VMworld

…and boy have the last few months been a rollercoaster! It’s the end of August.  It’s absolute crunch-time.  Everyone is going nuts.  We’re all excited/stressed/overwhelmed/insert-your-favorite-adjective every year around this time. It’s time for VMworld! This year, we are BRINGING IT!  More gear!  More People!  More demos!  Hands-On-Labs!  Giveaways!  Bigger Booth! Every year we start around...

It is upon us, folks!  VMworld 2013 has unofficially begun, especially for all of us that work nearly year round to put this show on.  From booth planning, deciding which sessions are the best of the best (out of over 100) to submit to you for voting, to building powerpoints, planning our “big bang,” working...

It’s a strange thing being robbed.   You don’t expect it, think other people are nuts, and they must be doing something wrong when it happens to them. That would never happen to me!  …you’d say.

One of the coolest parts of VMworld is the community and brotherhood and level of camaraderie that a large group of us have become a part of.  I wanted to take a moment to highlight two key groups that were interviewing members of the community to highlight their opinions, as well as their areas of expertise.

Lots of cool stuff going on at the show this year.  What amazes me most is the sheer number of people that continue to repeatedly come back every year.  Three years ago, it had just crested 10,000 attendees.  This year, I’m hearing 25,000.  Wow.  Virtualization is alive and well, and building the community the way...