Thursday 9.13.07 Keynote - what I missed :(

Posted on September 15th, 2007 in appliance, availability, gen session, stor vmotion, vmware, vmworld by Rich

Unfortunately I slept late Thursday morning. Waking up at 7:30 am in Hayward, CA meant that there was no way short of a helicopter I was going to make it to San Francisco before 9. I’m pretty sure my company would not let me expense a helicopter so I decided to catch up on some email from the hotel until traffic burned off. I also had “Smash Head” from the party Weds night!

blog.scottlowe.org has some great notes on this session. Here’s my thoughts on what I missed.

General Session 09.12.07 - Cisco VFrame

Posted on September 12th, 2007 in cisco, gen session, vmworld by Rich

Notes from the General Session:

John Chambers - CEO - Cisco

VMWorld General Session 09.12.07John talked about his vision of networking / Internet / business strategy changes for IT infrastructure and business unit decision making.

How do we enable employee productivity and customer satisfaction using virtualization / collaboration?

Internet Phase 1 - unprecedented productivity in 1990s

  • orders over internet
  • customer self service

Internet Phase 2 - Web 2.0 - we are here now

  • New services /support
  • new sales model
  • internal wikis / i-zone
  • aquisition model = 8 days vs 45 days
  • command / control / collaboration / teamwork enabled by virtualization

Collaboration will be driver for Web 2.0 and second wave of productivity and Innovation
web services will provide replay of technology growth of the ’90s - using technology like

  • wikis
  • forums
  • facebooks
  • u tube

09.11.07 - ESX 3i Demo / Intel / AMD

Posted on September 11th, 2007 in conf info, esx 3i, gen session, intel, vmware, vmworld by Rich

VMWorld 2007 TVGeneral Session notes:

Conference stats

  • over 10,000 attendees
  • 147 Exibitors

Diane Green - President & CEO - VMware