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 …
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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 …
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
There probably isn’t much opportunity for people to play with vCenter Server Heartbeat given it’s steep entry price (~$12,000) is a bit out of range for most companies. I recently had the opportunity to play with it while creating an environment to demo for a customer, so I thought I’d share. vCenter Server Heartbeat is …
The Cloud Has Landed
Well, today was the big day that all of us with VMware NDAs plastered all over our cube walls have been waiting for: The official launch of VMware vSphere 4 (and the lifting of a heavy gag order). There has been much going on today between the regular line up of expected blog posts and …
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 …
Registered for Partner Exchange and PTAB
Just registered for my sessions at VMware’s Partner Exchange conference in April. This is kind of a mini-VMWorld for VMware partners…or so I assume, since I’ve never been to one. The main reason I’ll be going is so I can attend the invitation-only Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB). It’s an additional whole day of content before Partner Exchange. I’m excited …