Off to VMworld 2009

August 30th, 2009 by Julia Lim

VMworld 2009 is just around the corner. I’m off to SF, looking forward to dim sum at Yank Sing (yes, I will be getting the peking duck) and packing winter clothes (SF has the coldest summer I have ever experienced). This year’s virtualization extravaganza is at the Moscone Center – where I just spent another week of my life at Cisco Live, freezing outside and getting hit by forklifts inside (that is a story for another time).

I’m looking forward to catching up with all things VMware. Conference-wise, it’s a completely crazy schedule with far more sessions, and overlapping sessions to boot, than any person could conceivably take in – between the VMware product update sessions and all the “partner” sessions that talk about each vendor’s virtualization and now “cloud” positioning.

A year ago, then-new CEO Paul Maritz, fresh from his stints as CEO of a cloud computing startup and head of cloud computing over at EMC, kicked off the show with a brand new strategy centered around making virtualization (i.e., VMware) the center of cloud computing enablement – from the cloud OS, to cloud “management” to partnerships with service providers “certified” to implement VMware in their cloud offerings. It was a cloud onslaught and accelerated what was a heating-up cloud computing world.

One year later, I look forward to seeing what VMware has accomplished and how much of what they envisioned the cloud to be, and VMware’s role in it, actually came to pass. The drama has already started – from VMware’s announcement of its SpringSource acquisition to Microsoft and Citrix complaining about their more limited exposure at VMworld (hmmm, aren’t they competitors?).

I’ll be blogging live, starting with the VMworld keynote on Tuesday. If last year’s is anything to go by, this one should be a doozy.

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