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VMworld Buzz: Day 3

Oct 20, 2011

VMworld Day 3 started a little later than the previous days to give all attendees a little more time in bed to recover from the VMworld party last night. The day started with the General Session with VMware CEO Paul Maritz which promised an inside look at at the forces shaping Cloud Computing and the next generation of IT. I met up with some London VMware User Group for a more relaxed breakfast...

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VMworld Buzz: Day 2 General Session - Raghu Raghuram

Oct 19, 2011

This wasn’t a technical session like yesterday’s keynote so no cool demos of new products. This premise of the keynote was taking about the Software Only Datacenter. Lots of talk about how over time CPUs are getting faster, VM resource requirements are getting bigger, graphs showing more and more…OK so nothing we don’t know. The talk then went onto the VMware _“how we see the future and we will...

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VMworld Buzz: Day 2

Oct 19, 2011

I decided to go for the ThinApp related lab HOL23 – Solving Application Management Challenges with Application Virtualisation as it’s not something I’ve really worked with before. ThinApp is still virtualisation but at the application level rather than at the infrastructure level where you can package up an application and launch it from an .exe file without having to do a full install so makes...

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VMworld Buzz: vVolumes, VMware's game changer for storage

Oct 19, 2011

I attended session VSP3205 — Technology Preview: VMware vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data – Satyam Vaghani, Vijay Ramachandran which was rumoured to be all about what’s coming up for storage. This certainly didn’t disappoint and turned out to be one of the coolest new technologies VMware is working on with its storage partners. Very strange that it wasn’t even mentioned in the...

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VMworld Buzz: Day 1 General Session Keynote with Steve Herrod.

Oct 18, 2011

Today’s General Session is where the VMware CTO, Steve Herrod did the keynote all based around the theme of the conference, It’s your cloud, own it. One of his quotes was _“The cloud is here, the cloud is changing IT and this is due to you”._ I felt it was a bit strange not to kick off the conference with this keynote and only have it in the afternoon. There are 7100 people at VMworld Europe up...

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VMworld Buzz: Day 1

Oct 18, 2011

VMworld kicked off today in earnest with about 6500 expected attendees. My day kicked off trying the local cuisine. A Danish pastry for breakfast in…Denmark…perfect! The morning’s major announcement was all about Management with VMware announcing ( I then attended VSP3067 — Mythbusters Goes Virtual – Eric Sloof and Mattias Sundling. This was a great session with a few very simple yet very impor...

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VMworld Buzz: VMware announces vCenter Operations Management Suite

Oct 18, 2011

VMware’s major announcement at VMworld is billed as “The Biggest VMware Management Launch Ever”. What that means is VMware has announced its new version of ( which it is now calling vCenter Operations Management Suite and will be released later this year or early 2012. vCOPS as it’s called is the technology VMware bought from Integrien in August 2010. []( vCOPS is used as a performance manageme...

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VMworld Buzz: Day 0

Oct 17, 2011

VMworld Europe kicked off today in Copenhagen with Partner Day which is where VMware’s partners get to hear their special dose of VMworld info which is more tailored to helping partners sell and deploy VMware solutions. I arrived early afternoon and after a quick look around decided to get stuck into the Hands on Labs. The labs set up is pretty good, you get your badge scanned and go into a queue...

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My VMworld schedule & what you shouldn't miss

Oct 12, 2011

I've been working on my VMWorld Europe schedule which is a lesson in compromise begging for more hours in a day! There are just far too many sessions which I would like to attend but I need to also take in the following: Labs Its not just the sessions that are important but I want to have enough time to do some of the hands-on-labs as getting down and dirty with a product is probably the best w...

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Can you afford not going to VMworld Europe?

Oct 6, 2011

( is just under two weeks away and there's still time to ( if you haven't already done so. VMworld is one of, if not the best technology conferences in the world. Yes, there has already been a huge one in Las Vegas this year but if you weren't able to attend, there's still time to register for Copenhagen. If you think you've already "done" VMworld because you watched the interviews, read the b...

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