There’s still a bit more to say about VMworld Europe 2008. How was the conference for you?
Remember that recordings of the VMworld Europe keynotes are still available, and check out VMworld.com where you’ll find the session presentation material soon.
Gabrie van Zanten thought it was better than our San Francisco conference. Link: Gabes Virtual World – VMworld 2008 – The day after.
Looking back at three days
VMworld I must say, this was better then ever. I’ve been to Paris in
2006, Nice and San Francisco in 2007, but Cannes has topped them all.
Great job VMware and Richard Garsthagen!!! It was very well organized:
coming from the airport we were directed to the buses by nice ladies
with big Vmworld signs. In Cannes itself registration went very fast
and without any problems. During the remainder of the event you would
almost trip over all the helpful personnel waiting to help you. Getting
lost was alsmost impossible.Not only the entourage was
good, the sessions were great to. The technical level was much better
then previous events. I spoke to Richard Garsthagen about this and he
told me that he instructed the speakers to use a max of 2 slides for
global introduction and dive into deep technical details as soon as
possible. Well, most of them managed to do so. My compliments, this is
were I came for and I’ve been hearing the same comments from other
VMworld visitors.
He also posted his session notes to his blog (see also other session notes).
- DV07 – Optimizing storage for virtual desktops
- DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks
- LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX
Two more podcasts from Virtual Strategy Magazine and David Marshall of VMblog and InfoWorld recap the conference (see also Day 1):
- VMworld Europe Report – Day 2 (Virtual Strategy Magazine)
- VMworld Europe 2008 keynote recap (InfoWorld Virtualization Report)
And if you have time check out the view on the virtualization industry from these four experts in this two-part video from virtualization.com. The panel includes Tarry Singh, moderator; Mike Laverick of RTFM Education, David Marshall of VMblog, and
Alex Pelster of AtosOrigin. Link: A Discussion With Four Virtualization Analysts (Video Interview).
Part 1 highlights:
10:00 discussion of Lab Manager, Lifecycle Manager, and Stage Manager positioning.
20:40 how C-level execs are approaching virtualization
Part 2 highlights:
1:45 “Virtualization is the most political product I’ve been involved with”
4:20 AtosOrigin’s Executive Briefing Center
6:20 An executive sees a blade center as too technical, but he
understands that if he pushes a button, the power goes off … and
nothing happens to his application.
6:50 Application owners still want a physical box they can touch…
8:00 …but the real question should be: Is your application running well? Are you users able to get in?
10:30- a look at the competitive landscape
13:00 “The hypervisor war is over. ESX has won, and other people are playing catch-up.”
[Although the discussion in this section is about the
commodification of the hypervisor, I think this statement refutes that
claim — the hypervisor is not a commodity in 2008, if for no other reason than this. -jmt]
