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VMworld Europe 2010 Day 1 (Partner Day)

As stated earlier VirtualFuture.info is present again with both Sven Huisman as myself Matthijs Haverink.

If unofficially began yesterday with picking up the badges, grabbing something to eat, meeting up with Mike Laverick, Scott Herald, Scott Bennet and some other established names in the VMware Community. Later on a real spontaneous unofficial Dutch VMUG “borrel” by Viktorious (head of the Dutch VMUG): … Continue Reading

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VMworld Europe 2009: Name vSphere and 2 new products officially announced

Today Paul Maritz (VMware) in his keynote has used the name vSphere for the first time in public and told that the name will be official. Just to be clear : this name is not just VI4 or whatever you would call it but it’s the name for the next-gen products.

Besides that 2 new products were officially announced, details will follow later:

- vCenter Server Heartbeat (probably NeverFail technique)
- VMware vShield Zones

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Paul Maritz goes “virtualfuture” green

Today we met Paul Maritz. We handed him a Virtualfuture.info shirt  with the text:

“Real men use  real hypervisors”.

He seemed to like it, especially the color.

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Ex-Microsoft executive now leads VMWare!

Yesterday VMWare announched that founder and CEO of VMWare Diane Greene is replaced immediately by ex-Microsoft executive Paul Maritz. It needs to be said that Paul Maritz, wasn’t working at Microsoft for over 8 years, but nevertheless it’s an interesting move.

For those who keep close track on VMWare’s public activities and announcements it’s known that the CEO of EMC and the CEO of VMWare had some differences in opinion [understatement].

The direct effect at this point is … Continue Reading