Monday, August 30, 2010

VMworld 2010 - Day One

After arriving last night, I was raring to go this morning. Up early (4:00AM PDT)... Waiting for someplace to open so I can eat breakfast... Find a Denny's and around 7:00AM head down to the Moscone Center to register and am struck with the enormity of this conference. VMware has decided to make a statement.... They have taken over every cardinal point of the compass in the Moscone Center. The image is of only the West Moscone Center Building. As far as I could see, North and South buildings were equaly adorned. The guys really planned an intense convention... If it deals with VMware, it is here. There are sessions on every aspect of current and near term projected VM products. The Hands-On Lab is state of the art (VM art -that is)- Both Basic an Advanced subjects are covered. The discussions, at least the ones I attended were informative, interactive, and at times intense-I loved it. I estimate that there are over 320 breakout sessions and workshops being attended by approximately 16,000 attendees. The planners are quite socially oriented and are "eating" their own dog food". They have set up stations where we can use Thin-Client machines to access apps in their "private-cloud" and have created mobile apps proving that VMware is aiming to design for user personal computing and not just for the personal computer. Tonight's the welcome reception and gracefully, the first session is not until 0930 tomorrow. I'm looking forward to the Keynote.













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