VMworld 2010 by the numbers

SAN FRANCISCO — Rick Jackson, VMware’s chief marketing officer, kicked off today’s VMworld 2010 keynote and shared some interesting numbers about the show and its history:

• 17,021: Registered attendees at VMworld 2010, up from 12,500 last year
• 85: Countries represented by attendees at VMworld 2010
• 1,400: Attendance at the first VMworld in 2004
• 55: People who have attended every VMworld
• 100,000: VMs deployed to support 20,000 labs at VMworld 2010
• 4,000: VMs running per hour, on average, in those labs