Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

vmworld

Run the Golden Gate Bridge – VMworld 2009

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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 take over.

We’ve just started the whole discussion internally at VMware and everyone is really excited about this. I can’t give any details at this point time but I promise we will have them soon. If anyone is interested to sponsor the run in anyway please let me know, all donations will go to charity of course! Currently we have Veeam, EMC, VMware, Train Signal, NetApp and possibly 3-PAR committed.

Of course I expect every single one of you to run along!

Our VMworld session will be repeated…

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Just received the following email:

Congratulations! Due to popularity, your session has been selected to be repeated. Your repeat session date and time are listed below.
Please confirm that you will be able to present this additional session by Tuesday, August 11. If confirmation is not received, your repeat slot will be given to another session.
TA2259 is currently scheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 1pm.
A repeat session is scheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 4:30pm.

Thank you for your prompt confirmation,

The VMworld Content Team

Thanks everyone for adding our session to your schedule!

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…

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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!