Monthly Archives: February 2010

Partner Exchange Day 5 – Thursday (The Final Day)

The final day of Partner Exchange started off with a final breakfast with a bunch of the attendees, some I met this week and some I have known in the past.  It was a fun time and I appreciate David Davis helping to arrange it. The sessions I attended were merely okay.  The two most interesting had …

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Partner Exchange Day 4 – Wednesday (Conference Day 2)

Today I started with a meeting with LiquidWare Labs.  It was a great conversation and hopefully the  beginning of a great partnership.  This unfortunately prevented me from attending the Steve Herrod keynote, which I have always looked forward to.  Based on what I’ve heard about his presentation it went as well as his previous keynotes. After lunch I attended …

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Partner Exchange Day 3 – Tuesday (The Conference Officially Begins)

Today is the day that the conference officially began (yes, on my third day of being at the conference).  I started with the keynote by Carl Eschenbach.  Here are a few of the noteworthy topics that were covered: VMware chose to have their global sales kickoff at Partner Exchange, because they consider the partner community to be a …

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Partner Exchange Day 2 – Monday (PTAB Day 2)

Day 2 of PTAB was based mostly around Desktop virtualization.     Though ThinApp is an awesome product, I have always thought that the application virtualization piece could use some work, especially packaging and deployment.  We discussed some cool new ways of dealing with ThinApp that cover both of those gaps.  It is now clear to me that …

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Partner Exchange Day 1 – Sunday (PTAB Day 1)

VMware’s Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB) is an invite-only group of the top VMware partners (<2% of North American partners represented, but almost 50% of North America VMware partner revenue) that convene around VMWorld and PartnerExchange to discuss current and future VMware products.  It’s been a true honor to be able to sit on this board since PartnerExchange 2009.  Obviously …

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