VMworld 2013 - 10 years of VMworlds! Registration is open - time to sign-up. There were 45 of us that have attended every VMworld. I predict 35 this year - time to start an office pool.
I'm on the VMworld Content Committee again this year and I'm seeing some fantastic sessions in the Business Continuity and Storage tracks. Some are some reoccurring themes again this year such as Cloud and the Software Defined Datacenter, but I'm seeing more focus on specific aspects of these concepts - backup in the cloud, cross-cloud backup and recovery, Software Defined Storage and Software Defined Networking. I'm seeing more on distributed storage than in past years. I saw a demo of VMware's distributed storage tech at a session last year (I think they were calling vSAN). I was very impressed. Lot's of questions remain on scalability, performance and of course, when it will be released. But given they had a working prototype last year, I have to believe it will be soon.
I remember the first VMworld - everything was anemic compared to today's event: standing-room-only sessions (if you could get in), a couple of dozen exhibitors, etc. I do remember being blown away by some stats given by Diane Greene in the General Session, especially those on processor utilization - Mainframes=85%, Unix/mid-range=50%, x86/Wintel=5-15% (or something very similar). Unfortunately, this video is not on the VMworld site. However, for a blast down memory lane, check this one out:
http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-4087
I won't get to sign-up of another week or two but as my mom used to say "beggars can't be choosers". And that's okay - the main thing will be getting a decent hotel within a decent walking distance. May not be
possible this year but we'll see.
Overall it looks to be another good one. What will be theme? The party? Who's the band? I'm guessing VMware has something special planned this year. Another office pool?
See you there!
No comments:
Post a Comment