As I sit down to really dig into building labs for the upcoming Regional VMUG in Kansas City, I realize that I haven’t even mentioned it once on my blog. I guess it is close enough now that I can spill some beans as to what we have in store. Similar to what we did …
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VMWorld – Day 4: Something Amazing Just Happened
The last day of VMWorld 2010 started with a new kind of keynote. Instead of hearing from VMware’s senior management, we got to hear from three AMAZING innovation leaders in the user interface space. First to speak was Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. He gave one of …
VMWorld – Day 3: Sticking My Head in to the Clouds
Wednesday was still a day of recovery, but I did manage to do some deep diving into VMware’s vCloud Director through a couple of meeting with VMware folks. Much of the conversations were NDA, so I’m not going to cover them extensively. One item we did discuss was that the product is not necessarily aimed …
VMWorld – Day 2: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
Started Tuesday with the Maritz/Herrod keynote. I have to say that this was probably the best keynote I’ve seen at any of the VMWorlds. The message was relatively clear, they transitioned well from one topic to another and stuck with a common theme through all three speakers. It started with a short video “explaining” the concept …
VMWorld 2010 – Days 1 + 1: PTAB
As has been the case for the last two years, my first two days of this VMWorld were spent in the Partner Technical Advisory Board. This board is made up of the top engineers and architects of the top 1% of all VMware North America partners, but represent almost 50% of all the revenue brought …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …