VMworld Monday grab-bag

I see how it’s going to be this year. Crazy.

Articles covering the VCD-OS announcement:

• Maureen O’Gara @ SYS-CON Media: VMware to Microsoft: Choke on My Dust. heh.
• Scott Ferguson @ eWeek:  VMware Adds Cloud, Desktop Infrastructure to its Virtualization Roadmap.
• Patrick Thibodeau @ ComputerWorld: VMware, virtualization rivals step into the ring at VMworld.
• Toon Vanagt @ virtualization.com vCloud: Vmware to be cloud computing provider too, but inside your private DC and not tomorrow. Toon makes a good point, but I don’t think it’s internal vs. external clouds, it’s
  more of an ‘and’ rather than an ‘or.’ You can both have a choice of
  external providers + your own data center, depending on needs, scale,
  SLAs, etc.
• James Niccolai @ PC World (and CIO.com) VMware Tries to Expand Throughout the Data Center. 

Blogs discussing it:

• Duncan Epping: VMware’s first announcements. » Yellow Bricks. (Big vision backed up by real hot features.)
• Scott Lowe
  • Link: VMware’s
    Virtual Datacenter OS (talking about the big picture)
  • Link: Follow
    Up on the VDC-OS Announcement (talking about individual features)
• Rich Brambley
• Chris Hoff: Link: Rational Survivability: VMWorld 2008: Forecast For VMware? Cloudy…Weep For Security?.
• Chuck Hollis (EMC):  Chuck’s Blog: Big Visions From VMware. Just read it. VDC-OS as an extension of where we are today in 2008 — not vapor. Concept of multiple clouds, including the "enterprise resource cloud."
• Scott Ossterreich (Cassatt): Fountainhead: An early analysis of VMware vCloud and VDC-OS
• James Urquardt: The Wisdom of Clouds: Let the Cloud Computing OS wars begin!.
• Mark Twomey sees a new world being exposed through vStorage APIs: Storagezilla: vStorage, PowerPath and a few random thoughts..

You Are There:

• Marnix Vambrout: My First set of random pictures of VMworld2008 Las Vegas
• Make sure you check out the VMworld.com discussions and photos
• dsiles on Twitpic
• delltechcenter on Twitpic

Also be sure to check out SearchServerVirtualization:  VMworld 2008 conference coverage.