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I wanted to share some of my photos from my week in San Diego at VMware Partner Exchange 2008. I have some panoramic shots of San Diego by night and day, a shot from the bay of the Sheraton Hotel and Marina, as well as photos from the party at the Wavehouse. I took some time after the conference ended Thursday afternoon to take a harbor cruise. The San Diego Harbor Excursion offers 1 hour tours of both the North and South Bay, and luckily I had time to take the full tour.

I used Google’s Picasa to create a quick collage of some of my favorite shots of the week.

This post also has a short video of the surfers performing for us in the Bruticus Maximus wave machine at the event party. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

I am proud to announce that SearchVMware.com has invited me to become a contributer to the Virtualization Pro Blog. My first post was published earlier today.

“Maybe it’s because I just spent a week at the VMware Partner Exchange in San Diego and I am full of the VMware “Kool Aid”, but it appears to me that VMware has a pretty good strategy, focus and direction for staying ahead of the competition. While other vendors are still perfecting and marketing their hypervisor, VMware is talking about automation and management of the virtual data center with products like Site Recovery Manager, Lab Manager, Stage Manager, and Lifecycle Manager.”

Be sure to add this great virtualization site to your bookmarks and feed readers and look for future posts from me there!

I ended up with a Toyota Prius as my rental car for the week in San Diego. I’ve never driven a Prius before, and honestly, I’ve never really had an interest in the car until now. Like most, I knew that the Prius uses a Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) engine, but I had no idea about all the cool technology built into making the car so efficient. As a matter of fact, the Prius engine technology is in some ways similar to the Distributed Resource Scheduling and Power Management features of VI3 Enterprise.

According to wikipedia’s page about the HSD: Read the rest of this entry »

I am headed to San Diego today for VMware Partner Exchange 2008. It should be another great week of learning and networking. I am looking forward most to the hands on labs for Site Recovery Manager, ESXi, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and Lab Manager. There is also separate technical solution tracks for beginner, intermediate, and advanced breakout sessions. The exhibit pavillion, called the VMware Experience, sounds interesting too. Quoting the event website: Read the rest of this entry »