- vSphere will aggregate across all the infrastructure - internal and external services
- Automate through policy
- Drive to be open and interoperable (comment - but is this really open or is it a vision of VMware being omni-present?)
- Talking about the new features in vSphere 4.1
- Pushing vMotion improvements and I/O QoS
- Pushing vSphere Essentials for small companies
- Announcing vCenter client to the iPad and available in the iTunes store later in October
- Have purchased Integrien for collating events and systems performance
- Making comparisons between ease of use of apps and services at home and the rigidity and lack of agility at work
- Strap line is IT as a Service - Optimizing IT Production for Business Consumption
- App store is equivalent to a service catalogue - use directory services to define who can have access to what apps
- Matching service offerings to business requirements should be visible to the consumers along with pay per use pricing - where the app runs should not be visible to the consumer
- vShield re-launched in support of the virtual data centres - partnering with McAfee and others
- vShield Endpoint protects each VM from the hypervisor
- vShield App is a logical firewall
- vShield edge - boundary protection
- Using vShield internally and in your cloud provider enables secure hybrid cloud
- more than 2,000 ISPs are now offering VMware vCloud services and many of them are adding vCloud Director and vShield - eg Colt, Verizon, Terremark
Eddie Durnell on stage - going to demo vCloud
- service catalogue
- hooks up VMs into a service with a simple diagram
- consumers see a virtual datacenter of services available to them, but they have no idea of where those services are being provided
- aggregates vCenters and datastores internally and ISP provider data centres - same look and feel
VMware vFabric
- New "open" apps fabrics - framework for developer, common platform services - includes vmforce and Google App Engine - will allow apps to move across clouds. Spring now but will add Ruby on Rails, PHP etc.
- Making open, but propose more value if run on VMware products
End User Computing
- Optimizing Windows via View 4.5- offline support (and sync back), Mac OS, Win 7, vShield Endpoint compatible
- Claiming sub $500 virtual desktop costs
- Promoting a move from device-centric to user-centric (comment - still, no suprise here)
Noah joings the stage to demo project Horizon (!)
- allows matching of SaaS apps to users and which devices they can use for each app - permits single sign ons via integration with AD (so federated security then)
- VMware View Client is coming for the iPad
- Horizon is re-formatting the app to suit the device, including screen size and integrated sign on
Audience applause is loudest so far - they must be impressed
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