After 3 days at VMworld I have not yet had enough of virtualization, or as a friend of my spells it virtualisation. Taking my own advice I went to the important security sessions and went out on the show floor.
There was an impressive array of vendors with some of the smaller booths providing real innovation. My favorite picks are:
Security: Reflex Technologies, with Catbird being a very close second. Reflex has a pretty impressive toolsuite.
Management: Hyper9's product offering was really impressive for large installations. The drill down capability was outstanding.
Compliancy: vmSight is still one of the best.
Backup: Not a company but the big talk was on data deduplication, or saving storage space by combining like blocks on the device.
Hardware: I really liked Xiotech, an independent company stated they have amazing support. I have been told this by others as well. If you can afford it, it's well worth the look.
Announcements: Distributed Virtual Switch is by far the best thing announced followed by the Cisco Nexus 1000V which makes use of this for VMware's future product VDC-OS.
Overall: Putting faces to handles to names in the VMTN forum.
I will delve more into each of these over the next several weeks but there are the highlights.
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It was really great meeting
It was really great meeting you in person finally.I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for your talents and contributions to the virtualization environment.
I hope to see you again soon.
Jase
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We have been looking at the Xiotech storage solutions, and frankly, it seems kind of sketchy.Why? Well, one reason is the way their drive packs are configured, if you have drive failure, You must wait to replace the whole pack, not a individual drive, you can not replace the drive pack until you run out of reserved space. (ISE Technology) What will this do to performance? It seems the vendor doesn't want to share this information, and if I am going to rely on this for a SMB setting, it seems risky.
In my book, this would be fine in a large data center, where you need to cut down on drive replacements.
My 2 cents.
Roger Lund