VMworld Europe 2008

Tuesday’s keynote served three ways

Diane Greene kicked off VMworld Europe 2008 with this morning’s keynote. Highlights included

  • ESX Server 3i will be shipping on a host of OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM (press release)
  • New desktop virtualization technology, including scalable virtual image technology, offline virtual desktop infrastructure, and application virtualization technology (aka Project Northstar aka Thinstall) (press release)
  • New record of 16,000 Exchange mailboxes on a single server using virtualization (blog, press release)

Here are three ways to get the scoop on what happened:

  1. Best way to get updated in realtime: Lode Vermeiren’s Twitter feed
  2. Best way to scan quickly what happened from onsite notes: Alessandro Perilli’s liveblog at virtualization.info
  3. Best way to watch it if you weren’t there: VMworld Europe keynote webcast