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VMware Canary Challenge accepted! Help needed

09.24.2014 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

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I just found out about the Canary Challenge after seeing a tweet from a from a fellow VMware colleague Ray Blanchard. The Canary Challenge takes place this Saturday in Palo Alto and it to raise money for the Canary Center at Stanford to help fund early cancer detection research. I think this is another awesome cause and so I have decided to sign up for the 75mile ride (depending on how I feel, may consider the 100mile option).

Some might say I am crazy to sign up for another event, especially after just recently completing the Waves to Wine century ride for the National MS Society. I figured I could carry my training over to this event and I could also help support a local cause in my own Silicon Valley backyard. I also found out that the VMware team for this event (one of the reasons I am joining) is currently the #1 corporate fundraiser, in addition our very own VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is among the top funderaiser which is just awesome to hear! Each attendee must raise a minimum of $400 and I literally have less than 4 days left to reach that goal, but I am also hoping I can raise a bit more. This is where I need your help, once again. If you would like to support me, the VMware team and most importantly, the Canary Center at Stanford, please consider donating!

If you wish to donate towards my ride, please click here for more details. Please share this with your co-workers, friends and family! For VMware employees who donate, do not forget to get it matched by the VMware Foundation!

My good VMware buddies Todd Valentine from Office of CTO and Uday Medietty from our Core API team will also be riding. Feel free to also support them as well!

Thank you for your considerations!

Categories // Charity, Cycling Tags // canary challenge, cycling, road bike

A gift for my Waves to Wine 2014 Supporters!

09.22.2014 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

This weekend I took part in the Waves to Wine 2014 ride for the National MS Society. I took the century option (104 miles) starting from Cow Palace in San Francisco and finished at Ronert Park in Sonoma County. Not only was this an amazing experience and a personal goal of mine to complete a century ride, but I was also able to ride for an awesome cause.

I ended up riding 109.1 miles in total due to slight detour that I took (luckily it was only a couple of miles). In addition to a couple of rest stops, I also had take an unexpected stop as my GoPro was vibrating so much, it broke off its connector while I was riding. Luckily, I was able to re-connect the GoPro directly to the bike mount instead of the intermediate adapter (whew). The ride took a total of 7hrs and 41minutes to complete, I think I probably could have finished it in 7.5hrs flat if it was not for the detour!

Lastly, I would like to say thank you to all my fellow VMware colleagues and Virtualization community members (listed below) for your support and donations. With your help, I was able to fund-raise a grand total of $6,206 for the National MS Society! As a small token of my appreciation, I have put together a short video highlighting my 7hr ride into a couple of minutes (make sure to watch the entire video :)) and I hope you enjoy it!

BikeMS: Waves To Wine 2014 from lamw on Vimeo.

Thank you very much to the following folks who donated:

Aaron Blasius
Balaji Parimi
Ben Lin
Bill Call
Chas Setchell
Chris Wolf
Coho Data
DataGravity
Dexter Arver
Dmitriy Sandler
Doug Baer
Duncan Epping
Ed Swindelles
El-Zein Family
Erik Bussink
Evan Bills
Frank Buechsel
Gary Blake
Greg Mulholland
Henry Robinson
Howard Marks
Irfan Ahmad
Jackie Rees
Jeff Hu
Jehad Affoneh
Jeremy Rickard
Joerg Lew
John W
Judy Snow
Kaushik Banerjee
Kris Inglis
Linda Jones
Mark Chuang
Matt Dreyer
Max Daneri
Michael Emery
Michael White
Mike Nisk
Minh Dao
Nambisan family
Noel Nguyen
Paul Meehan
Phillip Jordan
Platform9 Systems
Raj Yavatkar
Ravi Soundararajan
Robert Bosch
Ron Totah
Ronald Chenoweth
Skyera Inc.
Steve Kaplan
Susan Gudenkauf and Family
The Delgado Family
The Murray Family
Tina Walsworth
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Categories // Charity, Cycling Tags // cycling, road bike, wavestowine

VMware 2014 Cycling Kit (10 Days left to order)

04.07.2014 by William Lam // 3 Comments

I know a few of you were interested in the VMware 2013 Cycling Kit that I had purchased last year and have asked when the next kit would be available for purchase. Historically, this has been an internal community led project by Scott Jobe who volunteers his own time to run this program. Given the amount of interests outside of VMware, I thought I would ask Scott if it would be okay to share this externally for other fellow cycling and VMware enthusiasts.

Screen Shot 2014-04-07 at 7.59.42 AMIf you are potentially interested in making a purchase, the process is broken down into two steps as listed below. Please carefully read through the FAQ before submitting an order. I would also like to reiterate that there is only 10 days left on the order. I apologize for not being able to share this sooner. I am pretty excited for this years kit as it will be VMware's first white kit ever!

Step 1 - Follow link provided and place items in your cart (Do not try to pay for them at this time).  Don't forget to create an account.  See FAQ for more details.

Step 2 - Once we have Step 1 complete (due by April, 16) we will briefly close the order, perform some maintenance, then re-open it so that you can pay for your items.  The window for payments will be much shorter so please do this as quickly as you can after we notify you its time to pay.

You can find more details in the FAQ here VMware_Cycling_Apparel_FAQ_2014 and please make sure you read through it carefully before putting in your order.

Here is the link for the VMware 2014 Cycling Kit: https://www.lgpickpayride.com/VMware_2014_Clothing_Order

Categories // Cycling Tags // cycling, cycling kit, road bike, vmware

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William is Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform.

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