A report from VMworld 2008
Virtual Reality
VMworld, the world's largest virtualization event, offered a variety of technical events, birds-of-a-feather sessions, press conferences, and perhaps the biggest IT party ever. VMworld's fifth year is one to remember.
VMware's VMworld 2008, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 15-18, offered a week of virtual reality. Immediately on walking into the registration and trade show areas, attendees could tell what the big topics of this year's conference would be: Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Virtual Infrastructure Management, and Virtual Storage.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) was a huge topic, and almost every vendor at the show had their own brand of VDI or supporting products for it. The major players – VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat/Qumranet, Dell, Citrix, HP, and others – all discussed their solutions for VDI. One big surprise in this area came on Tuesday from Cisco when they announced their new strategic partnership with VMware. The most notable portion of this announcement came when Cisco stated that the partnership included the use of Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Application Control Engine (ACE) to replace the industry standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The use of Cisco's proprietary services and protocols in place of RDP boosts performance by as much as 65 percent. This performance boost alone gives VMware a significant edge in the increasingly competitive VDI market.
Vendors were abuzz with the terminology du jour, such as cloud computing, virtual cloud, leveraged storage, VSANs (Virtual Storage Area Networks), and the usual preponderance of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms). Overall, vendors had a single important message to deliver: Virtualization is the future. Apparently I'm not the only one who agreed – more than 14,000 people attended VMworld this year.
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