Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Keynote session 1

After long lines to get into the conference center thenk God someone had the sense to relax security in order to get everyone in on time.




The keynote is opened by the European general manager Mauricio Carli.





Next up of course Paul Maritz




After a bit of history of VMware the scene is set for the Cloud architecture vision of VMware.







And there it is, VMware's evolutionary vision towards cloud computing. The idea is that this addresses a number of things:
- ownership of data, security
- legacy apps, no need to re-write your business apps. You can enter the cloud as-is and possibly migrate slowly to a jeos(pronounced juice, just enough OS).

Next up was a demo of terremark as an example of an external cloud provider.




The above slide summarizes the benefits that an external provider can offer, concisely.

Next up the vision for enterprise user computing.
The idea that is being built on is that the traditional model is device centric but should really be user centric.
To complete the vision that started with VDI, enter the client hypervisor.
This in turn will enable the BYO- PC (bring your own) vision.




Next was sap



Problems with this today:
- billing
- asset management
- can't buy the automation n orchestration layer





To fund this following projects were idnetified to address this:



Config management also an issue.
Here's an idea:





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