In July I offered to guest blog for Silicon Halton about VMworld. The question for me was ‘Where do I start?” Going back to basics, I’ll try to answer the classic 5 W’s surrounding these blogs. What is VMworld? If you aren’t familiar VMworld is the Information Technology equivalent to E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), or the Detroit Auto Show. VMworld will exibit new and existing technologies for the Datacenter and Desktop computing markets. Check out the official site (http://www.vmworld.com/) if you want to know more.
When is VMworld? The whole convention runs from August 30 to September 2 at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco California. I’ll be down there a day ahead of time to get prepared to help run my part of the event, and blog out some of bits and bytes from the floor of the Moscone. I guess that answers the ‘where’ as well! Why should I check out VMworld? If you can attend VMworld, it is the best opportunity to meet, greet, and learn from some of the world’s best virutalization experts. There are numerous labs, sessions, and panels to discuss all things relating to virutalization. This gives you the chance to learn and grow as a valued asset to your employer. Even if you can’t make it to the event directly, some of the content will be posted online and will be well worthing the time to view it. How can I get involved? VMworld.com has all the details for ticketing information, how to attend, view content online and all that good stuff. Cheers until next time. Jon
About the Silicon Halton Member Blogger
Jonathan Hemming is a VMware staff member based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. By day, he works as an Escalation Engineer at VMWare’s offices in Burlington, and works on some of the more complex problems with software like VMware Lab Manager. You can find Jon on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter @vJonHemming. (Editor’s note: See Jon’s post VMword 2010 blog here)