I’ve seen many cool things this week and I’ve met a lot of cool people. But the VMworld Golden Gate Bridge Run was definitely the best thing ever. We had roughly 200 people who joined us and everyone had so much fun. The view was amazing, almost a clear blue sky. Five weeks ago I never expected that a single [...]

Every year a day before VMworld announcements start to appear online and of course it also happened this year. VMware just released the preview version of the VMware vCloud API. Source The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. The vCloud [...]

As a VMware employee I was not allowed to talk about this but Eric Sloof just posted it so I guess it’s okay for me to do so as well: VMworld 2010 August 30 – September 2 Moscone Center, San Francisc VMworld Europe 2010 October 11 – 14 Bella Centre, Copenhagen Via @vnagornyi #VMworld 2009 Conference Program Guide http://twurl.nl/2r6p8e Last [...]

I will be really busy the upcoming two weeks so I don’t know if and when I will be blogging. Tomorrow I will be flying to San Francisco. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I will be in VMware HQ – Palo Alto. Some of you reading this probably know why, VCDX Defense Panels. So if you’re scheduled for this week maybe [...]

We just opened up registrations for the VMworld Run The Golden Gate Bridge 2009 event! Several options have been discussed and basically they were pros and cons to every single time-slot/date we proposed and we decided to go with two categories and an evening event instead of an early event. We know that this time-slot is not optimal, but we [...]

Greg Lato, one of my VMware colleagues, announced an interesting project today. Greg is a, as he states on his photography website, self-taught photographer and loves photographing basically anything. As thousands of people will be attending VMworld Greg thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to do several portrait shoots. I think it’s a great initiative and anyone who [...]

A few weeks ago @jasonboche and myself discussed doing a daily run during VMworld. This single tweet evolved into something no one expected… “Run the Golden Gate Bridge” event. After several discussions with David Davis from Train Signal we decided that because of the huge amount of people interested and several positive reactions for sponsoring that VMware / VMworld should [...]