VMworld Europe 2010 – Day 1

Posted: October 12th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Travel, Virtualization | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

I’m sitting at the blogger lounge right now with a couple of fellow tweeps: @h0bbel, @BasRaayman, @vladan, @maishsk and @VMDoug, with special thanks to Bas from which I borrowed the Macbook charger :-)

First day at the VMworld Europe has been exciting so far, the networking options are really incredible, and I had the possibility to meet many fellow tweeps in person.

This morning at the keynote we saw some interesting demos, I really appreciated the Project Horizon demo, coupled with the iPad View client interaction which looks really stunning, also in a “eat your own dogfood” fashion the VMworld labs are running on a real hybrid cloud with farms located in Miami, FL (provided by Terremark) in Ashburn, VA (provided by Verizon) and locally here in Copenhagen (provided by Colt / VMware).

Back to Project Horizon (its name is now vCloud Request Manager), interestingly it seems that all the new products coming from VMware are converging to a more service-oriented architecture, also they’re moving from the old client/server model for their management products, we saw a quick demo of “Alive” which is a software made by Integrien which was acquired recently by VMware and it’s probably going to be the foundation for the next generation VMware management platform (think of it as a next generation vCenter).

So it’s everything for now, I’ll try to update this post this evening as I got back to my loculus*..Ahem..*Hotel Room :-)

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