VMWorld 2009 has lived up to it’s predecessors. The food was seriously lacking at meals and at the party. The logistics in the hallways, however, were far better than they were two years ago at Moscone. The Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB) was definitely one of the highlights of the conference for me. The PTAB is made up …
Category Archives: Conference
VMWorld 2009 Day 5: Thursday
The last day of VMWorld started out a bit later due to a lack of a general session keynote. This was a nice break after the VMWorld Party. I started off with a quick bite to eat and then sat down to study for my VCP test until my vExpert booth duty. After booth duty, I cruised the …
VMWorld 2009 Day 4: Wednesday
Steve Herrod started off the keynote today discussing VDI, including the announcement of an agreement to embed RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles into View. Their goal is to provide end users the same rich experience no matter the situation (WAN, LAN or offline mobile). Like any good Herrod keynote, live demos ensued, including PCOIP and the Wyse iPhone View Client. The …
VMWorld 2009 Day 3: Tuesday
Tod Nielsen, COO spoke first at the keynote this morning. He started off joking about the slowness of the Labs yesterday. He blamed it on an unset blinking clock (anyone know how to program a VCR?). Went over like a lead balloon. He finished by introducing a typical customer testimonial video. Paul Maritz, CEO, came up next on stage and …
VMWorld 2009 Day 2: Monday
Day two of PTAB started off with yet another hot topic: security. We got some good insight into vmSafe and products that are being developed. Discussed pros and cons for both large and SMB customers with some really interesting insights. Funny moment of the conversation: Scott Lowe channeling Edward Haletky. The conversation heated up even more as we …
VMWorld Day 1: Sunday
Had my second Partner Technology Advisory Board (PTAB) meeting all day today. Great conversation around vCloud: what does it mean, do customers care, how to make it work for customers, where does it fit. Very lively discussion and great input provided to VMware. Next up is VM availability discussion, including FT, HA and SRM. Could VMware completely remove MSCS from …
Partner Exchange Days 4 & 5: Wrap-up
Embarrassingly late, but here’s my final update from VMware’s Partner Exchange 2009 The last full day started with Steve Herrod’s keynote, where he went over some of the details of vSphere, including the packages and pricing. If you like choices you’ll have plenty of them real soon. Unfortunately most of the information wasn’t terribly new, but Dr. Herrod always …
Partner Exchange Day 3: The vSphere Experience
Yesterday’s keynote started with Carl Eschenbach, VMware’s VP for Global Sales, who presented a series of improvements to the Partner Program. Being a recent addition to the Partner community, I have felt some of the pains with the online access to Partner information, but have had little introduction to the program itself. I have to admit to being very …
Partner Exchange Day 2: The Conference Begins
Day two started off with the typical keynotes, this time featuring VMware COO Tod Nielsen and Intel General Manager for Server Platforms Boyd Davis. Mr. Nielsen gave a great presentation showing the partner perspective of the typical VMware keynote talking points, which included a lot of market facts. Mr. Davis discussed Intel’s contributions to VMware’s …
Partner Exchange Day 1: PTAB
Yesterday was the first day of VMware Partner Exchange, and was lucking enough to be invited to join in on the Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB). Obviously I can’t go into too much detail, but I can tell you that there were about 30 or so of us in a room together for about 13 hours straight. I left with …