Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Vmware's Virtualzation Seminar Series - Bangalore 2009

Though I am not an IT guy, I attended Vmware's seminar series at Bangalore. Overall there were nothing new at the conference, and in fact reading the virtualization blogs would have been more productive use of the time at the conference.

It was at Leela Palace, one of the top hotels in town, but the conference room settings were a bit disorganized. Though there were many doors to the main hall, you need to enter through a door near the speakers. The rest of the place was packed with chairs. The breakout session was in a pretty small room which was cramped for space as well. It appears that VMware has been able to get good sponsorship from their partners in crime to offer this as a free one.

The morning sessions from Vmware India leaders were particularly dull. There was no passion in the top two people who talked about the market and features. In fact one of them almost said View from Oracle instead of Vmware, and it turns out that they hired her from Oracle recently. Not very impressive on stage at all - for such a hot product and company, they found it difficult to articulate the state of the product and vision, especially the director from Oracle who wasn't at ease with the products at all. Looks like Vmware have hired some typical boring mid-tier executives. Then the usual partner talk from the platinum sponsors followed, nothing really new - yes, we are lock step with VMware! But the HP guy did talk about non-x86 products and platforms to show their other offerings. But surely, VMware is the new king of infrasturcture software!

The talk from F5 on long distance V-motion and Vmware on View were interesting. Otherwise there were nothing new to call for a conference in my opinon.
Posted by Jayadeep(JDP) at 12:21 PM

2 comments:

  1. I hear what you say about the event. Usually such events are well organized in other part of world. I visited few of them outside India. Those are quite informative. I totally agree with your comment regarding Shrimati Ambastha. In fact all the speaker were in so much of rush. The key speaker from vSphare and SRM were in so much of rush to cover the slide. They even forget to share useful information. They invite their testing engineer to speak about product. I gave them this as a feedback as they need to call more techies rather than just making this event for business grow. India is still pacing up for virtualization where as world has accepted this as a mean to save cost.

    Vikash
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  2. Vikash - Yes, even I have seen the difference in quality of events for Indian audience and the US/UK. You are right on the rushing slides and not spending good time on it as well. My takeaway was that I would rather read up some blogs instead of going there and wasting my time listening to the non-expert engineers and non-passionate execs. I have seen this at other MNCs, but didn't expect VMware to follow suit.
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