I went to two other sessions and they just weren’t anything I was intersted in so I left early and spent time talking with engineers from various companies about their products.   So far I’m not really too wowed by much of the products.   This fits into my feelings about the keynote after it was done.   Not really wowed at all.  No new product announcements, version announcements or even serious tech previews.   The one I was all excited to see on the big screen was the PCoIP and they rushed through that.  

The vCloud announcement was nice as it is starting to get somewhat defined for the industry.  Thanks to Jian Zhen (zhenjl) from VMware for pointing me to the vCloud API.  I’ll be reading through that this week.   Probably on the flight home knowing me.   Seeing the investment by companies like Terremark already for “on demand servers access” is nice and in the ranges of cost feasibility. 

Overall the day has been productive and less than exciting.

Something new.. from VMworld 2009 Opening Keynote

vSphere:

VMware-Go - Helps get ESXi configured and setup for SMB customers.

vCloud:

vmware virtualized – vCloud certified enterprise ready services.  
vCloud Express – Rapid and inexpensive light workload ready functionality by service providers.  (Nice demo on Terremark services)
VMware vCloud API – vApp deployment, Inventory listing, vApp operations, Catalog Mgmt, and more

SpringSource

Key goal is to simplify application frameworks and gain better understandings.  

Woot.  3 days until I hit San Francisco and begin the awesomeness that is VMworld.   I’ve got my schedule packed and for a first I’m getting asked to take a peek of a couple different vendor products from people internal to the company.   These folks want to get input on if these products will be useful for our different internal efforts with respect to our virtualization environments and OS environments.  (Note.. if you don’t catch the mega WOOTness here you should now.  VMware is becoming a noticeably important tool at director and above levels.)