Next week's VMworld event in San Francisco will be getting a lot of attention for a lot of different reasons. Some will just be evaluating the virtues of virtualization for the first time, while others will be veterans of virtualization and seeking to push the envelope of this technology.
Speaking personally, I intend to seek out a more nuanced and subtle group who will be present at the conference. Virtualization is the building block of both managed services and cloud computing. In and of itself, virtualization means very little for the average business owner. They may have heard the term before but it doesn't really solve any problems or advance their businesses in any meaningful way. But, when you use virtualization to create solutions like private cloud, or hosted applications (aka SaaS), many answers become available for businesses looking for new ways to decrease complexity and increase the performance of their IT resources.
I think virtualization is very well known within the channel. Next week will convince me (or not) that virtualization is an ingredient in a larger recipe. MSPs and cloud providers need to learn how to take virtualization and incorporate it into an easy to understand solution for businesses. For me, this is what I'll be looking out for next week.
This is my first VMworld event so I anticipating an exciting time at the Moscone center. If you are planning on being at the event and would like to meet up, please let me know.
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