Exit this survey 2013 New York/New Jersey User Conference Follow Up Survey Thank you for attending the New York/New Jersey VMUG User Conference. We hope you enjoyed the event and found value in the opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology! THIS SURVEY SHOULD ONLY TAKE 3-4 MINUTES, PLEASE ONLY ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT APPLY Question Title * 1. Please rate the overall quality of your experience at the New York/New Jersey VMUG User Conference: Excellent Good Fair Poor Question Title * 2. Please rate the quality of the morning keynote if you attended: (9:15 am-10:00 am): Excellent Good Fair Poor Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware Excellent Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware Good Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware Fair Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale - Nick Weaver, VMware Poor Question Title * 3. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #1 (10:15 am-11:00 am): Excellent Good Fair Poor Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Excellent Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Good Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Fair Making Sense of Solid-State - NexGen Poor Evolve your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Evolve your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Excellent Evolve your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Good Evolve your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Fair Evolve your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Poor vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Scott Calvet, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Scott Calvet, VMware Excellent vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Scott Calvet, VMware Good vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Scott Calvet, VMware Fair vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Scott Calvet, VMware Poor Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Excellent Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Good Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Fair Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Poor Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Excellent Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Good Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Fair Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Poor Question Title * 4. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #2 (11:15 am-12:00 pm): Excellent Good Fair Poor Private Cloud – Getting it Right the First Time - Embotics Private Cloud – Getting it Right the First Time - Embotics Excellent Private Cloud – Getting it Right the First Time - Embotics Good Private Cloud – Getting it Right the First Time - Embotics Fair Private Cloud – Getting it Right the First Time - Embotics Poor Up and Running Quickly with the New Web Client - Nicole Johnson, VMware Up and Running Quickly with the New Web Client - Nicole Johnson, VMware Excellent Up and Running Quickly with the New Web Client - Nicole Johnson, VMware Good Up and Running Quickly with the New Web Client - Nicole Johnson, VMware Fair Up and Running Quickly with the New Web Client - Nicole Johnson, VMware Poor The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Systems The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Systems Excellent The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Systems Good The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Systems Fair The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Systems Poor Software Defined Datacenter - Scott Calvet, VMware Software Defined Datacenter - Scott Calvet, VMware Excellent Software Defined Datacenter - Scott Calvet, VMware Good Software Defined Datacenter - Scott Calvet, VMware Fair Software Defined Datacenter - Scott Calvet, VMware Poor How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault Excellent How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault Good How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault Fair How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - CommVault Poor Question Title * 5. Please rate the quality of the afternoon keynote if you attended: (12:30 pm-1:15 pm): Excellent Good Fair Poor Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Excellent Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Good Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Fair Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Poor Question Title * 6. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #3 (1:30 pm-2:15 pm): Excellent Good Fair Poor A Guide to VDS Deployments - Nicole Johnson, VMware A Guide to VDS Deployments - Nicole Johnson, VMware Excellent A Guide to VDS Deployments - Nicole Johnson, VMware Good A Guide to VDS Deployments - Nicole Johnson, VMware Fair A Guide to VDS Deployments - Nicole Johnson, VMware Poor Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together - Falconstor Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together - Falconstor Excellent Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together - Falconstor Good Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together - Falconstor Fair Protecting Physical & Virtual Environments, Together - Falconstor Poor The Next Step in Virtualization – Network Virtualization: Two Customers’ Deployment Stories on Why and How They Migrated to “Wi-Fi on VMware" - ADTRAN/Bluesocket The Next Step in Virtualization – Network Virtualization: Two Customers’ Deployment Stories on Why and How They Migrated to “Wi-Fi on VMware" - ADTRAN/Bluesocket Excellent The Next Step in Virtualization – Network Virtualization: Two Customers’ Deployment Stories on Why and How They Migrated to “Wi-Fi on VMware" - ADTRAN/Bluesocket Good The Next Step in Virtualization – Network Virtualization: Two Customers’ Deployment Stories on Why and How They Migrated to “Wi-Fi on VMware" - ADTRAN/Bluesocket Fair The Next Step in Virtualization – Network Virtualization: Two Customers’ Deployment Stories on Why and How They Migrated to “Wi-Fi on VMware" - ADTRAN/Bluesocket Poor vCenter 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive - Scott Calvet, VMware vCenter 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive - Scott Calvet, VMware Excellent vCenter 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive - Scott Calvet, VMware Good vCenter 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive - Scott Calvet, VMware Fair vCenter 5.1 - Technical Deep Dive - Scott Calvet, VMware Poor Question Title * 7. