Mark Roddis

So that’s it. Over until we all meet in Las Vegas next year but as I sit here in Terminal 1 at San Francisco airport waiting to go home lets think about what we saw this year.

After all I did see some things that really did excite me and I honestly think that we are going to see some HUGE changes in our industry over the next year or 2 and VMworld gave us a sneak peak at where things are going. (more…)

Well last year the VMworld party was the talk of the planet for months afterwards. This was going to take some beating.

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So I am no in San Francisco and have just about got over the 10 hour flight from Heathrow. The flight itself was as good as a 10 hour flight can be and I must admit, I was quite impressed by just how much leg room I got in BAs World Traveler Plus cabin.

The view from the 35th floor in the Hilton is looking fine with views of Twin Peaks and the Golden Gate Bridge

So onto the reason I am here.

VMware have announced their new ESX 3i product which is a striped down hypervisor that can run on a USB jump drive as it is less than 32MB in size.

I can see how this could make disk-less ESX servers a reality and am keen to see how the vendors play this one out although in theory you can load this onto any USB jump drive and boot it on any server.

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So this time tomorrow I will be in a hotel room at Heathrow getting a good nights sleep before what is going to be a long journey.

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So yet again those slackers on the London Underground have called a strike. They have managed to do what the 7/7 bombers failed to do and disrupt the lives of those living and working in London.

These are the workers who get a short working week (35 hours), large wages (£35k plus), more holidays than a school teacher (37 days), discounted travel for themselves and their families AND a final salary pension but are still not happy.

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