Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

News

VMworld Europe 2010 postponed to October

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The rumors were already floating around in the blogosphere but as a VMware employee I could not comment on it. The word is finally out…

Source
We are pleased to announce that VMworld Europe will be held in October 2010. The VMworld Europe conference will follow our Global VMworld conference, scheduled for San Francisco in September 2010, to ensure that we are able to roll out key initiatives to customers and partners more quickly and consistently worldwide. As the leading virtualization conference, VMworld will continue to offer its diverse global audience the latest information on how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing.

More information on the specific dates and location for VMworld Europe 2010 will be announced soon!

You’ve probably already read the comments of the bloggers on this decision and if not you might want to read these articles:

Personally I don’t know what the reason is for moving the conference to October instead of February. Of course I share some of the concerns mentioned in the blog articles above. I personally hope a new location will be chosen. Cannes was a nice location the last two editions but my guess is that Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and even Nice would be more appealing to most European attendees. (Definitely cheaper!) I guess we will just have to wait and see what the VMworld Europe team comes up with.

VMworld Party & Golden Gate Bridge Run

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One thing that everyone who is attending VMworld is always  curious about is the VMworld party. On twitter a couple of hours ago @vmworld revealed that the party will be held at Yerba Buena Gardens. Unfortunately they have not revealed yet who the legendary US/British rock band is that supposedly has been booked. We will just have to wait and see I guess…

Another thing I’m personally excited about is the Golden Gate Bridge Run. This is an initiative that also started on twitter. As some of us will be bringing our running shoes we decided to do a daily run. Another idea we had was to do the Golden Gate Bridge. If you are interested in joining head over to this blog post and leave a comment if you want to tag along. We might be getting every attendee a t-shirt, and are also looking in to getting this sponsored and donating to charity. Cool huh!

Drummonds vs Crosby

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I was just watching the Drummonds vs Crosby debate. Many people have analyzed the videos already but the one worth reading is the article by Mr Stevie Chambers. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look it’s definitely worth it. One thing I would like to note is that in my opinion this was the wrong match. I don’t think Crosby is a performance expert. He seems to be more focused on: sales pitch, eula’s and features included in the hypervisor but not in Xenserver. In other words, Drummonds definitely won… knock out in the third round by EPT 😉

Now, my comment to Citrix… As Scott openly challenged you guys to show benchmark reports(Spec etc) and compare them to VMware’s reports please step up to the plate! That’s what ours and your customers would like to see!

Run it with VMware Contest…

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There are still a couple of days left to enter the “Run It With VMware” contest. I just noticed a tweet which had a link to a video of one of the contestants. I thought it was funny, especially the last bit were the woman does the vSphere rap. Anyway, $ 5000,- grand prize and four $ 1000,- second prizes should be more than worth the effort. For more info check this website.

You can find more videos on Youtube.com.

Want to become a VCDX before the end of year?

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Yesterday I posted an article that the required exams for the VCDX certification would be available at VMworld at discounted prices. Today Rick broke the news that VCDX Defense panels are also scheduled for VMworld.

This reminded me that I still haven’t heard from VMware on the results of my VCDX Design Exam beta.  I was really hoping that I would receive my passing grade (hopeful huh?) and schedule the defense during VMworld.

Well, I called Tina (she’s so famous now!) at VMware and chatted about this.  She sounded hopeful that the results would be sent out by end of business tomorrow (Friday 7/24).  She also informed me that in addition to VCP and VCDX exams being available at VMworld, that VMware will also be scheduling VCDX Defense sessions during the week.  Great news!

I didn’t know we were allowed to talk about it but now that the word is out… Like Rick said, design exam results will be sent really soon. VCDX Defense Panels will be scheduled before and directly after VMworld, not during as far as I know. Those who passed the exam better start preparing, good luck and maybe we will meet at one of the sessions as I will be part of the panel. For the European candidates who are not attending VMworld, panels will also be scheduled in Europe. Dates and location are still to be confirmed though.