KEYNOTE

At Tuesday the general event of VMworld Europe 2008 started with the keynote by Diane Greene.

After welcoming the audience, showing some figures about growth and mentioning VMware was awarded the most reliable product by Redmond magazine with IBM mainframe as second runner up, Diane handed over to Stefan Van Overveldt from BT (British [...]

At monday the partner day kicked off the VMworld Europe 2008 event. With a keynote by Diane Greene and some other speakers and quite a lot (1200+) attendees. This was the first ever Partner day in Europe and I think it was a success!. Due to NDA-regulations I can’t elaborate too much, so I will [...]

Today (monday 25 feb 2008) Novell announced the acquisition of Platespin ltd.. Novell inc. will acquire PlateSpin for $205 million using current cash. The press-release can be found here.

So after Vizioncore being bought by Quest, now it’s the turn for Platespin to being swallowed by a big player [...]

Today or better tonight we (my collegue Piet Kiekebos and I) arrived in Cannes, after our plane touched the ground in Nice we catched the last shuttle bus to Cannes (around 23:30). The bus took us to the "Palais de Festivals" in Cannes. From here other shuttle buses took over the hotel visits. Unfortunately [...]

Patrick O’Rourke from the Windows Virtualization Team Blog noticed that The Yankee Group published a new report detailing about the pricing benifits customers will experience with the increasing competition in the virtualization business. Great timing by The Yankee Group publishing the report on the evening before VMworld Europe in Cannes.

In short the report [...]