1 Month after VMworld: What did it brought me?

It has been more than a month ago since I went to VMworld in Barcelona. You see many blog post about new startups, technology and interesting session. I think that VMworld is more than only the (great) technology stuff you can hear about. Eventually you can download almost all the sessions afterwards. I think the whole event is interesting. This includes talking to vendors, other virtualization fanatics and meeting new people.

Here a sum of what it brought me.

Gifts

Of course you get a lot (and I mean a lot) of gifts. Beside pencils, peppermints, stress balls  and block notes I got the following interesting goodies.

• SimpliVity was so nice to give all vExpert a Raspberry PI. I’m real excited about this small computer and the stuff that you can do with it. Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to decide what to do with it. But in a few weeks it’s Christmas and that is the perfect time to play around with it.
• Nutanix gave all vExpert a personal vExpert glass. Even when I didn’t talk to the right person on VMworld. They contacted me after VMworld through Twitter and asked me for my address.
• PernixData gave me a real nice polo that I can wear during my training classes.

SimpliVity, Nutanix and PernixData thanks! I really appreciate it!

Networking

VMworld is also about networking. I had really nice chats with people from Nexenta, PernixData, Nutanix, VMware. Especially talking to guru’s is great. You can drain so much information from them. Especially when it’s on one of the (vendor) party’s. Here you can meet and talk with a lot of VMware guru’s in a informal way. As you all know, the party’s of VMworld a famous. Probably everybody who went to the Veeam party had a hard time to wake up the next morning -:)

Every year I speak to some people that I only see at VMworld. It’s great to catch up and talk about virtualization or oder stuff. 1 month after VMworld one of those person contacted me if I was interested in a job for job designing a 2500 Horizon View environment with Nutanix servers. Although I haven’t had experience working with Nutanix, VMworld gave me enough knowledge to get me this job and I probably will be playing with Nutanix till the summer of 2015.

As you van see. VMworld is more than only technical session and commercial talks from vendors. The whole event is great and I will go for use next year!