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Going to CloudCamp London?

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In exactly 10 days, on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 from 18h30 to 20h00, the second edition of CloudCamp will take place at The Crypt, Clerkenwell Green, London. The first CloudCamp unconference took place in San Francisco on 25 June 2008 and was attended by over 300 cloud computing enthusiasts, practitioners and visionaries. 200 plus are expected to attend the London event, which is being organised to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing.

CloudCamp London will follow the popular “Open Space” format, encouraging an open exchange between presenters and participants. Attendees may propose and lead sessions on any area of interest to them. In addition, CloudCamp will feature “Lightning Talks” in which presenters expound on topics of interest in dense ten minute bolts. Following the camp, “CloudBash” a networking opportunity with drinks and pizza, compliments of our generous sponsors!

CloudCamp London corporate sponsors include CohesiveFT, FlexiScale, Excelian, GigaSpaces, Skills Matter, Amazon, Enomaly and Google.

Unfortunately, Virtualization.com will not make it to this event, but if you’re covering it in words, pictures or video, be sure to let us know!

Introducing The Virtualization.com Job Board

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Just a quick announcement to let you know the Virtualization.com Job Board is now up and running. For only $160, you can post a job offer which will be published on the board for 30 days. This offer provides you with the best possible return on your recruitment investment by targetting your open positions to the core audience instead of trying to hit a fly with a cannon.

Virtualization.com reaches thousands of professionals from the virtualization industry on a daily basis, from developers, engineers, system administrators, security officers and programmers to product, marketing & general management. Stop searching for the right candidates to fill your virtualization positions and start finding them!

Every two weeks, we’ll post published job offers in an article under the category ‘Jobs’, which will also be sent out to our e-mail newsletter subscribers. The 5 latest jobs will also be featured in the homepage sidebar.

For job seekers, the job board features a handy way of filtering outstanding job offers by occupation (consulting, development, marketing, etc.) and type (full-time, part-time, internship, etc.). Should there be no results for your query, the application will show jobs from other recruitment websites and portals, if available. The job board comes with a dedicated RSS feed you can subscribe to in your favorite feed reader.

The job board is powered by Job-A-Matic, a SimplyHired service.

Get A 10% Discount For Structure 08, And Start Putting Cloud Computing To Work

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In about 3 weeks, one of the world’s most popular tech blogs, GigaOm, is hosting what is likely to become one of the must-attend events in the storage, hosting, cloud computing and virtualization industry for this year.

The conference is dubbed Structure 08, and features a slew of kick-ass speakers like Werner Vogels (VP & CTO Amazon), James Crowe (President and CEO Level 3), Mendel Rosemblum (Co-founder VMware), Albert Esser (VP, Data Center Infrastructure, Dell), Greg Papadopulous (CTO, Sun Microsystems and many others.

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The event takes place on June 25 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

Tickets are selling out quickly, so sign up fast! As one of Structure 08’s media partners, we can offer our readers a 10 % discount on the registration fee. Simply click the event logo above and the discount will automatically calculated.

We’ll attend the event ourselves, so expect lots of reports and video interviews!

If you’ll be there too, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to hook up.

VMworld Europe 2009, Feb 24-26 in Cannes, Opens Pre-registration

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Richard Garsthagen, Senior Evangelist for VMware in EMEA (see the interview we did with him at the last VMworld Europe), has announced in a blog post that VMworld Europe 2009 will again be held in Palais de Festivals in Cannes (the same pace of where the film festival is) from Feb 24 till 26.

The pre-registration page has already been opened up, in case you’re interested in enrolling quickly and getting regular updates about upcoming announcements.

Microsoft Publishes Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

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Microsoft has published a new 18-pages guide to setup virtual machines fail-over between two Hyper-V (now in Release Candidate 1) virtualization hosts. The step-by-step guide shows you “how to make a virtual machine highly availableby creating a simple two-node cluster and a virtual machine, and then failing over the virtual machine from one node to the other”.

You can download the 216 kb file here.

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[Source: Techlog]

Event: VMworld 2008 Opens Up Registration

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Last Friday, VMware has officially opened up the registration process for the fifth edition of its annual VMworld conference. VMworld 2008 will be held September 15-18 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. If you’re still interested in submitting a paper for one of the sessions at the conference, you’d better be quick: the call for papers deadline ends next Friday.

[Source: VMware Blogs]