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 …
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 …
vCenter Tomcat Collisions
I received the following message from a coworker of mine today (Todd Dresser), and thought it was well written and could be of great use to others: I had an issue where my web services would keep crashing thus creating a ton of dump files (30,000 x 8 KB files) and also a high CPU load. …
VMWorld 2009: Final Thoughts
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 …
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 3: VMware vCloud Initiative
VMware’s initial focus for releasing the vCloud Initiative is to assist customers to bridge the current datacenter to the future Cloud. 150,000 customers are already standardizing on VMware, which has definitely prepared them for the this evolution. VMware’s main focuses with their initiative are: Enterprise Ready, Choice and Application Compatibility. All this is rolled up into the …