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Hi everyone, well it has been a very busy week but unfortunately I did not get more opportunity to work on my vCAC and ITBM project. I was really hoping to do that but I suppose after all of my progress that is what happens. We had our 4th VMware Virtual Cloud Day in our region which was as usual an excellent event which was enjoyed by so many of our awesome customers. I have been kept busy with a number of project and upgrades at customers but also presenting on the VMware strategy and Software Defined Data Centre. I was lucky enough to be asked to present to a number of customers early in the week at a dinner which I attended on behalf of VMware and I think from the conversations afterwards that the presentation and VMware’s strategy in this are in general is being very well accepted. I would like to point you to our main page on this if you would like to read more about it: http://www.vmware.com/software-defined-datacenter.
Have a superb week and I look forward to speaking to you again next week and hopefully giving you some further info on my Lab and it’s progress.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Senior Technical Account Manager
VMware Australia
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