VMworld 2009 – the session I’m looking forward to the most!

There’s going to be a ton of good stuff there, as always.  If you want to see what EMC is doing – which is going to be MASSIVE, you can check out my earlier post here (which includes a funny video that makes fun of my tendency to wear suits, and also includes the way to get a discounted pass!).  

In our 12 VMware/EMC-centric sessions, I’m really excited about:

• the keynote (we have a lot of announcements around vStorage, platforms, and vCenter integration and also demos of the future – folks who have seen me do these before, I try to highlight what we’re doing together with VMware both immediately and mid and long term).  
• The EMC Ionix management stuff is REALLY REALLY cool.   We’ve been quietly building a massive portfolio in the management space around the virutalized datacenter (which I truly think is as important as anything else).   I’m pushing to make the VM appliance variants more out there for play, but will do posts and demos of this soon.
• The RSA gang and VMware teams have been working intensely since Jan, and there are fruits of that now starting to show up, so that will be cool too.

In the booth, we’re pushing hard for a lot of 10GbE and FCoE stuff in the booth (and giving away iomega ix2s) – will be pretty fun!

From a personal standpoint the one I’m looking forward to the most is the “Ask the Experts” panel – TA2259.

On the panel it will be a great group with popular blogs: Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer, Duncan Epping, Tom Howarth, and myself.  

I really want to hear YOUR questions!   If you want to submit a question in advance, simply fill out the form below and your submission will be sent for review, around the beginning of August we will be notifying the submission owners if we will be using their submission or not.

BTW if behind the EMC firewall, yes, I know that it’s blocked by the corp firewall – Google Docs was a quick way for us to get it posted… if you have a burning question – post from the internet.

So, here is your chance to have that hard hitting Virtualization/Design question answered!

One question that came up was if we were still going to have an open floor portion, and the answer is YES! The majority of the session will be open floor, but we do want to have a handful of good questions to help spin off the session and also for those quiet moments.

 

Comments

[David Robertson]

I will definitely be attending that Q&A session, cant wait!