Link: Marc Farley on Technology: Where’s the juice? VMWorld.
VMWorld is a total buzz-o-rama, and I mean that in a very positive sense. This show has gathered many of the most wired people I have encountered in a long time. Now as a storage geek, I like storage shows and the other storage geeks that show up at storage shows, but I have to say that VMWorld is more amped up than any show I’ve been to for a long time – and almost everybody I met there that I knew said the same thing.
Our booth was gonzo. People were packed in. Some were customers coming buy to give a little love, some were Fibre Channel skeptics with "prove it" agendas, some were newbie customers with dig deeper questions and some were wired VMWare attendees just trying to drink in as much as they could. Tech talk was down and dirty into virtualized structures, app and data moves, drivers and disaster recovery scenarios. T shirts were flying off shelves and out of cabinets. It was head spinning. I haven’t had a big adrenaline rush like this at a trade show – EVER. So props to the VMWare folks for making such an incredible product and building an amazing customer base.
[Update: moka5 is also having a good show.]
