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. Read the rest of this entry »
Got over to the Moscone Center early this morning. Looking pretty good, cool setup in the foyer:
The lines were not too long yet and moving quickly at the registration counter….
The longest lines I would find were in the VMware Store in Moscone South. Make sure to head over there soon if you want the “big guy” shirts like me…..
If you would like to join us, we’d love to have you. I’m not one to advertise what I do (other than this blog of course). However if you are interested, register for BC2704 – SRM, a real customer experience. Jerry and I are going to tell his story of everything he did to setup his SRM environment running in production. All the things he considered and learned from his experience. If you do get the chance to please catch me afterwards, I love to meet readers of the site and “talk shop”.
If you haven’t done so already, head on over to the scheduler builder and get the sessions you want. We’d love to have you in BC2704 and I hope to see you there.
-Dave
I read an article last night and felt the need to make the virtualization community aware of it. It does not directly affect virtualization but it does affect our users and certainly our desktop admins.
Microsoft provided a chart to Walt Mossburg, a writer for the Wall Street Journal. It was a chart showing the upgrade options for users of XP and Vista and what options then had when upgrading. Walt felt the need to blog on the topic due to the complexity of the chart and limited options for some users.
You can read his entire article here or just take a quick look at the chart he posted here.
What amazes me (and Walt) is that there are 66 cells on this chart and only 14 of them are “in-place” upgrades. 52 of the cells are “custom install” Now I will be the first to concede that the majority of the users will fall into the 14 cells. However, if you were considering changing edition or moving to 64-bit when you went to Windows 7 the upgrade may not be very friendly. That means the users (or admins) must move their data off, install from scratch, and reinstall all their apps and copy their data back. Yikes.
Seeing an opportunity to poke a little fun, the guys over at cultofmac.com posted some similar charts for OSX. Pretty funny for a Monday morning.
After 17 years in the PC industry I have finished my conversion to my first Mac. I can remember my days at Limited Brands when the design department used them religiously. 11 PC people with me on staff at Victoria’s Secret back in those days and we had to outsource the support of the Macs. Surely none of us wanted to touch them. Now, 10 years later, I find myself on one.
My decision to go to a Macbook was not based on “the cool factor”. It was 3 things for me: battery life, reliability, and sturdyness (I’m a bit rough on laptops). Read the rest of this entry »
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