There’s no excuse anymore to wait with getting your VMworld Europe tickets. VMworld Europe just announced the first bunch of of sessions! Be sure to check it out here and pick up your ticket now so you don’t miss out on the good stuff!
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VMware is expecting more than 5,000 attendees at VMworld…
Just noticed the following press release:”VMware Announces Speaker and Exhibitor Lineups for VMworld Europe 2009“.
Europe’s Largest Virtualization Event Garners Broad Industry Support From Leading IT Vendors
FRIMLEY, England & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 14, 2009–VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that nine of the IT industry’s leading vendors have confirmed their participation at VMworld Europe 2009 as Platinum sponsors of the event. At the same time, the company announced that keynote addresses at the event will be headed by Paul Maritz, President and CEO of VMware; Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer, VMware; and Dr. Wolfgang Krips, Managing Director, SAP Hosting.
Headline sponsors of the second VMworld Europe conference have been confirmed as CA, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NetApp and Symantec. VMware is the overall event sponsor of VMworld Europe 2009.
VMworld Europe 2009 will build on the success of the first VMworld Europe conference, which more than 4,500 delegates attended. This year, VMware is expecting more than 5,000 attendees at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes between 24-26 February. The event has rapidly become Europe’s largest virtualization forum. Alongside these nine Platinum sponsors, nearly 70 other exhibitors have confirmed their participation, bringing innovative virtualization offerings to the event, as well as a strong presence from vendors with traditional networking, storage, applications and security expertise.
5000, VMware expects 5000 attendees. If you didn’t sign up yet, go here!
VMworld Europe, be there!
I often get the question where I get my information from. Besides the wealth of information found on the PlanetV12n blogs and the VMware documentation there’s another great source: VMworld. Some go to VMworld just for “networking”, but besides expanding your network you can gather a lot of knowledge during your stay. Not only during your stay, because your vmworld.com account will also give you the possibility to download the presentations. These presentations contain, and especially the deep-dive sessions, in-depth information on the chosen subject.
Just to give you an idea, check this presentation that Rich shared via VM/ETC.com “VI3 TA19, Advanced Log Analysis“. There’s a great section on SCSI Error Strings which might just explain the vmkernel log messages you’ve been seeing(Storagemonitor). Anyway, VMworld Europe 2009, France – Cannes, Be there and Register now!
Blogging @ VMworld Europe?!
So if you want to do some live blogging at VMworld Europe you better be sure to read this blog. Richard Garsthagen is taking care of the famous Bloggers Lounge, and last editions have been a treat for the bloggers:
I’m not making any promises, but last year the folks who were regularly blogging were treated very well by Richard, including custom shirts, a nice place with power and connectivity and refreshments to blog, press passes, and room to shoot video or do interviews. I highly recommend getting on Richard’s list.
I don’t know if I’m able to go and if I will have time to do live blogging but I will try and pull all strings! Register now and make sure you won’t miss out on this awesome event in the south of France!
VMware Cloud strategy
Lately I’ve been reading all these blog and news articles that deal about the key message of VMworld: Cloud Computing. A lot of the journalists and blog writers didn’t pay attention during the Keynotes because they keep coming back to the fact that a lot of companies want to keep control of their data. Companies don’t want to have all their data floating around in a “cloud”.
So what’s Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is Internet based development and use of computer technology. The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals. It is a style of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service”, allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. (source wikipedia)
So this is where people get confused, in the first sentence it says “Internet”. So this must mean that my data isn’t secure and out of my hands… And VMware thinks everyone will be doing this in the future?
A bit further down the same wikipedia page it states:
The majority of cloud computing infrastructure currently consists of reliable services delivered through next-generation data centers that are built on compute and storage virtualization technologies. The services are accessible anywhere in the world, with The Cloud appearing as a single point of access for all the computing needs of consumers. Commercial offerings need to meet the quality of service requirements of customers and typically offer service level agreements. Open standards and open source software are also critical to the growth of cloud computing.
So the services(and data) are accessible anywhere in the world, with a single point of access. It doesn’t state that your services are out in the open. There is a thing called “internal” cloud and you can find a great explanation on the internal cloud on VINF.NET. Keep in mind that they wrote this article before VMware announced the vCloud initiative.
Although the word cloud was used a lot of times during the keynote I don’t think that’s what the keynote was actually about. The keynote was about new VMware technology.
These new technologies seem to revolve around one thing, delivering your services with a certain SLA. And to be able to do this, one has to have a heavily optimized and automated environment, preferably virtualized. That is what the keynote was actually about in my opinion, the integration of all these new and existing products into the Virtual DataCenter OS to enable SLA-driven effective usage of resources for an optimal user experience.