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #4 (2:30 pm-3:15 pm): Excellent Good Fair Poor Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Excellent Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Good Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Fair Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Poor How to Use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud - David Iannacconi and Sal Bruno, VMware How to Use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud - David Iannacconi and Sal Bruno, VMware Excellent How to Use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud - David Iannacconi and Sal Bruno, VMware Good How to Use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud - David Iannacconi and Sal Bruno, VMware Fair How to Use vCloud Hybrid Service to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud - David Iannacconi and Sal Bruno, VMware Poor Tales From the Field: Don’t Let this Happen to Your VMs - Ari Saperstein, Veeam Tales From the Field: Don’t Let this Happen to Your VMs - Ari Saperstein, Veeam Excellent Tales From the Field: Don’t Let this Happen to Your VMs - Ari Saperstein, Veeam Good Tales From the Field: Don’t Let this Happen to Your VMs - Ari Saperstein, Veeam Fair Tales From the Field: Don’t Let this Happen to Your VMs - Ari Saperstein, Veeam Poor Network Virtualization - The Future of Networking - Steven DiRienzo, VMware Network Virtualization - The Future of Networking - Steven DiRienzo, VMware Excellent Network Virtualization - The Future of Networking - Steven DiRienzo, VMware Good Network Virtualization - The Future of Networking - Steven DiRienzo, VMware Fair Network Virtualization - The Future of Networking - Steven DiRienzo, VMware Poor Question Title * 8. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #5 (3:30 pm-4:15 pm): Excellent Good Fair Poor The 4 A's of Data Center Security - Automate, Accelerate, Accountability, and APT's - Trend Micro The 4 A's of Data Center Security - Automate, Accelerate, Accountability, and APT's - Trend Micro Excellent The 4 A's of Data Center Security - Automate, Accelerate, Accountability, and APT's - Trend Micro Good The 4 A's of Data Center Security - Automate, Accelerate, Accountability, and APT's - Trend Micro Fair The 4 A's of Data Center Security - Automate, Accelerate, Accountability, and APT's - Trend Micro Poor Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Excellent Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Good Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Fair Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Aleks Saul, VMware Poor vCenter Operations Management Suite- TechXtend vCenter Operations Management Suite- TechXtend Excellent vCenter Operations Management Suite- TechXtend Good vCenter Operations Management Suite- TechXtend Fair vCenter Operations Management Suite- TechXtend Poor Question Title * 9. Which of the following topics would you like to see at future VMUG events (please check all that apply). VMware vSphere vCloud Suite vCloud Automation Center vCloud Networking & Security vSphere Storage Appliance VMware Go Pro vCenter Operations Management Suite vCenter Configuration Manager vCenter Site Recovery Manager vCenter Protect Standard vFabric Application Director VMware View VMware Mirage ThinApp Horizon Application Manager Horizon Mobile Other (please specify) Question Title * 10. Which of the following topics are important to your organization's business and IT initiatives? Software-Defined Datacenter Security & Compliance Management Cloud Computing Private Cloud Public/Hybrid Cloud Business Process Desktop Mobile Secure Desktop Disaster Recovery Server Consolidation Business Continuity Virtualization & Cloud Other Other (please specify) Question Title * 11. Please rate the value of this event relative to your professional challenges: Highly Relevant Relevant Somewhat Relevant Not Very Relevant Question Title * 12. Would you recommend this event to colleagues that use VMware? Yes No If no, why? Question Title * 13. Do you plan to join us for future VMUG events? Yes No If no, why? Question Title * 14. Did you find the mobile app useful? Yes No Didn't Use It Question Title * 15. What was the MOST valuable aspect of the event? Technical Sessions Peer Networking Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays VMware Sessions New Product Information Mobile App Other Other (please specify) Question Title * 16. What was the LEAST valuable aspect of the event? Technical Sessions Peer Networking Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays VMware Sessions New Product Information Mobile App Other None Other (please specify) Question Title * 17. What could VMUG do to improve these events in the future? Question Title * 18. Do you feel this User Conference provided a good networking opportunity? Yes No If no, how can we improve? Question Title * 19. Are you interested in VMUG volunteer opportunities? Yes No If yes, please provide your name, company title and email. Thank you for your input, feedback is vital in the review process and is important so that we can continue to improve VMUG User Conferences! Please email memberservices@vmug.com for questions. Done