I visited the Installfree booth at VMWorld today and they seemed very excited to meet me. Apparently, Installfree got some very positive feedback from people who read the application virtualization comparison chart I created with Matthijs Haverink. Now it looks like we have to update the chart with some new features that are not in the list write now and that competitors don’t have. Read the rest of this entry »

Today VMWorld 2008 started off with partner day. The first session I attended was the EMEA regional session. It is definitely noticeable there is a new wind blowing through VMware. They are changing a lot of things marketing-wise. I guess that’s the influence of Paul Maritz. As a former Microsoft-guy, he knows how marketing is done.

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Hierbij het programma:

16:00-16:30 Binnenkomst en registratie

16:30-16:45 Opening event

16:45-17:45 Presentatie VMware - ”VMWorld 2008 overview”

17:45-19:00 Eten Las Vegas style

19:00-20:00 Presentatie/demonstratie - “VMWorld 2008 technical deep dive”

20:00-21:00 Borrel + verloting

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I was looking over the VMWorld 2008 session catalog (I think you’ll need a VMWorld account), and it’s going to be a promising event with a lot of interesting sessions. Off course, there are a lot of best practices sessions, which are always good to attend, but I also found some other interesting sessions. Here is my top 5:

VI Management Assistant (VIMA):
Never heard of this before, it looks like a virtual appliance for deploying agents and scripts to ESX(i) servers.

Virtual Storage Appliances:
How can environments without shared storage still benefit from the high availability features of VC? VMware introduces a new storage architecture: OpenVSA Platform.

VMware Workstation 6.5 Unleashed:
It sounds like VMware workstation 6.5 will be released just before or at VMWorld 2008!

Offline VDI:
This session will introduce the new feature of the upcoming VDM 3.0, I expect to be released at the end of the year.
 
An Introduction to VMO:
The VMware Automation and Orchestration Tool : Find out about the automation engine that powers Life Cycle Manager. I think it’s sort of like Citrix Workflow Studio

Unfortunately, no sessions about Continuous Availability, something VMware showed on VMWorld 2007.

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EWeek.com had a Q&A with VMware’s president and CEO Diane Greene. She talks about how virtualization has changed the last year and how she thinks virtualization will develop the next 12-18 months. It’s a good read, and here are some things that interested me the most: Read the rest of this entry »

This weekend I’ve made my reservation for VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. I’m attending this conference together with a colleague, Johan van Zanten. We are planning to keep track of the sessions we visit and blog about it on virtualfuture.info. So please come back to this site if you want to know what happens in Vegas (from 15-18 september that is)…