The VMguy

Every time I come to VMworld, I’m always facinated by the booths.  It’s only at the largest industry events that the vendors pull out all the stops and build these gigantic advertisements.  For you’re enjoyment, I’ve photographed a few for you.  I’ll apologize now to my RSS readers.  I post my entire articles in my RSS feed so those of you on it will get all these as well. I also want to mention that I only photographed a few of them, there were far too many booths to get them all in.  I tried to get the most noteworthy and those that were very creative. We’ll start with the VMware Booth.  It took 5 days to fully assemble and it was very difficult to get all in one shot due to the size.  It had 4 corners, each with demos on the related products (you can see Cloud Services and datacenter in the pic).  It also included a theater with scheduled sessions/presentations and a fully staffed genius bar where customers could ask just about anything. Next up was Red Hat.  They had a cool booth that was very tall.  It also had a theater and pods for demos and information. Kingston had a really cool idea, they brought in a professional gamer (it’s the girl in the leather on the left, yes, really) they were giving out prizes to anyone who could beat her in Guitar Hero. I didn’t get to see anyone beat her and I don’t think many did. Vizioncore gave away a motorcycle and had a very eye-catching light board in the center of their booth. BMC Software had a artist drawing portraits of people in their booth. I tried for a while but could not get close to the Teradici booth, too packed with people. Bluecat networks actually had a virtual roller coaster ride in their booth. Of course Microsoft had their booth. ha ha, my little joke, actually here was their booth: Veeam had a cool design that looked like a baseball field and stadium. Their bright green attire didn’t go unnoticed either. HP had a conservative design but they also had jugglers come out and juggle knives while telling the HP story. I wanted to get a shot of that for you but the crowds would grow so big that I couldn’t get close enough. Wyse gave away a few electric scooters that were really cool. Intel had a theater in their’s.  It was really a System Engineer’s dream: a giant whiteboard. All in all they were very good. It was great to talk to all of the vendors and learn about many of their products. There were the typical “booth babes”, scantily clad women who don’t really know much about the products, but they didn’t get the attention of the attendees. It was the creative ideas like the virtual roller coaster or jugglers or great giveaways that really seemed to get people’s attention this year. That proves to me one thing: VMworld is truely a classy event. *photos are copyright vmguy.com. Any reproduction without express written consent is prohibited.