VMworld 2010

August 29, 2010

This is where I’ll be putting my notes from VMworld 2010 and related Silicon Valley adventures. The basic schedule I’ll try to follow is below. Primarily, I’m here for business but I will have some geek style fun along the way too. A big highlight will be interacting with the startups at VMworld this year. More notes will appear below as I am able to capture and refine my thoughts. :) Also, if you got to this page you probably have my card. Let’s stay in touch!

Summary:

Coming soon…

Trends
- UI vs. scripting
- Articulation vs. Buzzwords
- Partner emphasis vs. Solo
Good
- Lots and lots of Social Media Contributors
- TBD
Bad
- TBD
- TBD
Ugly
- WingateWeb’s schedule maker
- TBD

Details:

Day 1 – Monday, August 30

Partner Growth

Transitioning to ESXi, Architecture for Next Generation vSphere

Partner Meetings

Client Meetings

Welcome Reception – booths that stood out

rPath (solid demo)
BLADE (good story)
Pancetera (good story)
BlueStripe (good story)

TBD

Day 2 – Tuesday, August 31

Scaling Data Center Fabrics with Secure Cloud Services

Public Cloud Computing Gets Real: Announcing New Enterprise-Class Service that Delivers on the Promise of Cloud Computing

I’M ON A BOAT - zozi Sailing Showdown with 500Startups and Startup2Startup: Sailing, Tacos, and Beer Tasting

Client Meetings

Splunk with Twilio for API Open Mic

TBD

Day 3 – Wednesday, September 1

Highlights: During the interview with Heineken, metrics shared around improvements in efficiency, performance, and management of data center operations will not lower the price of beer — but shareholders will likely have more beer money as a result. Yet, during the discussions around performance oriented business analytics the panel was not able to answer that specific question. So, again we see that there may not be a flattening in all areas of business IT. The use of Compellent was an obvious portion of the discussions but it was difficult to pin down a correlation that was direct but there were references to “hero” reports but the impact was in terms of storage purchasing and effective use (green pickup by powering down). With VMware it is possible to IT customers to clone, create, and test quickly vs. going through the previous (traditional) processes associated with responding to such a requirement. The maturity of specific tiers of storage buckets was highlighted in that high performance (SSD) tiers are for HPC applications and then there is “other” that moves to SATA. The way this was discovered through analysis of server load. The leading question was to draw out a “do you want something that decides for you” but it appears that scenario might not have translated.

(took a break for this company called Apple doing something)

Building a Secure Private Cloud Today

Virtualization Transitions: The Journey to Enterprise Cloud Computing

How Cisco, EMC and VMware Are Changing the IT Landscape with Vblock Converged Infrastructure

The Last Mile: Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

Client Meetings

TBD