Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edsai), our guests this week are Mark Twomey (@storagezilla), Greg Schulz from StorageIO (@StorageIO) and special guest, the recently unemployed Marc Farley (@3ParFarley)

This week we discuss...

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with our guests... Chris Harney, Founder of the New England VMUG (@csharney), Taya Wyss from The Enterprise Strategy Group (@TayaWyss) and Erin Banks, vSpecialist with EMC (@banksek).

This week we discuss...

• Recap of New England VMUG, the largest VMUG in the world with over 1,000 attendees live at Gillette Stadium
• Big topic among end-users: VDI / Virtual Desktop
• EMC's hands-on labs testing VAAI plugins
• The challenges and opportunities for women in tech
• How the New England VMUG has grown
• Taya's upcoming appearance on US television show "Say Yes to the Dress"
• Superbowl flashback with Duran Duran's Simon LeBon
• VMware Labs and demos in the cloud

• Ed and Greg figure out data plans in Europe
• Thai Massage Parlors in Soho
• Spotify vs. Pandora
• Fat Boy Slim's subliminal Apple Server message
• Diane Greene gets appointed to Google's board of directors
• Installing Kindle Fire Android ROMs
• Amazon becomes the crack dealer of cloud
• Another Silicon Valley web site covering startups
• Proliferation of storage startups

• We kick off StorageBeers with Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub
• Dell Storage Forum announcements with Darren "Darth" Thomas, Dell Storage VP & GM and Phil Soran, President, Dell Compellent
• The path to Object Storage
• VMware integration
• Competition
• Acquisition challenges 
• Andy Hardy, Managing Director, Dell Compellent International and Liem Nguyen, Director- Global Communications and Social Media, Dell Storage
• Andy's Party - First event in Europe
• Liem and Andy clebrating an Anniversary
• Chellenges in Europe
• Wrapping up with Gina Minks and Ed Saipetch