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Just a quick note that the recorded version of the VMware Europe 2009 Day 1 Keynote is available to view from VMworld.com I did not have have to use my VMworld.com account to start the replay. Enjoy!

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Notes from the General Session:

John Chambers – CEO – Cisco

John 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

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General Session notes:

Conference stats

• over 10,000 attendees
• 147 Exibitors

Diane Green – President & CEO – VMware

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