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VMworld 2014 San Francisco: Final Day
VMWORLD 2014 SAN FRANCISCO: FINAL DAY VMworld does something special for the Press and Bloggers, it reserves several tables near the front of the auditorium with power cords and a special WiFi feed. This makes it easy to take lousy low light photos from one’s iPhone. Having written on Day 1 and Day 2 of VMworld, on the last day we learned that attendees had attended 9,300 labs. And they raised $248,460 through Destination GiveBack. The last day is usually reserved for innovations, last year’s was about robots and 3D printing. This time: People Plus Machines. Jane McGonigal, Super Better…
Read MoreVMworld 2014 San Francisco: Day 2, The Details
VMWORLD 2014 SAN FRANCISCO: DAY 2 Following on the announcements of Day 1, three VMware executives filled in the details. <img src=”https://billpetro.com/wp-content/uploads/BenFathi2.jpg” alt=”Ben Fathi” width=”134″ height=”134″ align=”left” style=”padding-right: 10px; />Ben Fathi, VMware Chief Technology Officer Ben started the morning with Destination Giveback, a charitable effort that involves flying paper airplanes as a part of the donation. No ice involved. Recapped the previous day’s comment: The Brave Will Thrive. EVO and EVO:RAIL, the OpenStack distribution, the renaming of vCloud Hybrid Services to vCloud Air, the renaming of vCAC and vCOPs to vCloud vRealize. In contrast to the World of Silos Ben…
Read MoreVMworld 2014 San Francisco: Day 1, The Announcements
VMWORLD 2014: DAY 1, THE ANNOUNCEMENTS The largest cloud show of its kind, VMworld 2014 opened with the General Session in Moscone Center in San Francisco. 22,000 attendees from 85 countries are here. The show actually opened 2 days previously, but everyone who is going to be here is at this event. Partner Day and TAM Day were earlier and last night was the welcoming buffet in the Solutions Exchange. I’ll be at the Solutions Exchange later this week demoing in the Cisco booth Platform as a Service and Cloud Management. No Limits is the theme this year. <img src=”https://www.billpetro.com/wp-content/uploads/PatGelsinger2.jpg” alt=”Pat…
Read MoreVMworld 2013 San Francisco: Day 4, Makers and Shakers
VMWORLD 2013 SAN FRANCISCO: DAY 4 MAKERS AND SHAKERS For the popular Innovator’s Day at the end of the VMworld Conference… Jay Silver, Founder and Director Joylabz, and Maker Research Scientist at Intel Labs. Jay went to Ken Burns’ place in Massachusetts and went on a nature awareness walk. He had a guide, but Jay didn’t see anything new… so he went to downtown Boston and did some urban discovery. Another student licked his finger and stuck it in the air all around the area… and noted wind patterns that led to a vortex at the center. “If we can…
Read MoreVMworld 2013 San Francisco: Day 3, the Gadgets
VMWORLD 2013 SAN FRANCISCO: DAY 3, THE GADGETS During this week amongst 22,500 geeks it was noticeable how many devices I saw, especially mobile devices. Here’s the quick breakdown… Cell phones: iPhones by a vast majority, mostly iPhone 5s. Androids as the largest minority, mostly Samsung Galaxy 3 and 4. Tablets: iPads by a vast majority, with some iPad minis. Androids in the minority, including the smaller Nexus 7 size. Laptops: MacBooks were a surprisingly significant fraction PCs of all flavors Ultra thin laptops running Android or Windows 8, including the Microsoft Surface, were more prevalent than in the general…
Read MoreVMworld 2013 San Francisco: Day 2
VMWORLD 2013 SAN FRANCISCO: DAY 2 In Day 2, the focused moved to details of the big announcements from Day 1, including NSX, vSAN, and a bit on automation. Carl Eschenbach, President and COO, VMware Carl started with the observation of “More attendees than expected this year, 22,500 attendees rounded up to 23K, making this the largest IT Infrastructure event of the year”. Wikipedia reports that the 2009 Oracle OpenWorld had 37,000 attendees, but let’s not quibble. He recapped yesterday’s announcements: vSphere 5.5 & vCloud Suite 5.5, NSX Network Virtualization, and vCloud Hybrid Services, Cloud Foundry on vSphere — through partnership…
