Archive for February, 2009

Partner University Announced (2009-2-23)

A new portal at the VMware website has been setup to provide a comprehensive area for training for all types of user at all partners.
There is a sales focussed section a pre-sales focussed section and a technical focussed section.  Each section has a breakdown of the requirements to reach the appropriate milestones.  When you log [...]

vSphere Officially Official (2009-2-23)

Finally, someone from VMware has used the name vSphere in public at an event that matters.  I think that it has been fairly well known that this was going to be the name, even amongst those people that are not part of the beta program.
I have to be frank and say that I’m not sure [...]

Capacity Planner Assessments Hits >2.5m Servers (2009-2-23)

During the Partner Day General Session Carl Eschenbach mentioned in passing that VMware’s Capacity Planner assessment tools has been used to assess more than 2.5m servers since its inception.
As someone that implements Capacity Planner on a regular basis I always knew it was going to be used a lot around the world as both a [...]

EMEA General Manager Introduced (2009-2-23)

As you all may or may not know I work for Triangle Computer Services, a VMware VAC in the UK, so I had partricular interest in the new EMEA General Manager speech during todays general sessions.
Maurizio Carli, is the new (90 days in charge) General Manager of VMware EMEA and has some interesting points below [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 Day One (2009-2-22)

Okay, so I arrived in Nice at 15:30 and was met by a team of VMware dudes in bright red fleece jackets pointing me to the shuttle buses to take us into Cannes.  The bus already seems pretty full so god only knows what it is going to be like by tomorrow evening.
The weather is [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 Official Blogger (2009-2-18)

Just to let you all know that I have been invited to VMworld 2009 as an official blogger.  It appears I’ll be working with some of the other more well known VMware bloggers to try and bring you all of the news as it happens.
My flip video recorder arrived today so beware!  There’s going to [...]