There have been so many announcements in the last 24 hours, we wanted to do a quick recap of links so that our readers can be sure they're up to date with all the latest product announcements, releases and updates.  

VMworld Day 1 Announcements

• Dell announced its first public cloud offering, based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services – one of the first providers authorized to provide VMware vCloud Datacenter Services for enterprise-class, secure, public, private and hybrid clouds.
• Harris Corporation announced their Trusted Enterprise cloud as a VMware vCloud Powered service offering for federal and enterprise customers based on best of breed technologies, including VMware vCloud Director.
• vcloud.vmware.com launched, an online destination to help customers to more easily extend their virtual datacenters to the hybrid cloud, by allowing them to find a vCloud service provider that meets their enterprise needs. 
• vCloud Global Connect was announced, an optional feature of the vCloud Datacenter service that will allow customers to use cloud services from multiple providers across geographies if they are a single, virtual cloud. Bluelock, SingTel and Softbank Telecom are expected to be the first providers to offer Global Connect services. 
• vFabric Data Director was launched, enabling DBaaS and taking a big step towards data as a service. 
• The public beta of vCloud Connector 1.5 was released, with a new point-to-point agent architecture for transfers that improves speed by using multiple parallel network connections  
• NetApp and VMware announced their new joint solution that enables organizations to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their own pace with flexibility and efficiency. 
• Four VMware service provider partners announced plans to introduce new cloud-based disaster recovery services built on vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5. FusionStorm, Hosting.com, iland and VeriStor are expected to be the first providers to offer these services. 

VMworld Day 2 Announcements (so far) 

• During Steve Herrod's keynote, new updates to VMware Horizon, to extend the benefits of its identity, policy and entitlement engine to virtualized Windows applications and connected mobile workspaces. 
• Herrod also announced VMware View 5, which will simplify IT manageability and control, while providing a high fidelity desktop virtualization experience. 
• A preview of VMware AppBlast was shared, which is a tool that can deliver applications of any sort, to any client that speaks HTML5. AppBlast is now available to check out in the VMworld Labs. 
• Project Octopus was another interesting project introduced during Steve Herrod's keynote, and is a tool that can provide a DropBox service for the enterprise. 
• Unified Service Broker was also alluded to during Herrod's keynote. You can read a little more about it, as well as all of the products mentioned during Steve Herrod's general session, on Scott Lowe's blog. 

More announcements are sure to come, so be sure to follow @vCloud and @VMwareSP and fan us on Facebook for to-the-minute updates!