat!<\/p>\n

Further Reading<\/h5>\n

If you want to find out more about AWS, certification, etc, I have a load of additional resources and posts available here:<\/p>\n

Index of Tekhead.it Blog Posts on Amazon AWS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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