Catching up with VMWorld Europe in a single afternoon
February 28th, 2008 | 
Author: I just got back from vacation and wanted to see what has been happening in Cannes at VMWorld Europe. I drove the family to Orlando, FL and “did the Disney thing” for 4 days so I was out of touch. Thanks to blogs like VMTN, NITRO.NL, and virtualization.info I was able to get relatively caught up in a single afternoon.
The first, and most logical place, to start was John Troyer’s VMTN blog. As always, John has done a great job rounding up opinion, news, reactions, and even multimedia covering the event. Scrolling almost to the bottom of the VMTN front page and working my way up walked me through Partner Day on Monday to Day 2 of the Conference on Wednesday.
And we’re off … VMWorld Europe 2008 gave me the link to the recorded keynote webcasts which I listened to in the background while I
began speed reading John’s posts and surfing the various links. The VMTN Blog informed me about Alessandro Perilli’s liveblog at virtualization.info.
VMTN’s post Tuesday’s keynote served three ways summarized Tuesday’s announcements and linked me to the press releases:
“Diane Greene kicked off VMworld Europe 2008 with this morning’s keynote. Highlights included
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- ESX Server 3i will be shipping on a host of OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM (press release)
- New desktop virtualization technology, including scalable virtual image technology, offline virtual desktop infrastructure, and application virtualization technology (aka Project Northstar aka Thinstall) (press release)
- New record of 16,000 Exchange mailboxes on a single server using virtualization (blog, press release)”
I blogged about the Exchange record earlier today without realizing that it was announced at VMWorld.
Next I was able to watch a YouTube video of a 2 minute walk through of the conference center, and then another video tour from day 2.
John has several more posts summarizing reactions and comments from various VMware sources, conference attendees, and the virtualization community.
Checking my Firefox RSS live feeds, I found a NITRO.NL post titled VMware VMsafe more secure than physical environments that caught my attention right about the same time Mendel Rosenblum started talking about VM security during the Day 2 Keynote webcast I was streaming in the background. After reading the post and listening to the webcast I found VMware’s page about VMsafe.
“VMsafe enables partners to build security solutions in the form of a virtual machine that can access, correlate and modify data to help control and protect:
- Memory and CPU. VMsafe provides introspection of virtual machine memory pages and CPU states.
- Networking. VMsafe enables filtering of network packets inside hypervisors,,as well as within the security virtual machine itself.
- Process execution. VMsafe provided in-guest, in-process APIs that enable complete monitoring and control of process execution.
- Storage. Guest virtual machine disk files can be mounted, manipulated and modified as they persist on storage devices.
VMsafe technology will be delivered in future versions of VMware Infrastructure, complemented by third-party security products that are built specifically for the VMware environment using a set of security APIs.”
I was a little disappointed that I could not find more details about the VMWorld party, but maybe with the time difference I will read, hear, and see more tomorrow. The end of the Day 2 Keynote webcast mentioned British music, French food, a flight simulator, motorcycles, surfing, and comedy. Sounds like a great event.
Finally, John Troyer’s post Yes, that’s what VMWorld is like is a great summary of “the buzz” that VMWorld generates. It truly is a conference unlike any other I have attended, and I look forward to VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas.
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