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For those of you who missed last week’s eGroup Roundtable series, Live from VMworld, we have you covered. Feel free to download the audio playback by clicking the picture or <a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv">here</a>. For your convenience, we time stamped (minute and second) some of the more interesting discussions and insights from our thought leaders, Jason Webster, Ian Jones and John Flisher.

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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>4:50 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s most notable shifts in its messaging and positioning as it relates to application services, adoption of Hadoop, increased messaging around big data, and integration of application development into the rest of the VMware offering.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>8:15 –</strong> Ian explains big data and the challenges facing enterprises in understanding their data sets.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>12:20 –</strong> Ian highlights Project Serengeti and covers the history of Hadoop, the various flavors and how companies are using it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>15:50 –</strong> Big Data in 10 words or less!</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>18:05 –</strong> Ian shares his thoughts on VMworld 2012 and the week’s most exciting news and advancements around storage technologies.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>24:15 –</strong> John recaps the keynote and thunderous applause when it was announced vRAM entitlement would be removed, in fact, John thought he was at Woodstock there was such a wave of excitement.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>28:30 –</strong> John touches on vSphere 5.1 including vSphere enhanced vMotion and vSphere Replication.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>32:30 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s move into web based interfaces, tight integration with other plugins.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>34:10 –</strong> John updates on the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance and continues on the discussion around VMware’s unified client.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>38:00 –</strong> everything you wanted to know about vSphere Data Protection technology geared towards SMBs.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>41:00 –</strong> John elaborates on VMware’s end user computing strategies, the Wanova Mirage product and what was demoed at VMworld.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>50:00 –</strong> John and Ian drop some final thoughts and closing statements on VMworld 2012.</p>