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Having spent an intense couple of days in Copenhagen, I am retreating to the Bloggers lounge to wind down and reflect on my time here.

For me, the best part of the experience is the accessibility of the

community which VMware seems to promote and maintain at such a high level. While I know most of the UK based bloggers and experts, meeting some of the EMEA and US guys has been great and even though most of them are in a different league technically, you can still just turn up and talk to them.

I don’t know any other technology company that has this level of interaction, and it can’t hurt VMware when people can cialis see this publicly on mediums like Twitter and the community forums.

Speaking of Twitter, I commented yesterday after seeing David M Davis and Kendrick Coleman’s session about the free tools for VMware, that in its

own way Twitter has become a free support tool of its own. You only have to search #VMware as a hashtag to see people stating problems, mentioning blog posts and answering each others questions – all you need is Twitter and who to follow. Eric Siebert’s list gives any newcomer a great head start here.

I think the main disappointment I had was the lack of a working View client running on the iPad – especially as it was demo’d in SF you would hope the same systems would be available at both events.

All in all, a great few days where you have the opportunity to learn as much as you can from the leaders in their field. I now return to redouble my efforts to design a View architecture for the next quarter.

The keynote this morning resonated with me on various levels. In particular the phrasing of IT as a Service as being ‘optimizing IT production for business consumption’ marries up with my company’s view on how we want

to deliver services to the end user.

In our case this means both the internal end users within the company, and our external customer base. The last three years have seen a massive jump in the products we are delivering externally – with it came a massive expansion of servers that underpinned it. This was possible due to a significant investment in VMware that allowed us to grow out eight development environments.

This flexibility has meant the company is hungry to keep innovating, with a degree of confidence that it can be supported. The risk however is that maintaining, and growing the infrastructure with the agility required becomes more and more complicated.

VMware deem the management of this as four key cialis online factors:

• Efficient Pooling
• Elastic Resource Scheduling
• Automation through Policy
• Open and Interoperable
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Up until now, Enterprise Plus has not been a requirement for us but if we want to employ vCloud Director as the umbrella app for the estate we will need to evaluate the up-shift in licence costs and the overhead of deploying Oracle and Linux in a mostly Windows house.

The end user experience was also of interest in the speech – the comment about the CEO turning up with his iPad had already happened to us and the flow of devices are ramping up to the point we are having to look at appliances that can secure any device within the corporate workforce. Coupled with a recent wireless implementation, portable access to Windows machines is going to accelerate device adoption even faster, but at a rate controlled by us. Project Horizon looks to extend this with a centrally maintained and distributable ‘app store’ whereby the user experience drives the access and its consumption.

So some good messages coming from VMware – and they are attacking on a lot of new fronts across what they called the ‘New Stack’.

Well I am all packed and ready to go to VMworld – it looks like it is going to be better than some expected in terms of attendance so I am looking forward to meeting many of the VMware enthusiasts I don’t normally get to meet in the UK.

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gh already over halfway through our migration to ESXi I will be looking forward to various sessions on managing this better – and hope to share any revelations I learn in the next few days.

My other main focus will be VDI – the arrival of View 4.5, and my company’s impending migration to Windows 7 means I have a keen interest in trying to use VMware wherever possible. As an iPad owner I can’t wait to get my hands on the View Client app – it looks like a solid product from the teaser video in SF.

I will hopefully be frequenting the bloggers lounge to post some interesting updates, but as a reminder for those not attending, the Community section of the VMworld website will be an indispensible central source of all social media coming from the event. You can get to it here:

http://www.vmworld.com/community/vmworld-bloggers/

And for those of you lucky enought to make it, don’t

forget to bookmark the VMworld app for your mobile devices while at the conference.

http://vmworld.com/mobile

See you there!

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Well I am all packed and ready to go to VMworld – it looks like it is going to be better than some expected in terms of attendance so I am looking forward to meeting many of the VMware enthusiasts I don’t normally get to meet in the UK.
Although already over halfway through our migration to ESXi I will be looking forward to various sessions on managing this better – and hope to share any revelations I learn in the next few days.
My other main focus will be VDI – the arrival of View 4.5, and my company’s impending migration to Windows 7 means I have a keen interest in trying to use VMware wherever possible. As an iPad owner I can’t wait to get my hands on the View Client app – it looks like a solid product from the teaser video in SF.
I will hopefully be frequenting the bloggers lounge to post some interesting updates, but as a

reminder for those not attending, the Community section of the VMworld website will be an indispensible central source of all social media coming from the event. You can get to it here:

http://www.vmworld.com/community/vmworld-bloggers/

And for those of you lucky enought to make it, don’t forget to bookmark the VMworld app for your mobile devices while at the conference.

http://vmworld.com/mobile

See you there!
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