Jonathan Eunice of analyst firm Illuminata: VMworld is Virtualization
Last year, a colleague visiting the VMworld conference opined that while the gathering was a very energetic meeting place for x86 virtualization, it’s a shame that there isn’t a systematic industry event for virtualization in general. VMware president Diane Greene, in her inimitable way, rapidly disagreed. ‘There is, and VMworld is it!’
While identifying all things virtualization with VMware is still a bit self-aggrandizing, Diane’s argument plays increasingly well. After three years of successive doubling, there are about 7,000 in attendance. By way of comparison, that’s approximately 50% more folks than attend the EMCworld event run by VMware’s corporate parent. …
Essentially everyone is here. … [W]ho else really has established such a strong user community and
partner ecosystem around virtualization? Who else generates this level
of enthusiasm and this level of active change to “the way things are
done?” That would be no one.
