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VMware PEX 2010: News And Announcements
February 13th, 2010 | 
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Here’s some links, thoughts, and general information surrounding some of the announcements that caught my attention during the VMware Partner Exchange 2010 conference. This is by no means and inclusive list of every press release and announcement made during the conference. To be honest, I wouldn’t doubt that I missed something more significant than the handful of news listed here. Let me know if I did!
The VMware Express
I personally toured the 18 wheeler on Monday evening before the Conference Kickoff Reception. I would recommend VM /ETC readers catch this VMware View demo center on wheels when it rolls through your town.
“The VMware Express is a datacenter and demo environment on wheels and it will be crossing the U.S. and Canada over the next year letting you, our customers get hands on with the latest and greatest technologies in your own back yard.”
NetApp’s Vaughn Stewart has a nice post about the VMware Express with great photos from inside the truck. There is also another half dozen blog posts in the form of
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Tags: bluelock, ibm, partner, partner exchange 2010, pex2010, vcloud express, vmware, vmware express, vmwarepex | 
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Obama’s TIGR Team Considers Cloud Computing for Government Transformation
The Change.gov group has published a video on YouTube titled Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government. In this 4 minute video the Technology Innovation and Reform Team (TIGR) discusses how the U.S. Government has fallen behind in technology and how the new administration will implement and explore modern web applications to provide services, lower costs of operations, and provide better transparency to the people. At about 2:50 into the video, cloud computing is recognized as a way to drastically reduce the cost of Information Technology compared to traditional server infrastructure, and the shift to cloud computing will be one of the most important transformations the Federal Government will go through.
Earlier this week I posted about Obama’s Citizen Briefing Book and the need to vote up virtualization ideas for the new administration. The virtualization idea is obviously related to this video, and it’s great to see the TIGR team and the new administration focused on advancing cloud computing technology in our Government.
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