VMworld 2010 is at its last day and VMware decided to place the second keynote today. The second keynote is usually more technical than the first one, but as virtualization.info readers know, the first keynote already was a split between vision/strategy and technology/roadmap , with both Paul Maritz, CEO, and Dr. Stephen Herrod, CTO and SVP of R&D on stage.  So today it will be interesting to see what will be presented. Rick Jackson, CMO, is on stage to introduce the day. The theme is “innovation”. Apparently, VMware wants to use today to reinforce its image as leading innovator. To do so it invited three guest speakers to show some cutting-edge technologies. The first one is Pranav Mistry , inventor of SixthSense. SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that leverages a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant to augment reality on any object around users. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and other physical objects. A video of the prototype in use is shown. It’s almost exactly the futuristic interface seen in the Minority Report movie and even more than that. A lot of companies are working to bring to the market that interface, but Mistry’s project seems well beyond that. The second guest is Natan Liner , Intel Fellow and part of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the M.I.T. Media Lab. He introduces project LuminAR, a robotic lamp that combines a pico-projector, camera, and wireless computer in a compact form factor. This self-contained system enables users with just-in-time projected information and a gestural user interface, and it can be screwed into standard light fixtures everywhere. The long-term idea is to provide augmented reality through a new computer form fact that can fits into any standard lamp arm providing 120V AC. The third guest is Tan Le, Cofounder of Emotiv Systems . The company is working on a direct interface for the brain called Emotiv. Dr. Stephen Herrod is invited on stage to demonstrate how the interface, which only costs a few hundred dollars, works. Now the guests are on a very short panel with Jackson about the way we could rethink computing. Jackson closes the keynote with a simple message: innovators think out of the box and VMware adopters have been innovators. This is a rather subtle way to leverage the human emotions: VMware first inspired the audience with futuristic projects, then it suggested that virtualization has been and still is similarly innovative, and finally implied that anybody can be an innovator believing in its products and adopting them. Overall,  this has been one of the most interesting VMworld ever in the last few years, and VMware deserves some credit for the incredible improvement shown in messaging. Execution is an entirely different story that can’t be proven on stage but will be seen on the field in the next few months. Starting tomorrow, virtualization.info (and cloudcomputing.info) will restart usual coverage of the industry. There are more than 100 announcements that have been released during this week, so expect a lot of information to come. Labels: Events , VMware

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Wyse Technology has announced the upcoming availability of Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 can be purchased from the iTunes App Store. Wyse PocketCloud is a remote desktop application that has been extremely successful in the iTunes app marketplace, and is ranked among the top 10 business applications since it was introduced at VMworld 2009. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Quest Software today announced that vFoglight, its solution for virtualization monitoring and capacity planning, will support Microsoft Hyper-V and provide increased automation of virtual infrastructures with vFoglight 6.5, currently planned for release in Q4 2010. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced that its Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard version 1.1 has been adopted as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) International Committee for Information Technology Standards… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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HyTrust today announced it has added interoperability with the RSA enVision platform, a leading 3-in-1 log management solution for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) from RSA, The Security Division of EMC. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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VMware at VMworld outlined its vision for the future of end-user computing with new products and services to help organizations evolve their legacy desktop computing environments to a more modern, user-centric application and data delivery model. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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At VMworld 2010, BlueLock, a provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announced it is partnering with VMware to announce the beta availability of a new enterprise-class cloud service, VMware vCloud Datacenter Service in North America. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Virtual Computer has announced NxTop 3.0; a suite of products for large enterprises, businesses, and consumers. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Here we go again. As usual virtualization.info is at the VMworld conference to live cover the keynotes and any other major announcement released by VMware during the event. Paul Maritz, CEO, is today’s keynote speaker. He will speak in front of 17,000 attendees, as Rick Jackson, CMO, confirmed on stage. Is VMworld on track to compete against the Oracle OpenWorld in terms of audience? Before Maritz performance, VMware starts with a funny video that tries to describe what cloud computing is without using any technical jargon. The choice demonstrates how early-stage this market still is considered. Martiz on stage. He reports that in 2010 the number of virtual machines surpasses for the first time the number of physical servers deployed (more than 10M). He also reports that VMware has over 25,000 partners and over 50,000 VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) worldwide. Maritz says that VMware is committed to innovate on automation and management to decrease OpEx. Seeing that the primary focus is on automation is very positive: datacenter orchestration has been overlooked for too much time. He also says that innovation should also focus on the way infrastructure resources should be purchased. Now Maritz is making a case for the SpringSource acquisition (and all the others related to that): are legacy apps on new infrastructure enough? VMware believes that the world embracing cloud computing would move on more sophisticated, next generation web applications , and this implies the need for a new application platform, made of management tools (Hyperic), open frameworks (Spring) and common services (APIs). In this new world the challenge is to grant end user access though a number of different new devices, while managing them as part of the enterprise infrastructure. So VMware sees the need for a new stack, made of three pieces: a new infrastructure, a new application platform and a new end user access. The message this year is extremely mature, and it definitively presents an articulated new mission. VMware is working to go well beyond its role as a virtualization player, and it’s doing a good job at communicating it during this keynote. Martiz leaves the stage to Dr. Stephen Herrod , CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D at VMware. He starts with a recap of the innovations introduced in vSphere 4.1, with a first focus on policy driven SLAs through Storage and Network I/O Controls. Herrod announces on stage the VMware’s acquisition of a company called Integrien . Integrien flagship product, Alive , is a real-time performance analytics solution that analyzes and correlates data across the monitored IT infrastructure. It will be interesting to see how Alive will integrate with the (many) other monitoring solutions VMware is offering today (including the SpringSource Hyperic). Herrod also announces the availability of vCloud Director 1.0 (formerly vCloud Service Director). Interestingly, VMware places this new product side by side with vSphere and vCenter as key tiers of the new infrastructure described by Maritz at the beginning of the keynote. VMware has another three new products to announce, all about security and all available today: vShield Endpoint 1.0 , vShield App 1.0 and vShield Edge 1.0 . vShield has been placed inside the new infrastructure as its fourth and last tier. Another interesting aspect of this keynote is that there’s no mention of “virtual machines”. The entire discussion is focused on “applications”. Now Herrod announces a thing called vFabric , the cloud application platform made with SpringSource, GemStone and other technologies acquired in the last year by VMware. vFabric offers application management, data management, messaging, dynamic load balancing and app server. Last but not least, Herrod announces the (expected) availability of VMware View 4.5 . It introduces support for Microsoft Windows 7, the offline VDI capability (through a type-2 VMM), a client for Apple Mac OS X and support for vSphere 4.1.   This page will be frequently updated to report about his speech. Keep refreshing! Labels: Events , VMware

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Just before the VMworld 2010 opening keynote, cloudcomputing.info received a couple of confirmations that VMware is about to rename its not-yet-launched vCloud Service Director (vCSD) in just vCloud Director. This would explain why the VMworld content catalog doesn’t show anymore the breakout sessions about vCSD. On top of that, the company may be preparing a special bundle to launch version 1.0, including vCenter Chargeback and the new vShield Edge with it. Our source reports that the bundle will feature the new per-VM licensing , starting with a 25 VMs pack. The platform should be available on Sep. 1st. Labels: Chargeback , IaaS , Platform Management , Security , VMware

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