All Things Virtualization 
I’m just finishing up the last of my meetings here at VMworld 2009 and the show has been great. VMware pulled in over 12,000 attendees, which is pretty impressive. Most of the attendees I spoke with said it was their only event they attended this year and that it was a good use of their time.
What’s new this year?
Nothing – lots of just moving the ball forward.
Definitely a more mature crowd than years past; it was clear that many have moved beyond virtualization as a technology and adopted it as a strategy.
What’s the most impressive thing I saw?
The investment Wyse made, the company’s presence at the show, the massive amount of traffic at their booth and their current position of strength in the market.
What was left uncovered?
The tie between SpringSource and vSphere for IT Operations
What was the biggest potential blunder?
VMworld is no longer an industry trade show. This was pretty clear in VMware’s restrictions on companies like Microsoft and Citrix. They only had a 10 x 10 booth and, from my understanding, they could not demo ANY competing technologies.
There were also some hiccups with hands on labs that are very popular.
What’s the coolest demo I saw?
F5 showed me a long distance vMotion. The demo used F5's BIG-IP solutions with VMware vSphere 4, VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion, and the VMware vCenter APIs. I can see some really usefully use cases for the ability to seamlessly move the virtual machine and its associated storage over distance while the application remains online. I suspect VMware FT is next up on the list.
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