Read MoreVMworld 2011: Steve Herrod’s CTO Keynote
VMWORLD 2011: STEVE HERROD’S CTO KEYNOTE Dr. Steve Herrod has been called the James Bond of VMware, and he is indeed a confident and compelling speaker. He has an obvious brilliance and an easy style occasionally punctuated by humor. For his keynote he said he was going to do it with Post It notes and a Whiteboard. Of course, this was all on the big screen. He started by pointing out that we’re moving from: Servers -> Services Devices -> People Or… Another way of putting this is: Devices Universal Access High Expectations …or more susinctly: DUH. "We can Simplify…
Read MoreVMworld 2011: Paul Maritz’ CEO Keynote
VMWORLD 2011: PAUL MARITZ’ CEO Factoids During Paul Maritz’ keynote presentation, when he explained that we’re at a tipping point, he gave us the following statistics: 1 new VM every 6 seconds 20 million VMs worldwide on vSphere A VMotion occurs every 5.5 seconds > 800,000 vSphere Admins, in 146 countries 68,000 VMware Certified Professionals > 1,650 ISV Partners > 3,000 apps In announcing the new vSphere 5.0 he said it had: > 1 million engineering hours > 2 million QA hours 200 new features, including storage tiering, virtual storage appliances and auto host provisioning The largest VM ever, the…
Read MoreVMworld 2011: Day 1
VMWORLD 2011: Day 1 Three days of breakouts, super sessions, keynotes, meetups, tweet-ups, solution exposition, and parties. A victim of its own success I’ve been attending VMworld since 2004, when they were acquired by EMC. Now, VMworld has grown to have almost 20,000 attendees, 6,700 of which are Partners. It has outgrown a single venue in Las Vegas, and is spread across the Venetian and Winn hotels as well as the adjoining Sands Expo and Conference Center. Next year it will be back at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Can you imagine a venue with 20,000 attendees each carrying…
Read MoreVMworld 2011: Las Vegas
VMWORLD 2011: LAS VEGAS This year’s event kicks off in the Venetian in Las Vegas. Is it like Venice in Italy? Yes, but somewhat more hermetic. The venue is huge and more extensive than in years past with expanded conference facilities and enlarged Hang Space and the Blogger’s Lounge. Initial registration featured about 45 minutes in line though the check-in process was efficient — there are that many people here. And for those standing in line VMware employees were supplying beverages. I look forward to seeing old friends, making new ones and reporting the latest trends from the breakouts, keynotes…
Read MoreVMworld 2010: Partner Super Session
VMWORLD 2010 PARTNER SUPER SESSION Each year, the Partners of VMware are treated to a sneak peak at some of the announcements coming this week. Below I will not share anything that hasn’t already been since announced or is not already publicly available. First speaker was: Carl Eschenbach, EVP VMware He spoke on the theme of this years show: Cloud computing is real, but you have to go down virtual roads. 1) Industry is changing 2) Transform 3) Leverage Year in review: – Launched new products. VMware vSphere 4.1 – Updated Systems and Tools – Partner University 2.0 in 9…
Read MoreVMworld 2010: Day 1 – Virtual Roads. Actual Clouds
VMworld 2010: Day 1 – Virtual Roads. Actual Clouds Although the opening reception was not until 4 pm, the excitement was already building here at Moscone Center in San Francisco at 8 am. There were hundreds in line at that time, though it was pretty efficient: step up to a computer, type in your first and last name, step over to pick up your badge, then down the hall for The “Swag Loading Zone” and bag collection. As in years before, VMworld is very “social media friendly,” and there is a “Social Media & Blogger Lounge.” My old friend from…
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