VMworld Experience Day 2 #VMworld
August 30, 2011 
Sean Crookston 
The day started off with Steve Herrod presenting some of the finer details of the newly announced products, and particularly diving much deeper into their desktop virtualization products. There is a lot of information out there and you can catch the presentation for yourself if you haven’t already, so I won’t go into great detail but will say I am very excited about the offerings VMware is bringing to the table. The product line and strategy seems to match the mobile device age we are in and solve some of the pain points with View 4.x.
I spent some more time today meeting vendors and checking out 3rd party products. There are just way too many to go into but in short there are a lot of choices when it comes to managing your infrastructure and as proven by all the acquisitions VMware has made a lot of the innovation in monitoring and managing comes from these smaller companies.
Perhaps the coolest thing I saw was the magician Quest hired out. The guy did a few tricks that were ridiculous. I still can’t figure it out. I definitely encourage you to check that out if you have some time to kill.
I also met up with a few people at the VMware community lounge, some who are part of the VMware Design Group I started and manage through Linked in. Met another few people I hadn’t before. Additionally I somehow managed to run into 2 people from the RecoverPoint course I took a few months back in NJ and another from the VMware Design workshop I took back in January. Small World.
A session of note I attended today was the Architecture Design with Mike DiPetrillo. This is a group discussion format that I wasn’t aware of when I booked it and it turned out to be a very insightful experience and I learned a lot from others about their Cloud Journey’s. To be honest I’m not so sure I even though this had anything to do with the Cloud when I booked it but then again what doesn’t these days. After the experience in this one I’m definitely thinking of getting into more of these sessions in the days to come instead.
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