VMworld Europe 2009 – Solution Exchange
Today after the Keynote we descended to level -1 of the Palais des Festivals, better known as the VMware Solution Exchange. We knew that this was not a good idea as this is the level you will never leave. The Solution Exchange is a large…
VMworld Europe 2009 – Cisco Nexus 1000v hands-on lab
Today we did our first Hands-on-Lab. Last year these labs were fully booked so we decided to hit the lab early this year. This lab was based around the Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch, which brings back network administration to network administrators. Erik did the…
VMworld Europe 2009 – Keynote day 1
Maritzio Carli, GM for EMEA, opened the keynote today. He gave a lot of figures to reflect the grow in virtualization despite the hard economic times. These figures show that virtualization, and VMware in specific, is here to stay and invests heavily in people and…
VMworld Europe 2009 – Bloggers passes received
After talking to Eric Sloof we realized that we needed another pass for accessing the press lounge and locations like that. An e-mail to Richard Garsthagen made it all possible. When we arrived at the desk for bloggers there was one bloggers code not used….
Day 2 @ VMworld Cannes 2009
Hello all! I noticed a dramatic increase in the website’s traffic yesterday! That is a very good sign! It seems that you out there, like what we present here and that motivates us to keep up the flow of news and inside info’s. Let’s see…
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 update 4
Although I wasn’t able to join the VMGuru team to Cannes I can still blog about newly released products from VMware. One of those newly released products is the 4th update for VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 containing: Customization support for Windows 2008 server VM’s Performance overview…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Party Time
Almost all of our collegues and friends think that VMworld Europe 2009 is one big party. Hereby I want to tell them that they are eh, right?
VMworld Europe 2009 – VMware announces vCenter Management Suite
Today at VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes VMware introduced their strategy for the coming years. VMware combines Chargeback, CapacityIQ, Orchestrator, ConfigControl and self service in the vCenter Management Suite. These are the building blocks that create the foundation for the next level in the virtualization…
VMWorld Euope 2009 – Blogging on the spot
The process of blogging is through several means from making notes during the session the old fashioned way or by using new technology. (Got the laptop charging again). Also lots of photos or video are shot during the process and we will…
VMWorld Euope 2009 – VMware introduces vCenter Server Heartbeat
February 10th I participated in a VMware WebEx on their new vCenter addon, vCenter Server Heartbeat and today the news will be released in Cannes at VMWorld Europe 2009. vCenter Server Heartbeat is an important addon which creates high availability for vCenter Server. vCenter Server…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – New strong leader shown to the public
Today VMware announced a new team member for the EMEA region for the fastest growing market world wide, his name is Maurizio Carli. Carli has more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry, including five years at Business Objects where he was Senior…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner day
We just enjoyed the General Session for Partner day 2009 and the message is ‘the virtualization business is still growing’, ‘2009 is all about client virtualization’ and ‘get up, register opportunities, close deal, dig deap’. The keynote was presented to us by Paul Maritz, CEO of…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner Day, Our first photo’s
Just a couple of minutes ago the keynote ended. Now it’s time to post some photo’s. If you want to see what you are missing check out the pictures in the gallery. [fancygallery id=”3″ album=”29″]
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner Day preview
After a short night it all begins, VMWorld Europe 2009! Today we start with Partner Day, a day where VMware shows the latest partner programs, sales and training programs and marketing initiatives. Partner Day is the place for all partners (including Centric) to: • Hear from…
In flight
I dropped the boys off at the airport. They are in flight at the moment and will touch down in Nice in about 20 minutes or so. Let’s hope they make it in time to get the bus to Cannes. I hope we will see…