September 6, 2009
Infosmack Episode 18 - VMworld wrap up. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Devang Panchigar of CDS and StorageNerve.com and Ed Saipetch of Network Storage and BreathingData.com. This week’s topics include a VMware wrap up, buzz around Cisco and EMC’s “Alpine”, speculation around EvoStor, Cloud strategies around VMware and Marc Farley buttons at VMworld.
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Overall VMWorld was a bit of a let down for me. Aside from missing half of it I was one of the ones affected by the lab problems - Monday was my lab day - and the delay killed the whole plan for the day. I was only able to check out the floor Monday night and during the day on Tuesday but most of what you guys described was spot on. I got one of those singing 3Par badges and it was funny at first but now that grainy chorus haunts me in my sleep.
One smaller vendor on the floor that I'd say was working really hard to get attention like the big dogs was Veeam. There were Veeam staffers all over the place and their booth was packed all of the time I was there. Very impressive for such a young company. Quest/VisionCore (who gave away a bitchin Harley) better watch out. The CTX booth was a huge letdown - no XenServer demos - though the on street advertising was priceless (taxi cabs and bus stops).
One suprise, tucked away in the corner that it seemed no one even noticed, was Pivot3. They are a providor of very cost effective iSCSI storage for the surveilance space. One of the things they did last year was put a server component on the storage array so cameras could talk directly to storage without talking to a middle app server first (hardware wise anyways). Well this year they've expanded that and they were showcasing running ESX on the storage arrays. So if you had a cluster of four Pivot3 arrays you natively have four ESX servers. They have a ways to go before they are enterprise ready but I thought it was an important step in showing where things could go (potentially saying bye bye to more of the server market).
On the subject of Dell and Brocade... will there be a tighter partnership with Citrix now? Seems only natural...
Overall I'll probably go again next year but my expectations will be much much lower.