February 29, 2008 12:50 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherThemed – water, ice, fire and earth, the VMworld party was spread across two big floors round the back of the convention center. The evening parties at the EMEA events have never been as good as the US events, and the last two TSX’s have...
February 29, 2008 12:50 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherAnyone who has done even a little bit of Microsoft Terminal Services or Citrix WhatEverWeAreCallingItThisYear 4.5 will know that THE biggest pain point in a thin-client environment is printing. Sure we have come along way from Windows 9x drivers getting “accidentally” installed to Window...
February 29, 2008 12:49 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI woke up on the last day quite tired. Met Sandy down in the lobby (we turned out to be staying in the same hotel) and got a taxi with all gear to the convention center. I head off to the very long titled breakout session called [deep breath] ...
February 29, 2008 12:44 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI was very kindly invited to an evening meal with Veeam.com. If you don’t know Veeam, where have you beean? 
They’re the guys behind the Reporter,...
February 29, 2008 12:43 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI hope you are catching a theme with my breakout sessions. They are all about new products. I’m not attending sessions which talk about tuning, optimising or troubleshooting existing known technology from VMware. Done that at Nice, Paris, LA...
February 29, 2008 12:34 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherAfter my chat with Tim, I bumped into Tarry Singh, and was roped into an unplanned and unscripted discussion with myself, David Marshall, Blogger, and Alex Pelster, Sr. Consultant, AtosOrigin about virtualization issues generally. I won’t...
February 29, 2008 12:33 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherBefore I head out to Canne, I was fortunate to be approached Russ Loftus who is Dell’s Dell Global Talent Acquisition guy. He was very kind to arrange a meeting with Tim Webb who is Dell’s Professional Services Manager in Round Rock,...
February 29, 2008 12:32 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI got back late to my hotel room on Tuesday night after one too many champagne receptions, some red wine – and some of the best pieces of lamb I can remember – in a bit of panic. It’s coming close to the end of the month – and I...
February 29, 2008 12:31 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherMendel delivered the keynote session today – the topics were vService and vSecurity. Mendel did make a node to Storage VMotion and Continuous HA. I know, Continious HA was shown last year at VMworld – but I was just hoping they would do it...
