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VUG Canada - Ottawa - Review


Chris.Childerhose
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We recently had our VUG Canada meetup in Ottawa, Ontario on April 8th.  While I was excited about the sign up list which had 24 people and mostly customers, the turnout was a little lower due to the unforeseen weather.  It had snowed this day and I know myself travel to Ottawa was not fun and it was expected that it would impact attendance.

Regardless the room had more people than our first in-person VUG which was great.  Pure sponsored the event and put on a presentation with Veeam (Chris McDonald).  It was extermely well received and sparked a good discussion amongst the attendees customer and vendor alike.

Below are some pictures of the event and I will be posting more when I receive them from Pure.  Hopefully we can get attendance up at the next one, but this was a great event regardless.

 

I also saw this bridge on my way home when I left so sitting at a red light snapped a picture.  You can see the snow too.

 

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coolsport00
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Congrats for what looks like a decent event, Chris! πŸ‘πŸ»


Tommy O'Shea
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  • April 10, 2025

Thank you Chris, as well as Veeam and Pure for putting on this event!


Chris.Childerhose
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coolsport00 wrote:

Congrats for what looks like a decent event, Chris! πŸ‘πŸ»

Thanks, Shane.  Yeah it was pretty decent this time around.

 
 
 

Chris.Childerhose
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Tommy O'Shea wrote:

Thank you Chris, as well as Veeam and Pure for putting on this event!

Hopefully the next one has even more in attendance. πŸ™ƒ


coolsport00
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Hope mine next month is better than either my 1st or 2nd last yr (4 ppl is all πŸ˜³πŸ˜• )


Chris.Childerhose
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coolsport00 wrote:

Hope mine next month is better than either my 1st or 2nd last yr (4 ppl is all πŸ˜³πŸ˜• )

Yeah our first one was 2 people.  So you had us beat. πŸ€£

This time there was 4 customers but should have been a lot more.


coolsport00
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Wowzers! Welp...we’ll see how it goes. We’re having ours at a T-Shotz golf range place next month. Hoping to have 10-15 πŸ™πŸ»  ...but not sure.


rickbyrne
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Thanks so much for putting this together, Chris!

A big shoutout to the Pure team for sponsoring! I enjoyed the presentations from Chris and Dan. They provided great insights and sparked some ideas on my end.

I'm looking forward to the next one. Despite the weather, it’s awesome to see the momentum building and more people showing up compared to the first in-person VUG. Keep up the great work!

Thank you again! 


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