Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Druva to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is Druva.  You will want to see why they bill themselves as "The Next Generation of Cloud Data Protection."  Here's more about the company:

Druva provides cloud data protection and information management, leveraging the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to protect, preserve and discover information - dramatically increasing the availability and visibility of business critical information, while reducing the risk, cost and complexity of managing and protecting it. Druva's award-winning solutions intelligently collect data, and unify backup, disaster recovery, archival and governance capabilities onto a single, optimized data set.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Druva to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add StarWind to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is StarWind.  StarWind HCA is a turn-key hyperconverged platform that unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, with multiple options for hypervisor and Software-Defined Storage into a single manageable layer.  Here's a bit more about the company:

StarWind Software is a pioneer of storage virtualization and provides a unique blend of simplicity, performance and affordability, yet with the ultimate in flexibility. Being a leader in low-entry hyper-converged appliances, StarWind also offers software-only or storage appliance variants of its product, therefore being able to adapt to any organizations data center be that entry-level or large enterprise.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with StarWind to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Liquidware to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is Liquidware.  I've been following them for ages now, always impressed with the technologies they introduce in the EUC space.  At Citrix Synergy, they showed off their new name and logo (changed from Liquidware Labs) and showcased new features and product updates (watch the Liquidware Citrix Synergy video interview).  At VMworld, you won't want to miss what they are doing with FlexApp, so make sure you go visit their booth.  Here's a little background on the company before we begin:

Liquidware is a pioneer in the development of desktop virtualization solutions that complement leading platforms including Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View, and physical Microsoft Windows PCs. The company's Stratusphere solution deliver visibility into desktop environments and support assessment, design, monitoring and diagnostics (Health Checks) of both the desktop user experience and supporting infrastructure. ProfileUnity delivers a universal user profile that can span versions of Windows OS.  In addition, the solution provides advanced features to for granular control of user access to desktop resources, including application and user rights management and context-aware policies. LIquidware FlexApp feature delivers advanced Application Layering to allow admins to centrally manage applications, yet deliver them to users on demand. These solutions are available in an extremely cost-effective bundle called Liquidware Essentials.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and Liquidware to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add HyperGrid to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the companies on VMblog's list this year is HyperGrid.  I really like what they are doing, offering a fully featured public cloud service that's delivered as a full-stack appliance.  Here's more about the company:

HyperGrid is the Enterprise Cloud-as-a-Service leader that simplifies IT for the enterprise by providing consumption based, full stack cloud services on premises. HyperGrid's offering, HyperCloud, uniquely addresses enterprise IT needs by combining IaaS, PaaS, and applications services on premises with security and governance for application management. For DevOps, it delivers lifecycle management and push-button VM, bare metal and container deployments. These capabilities, combined with multi-cloud management and orchestration, all delivered via a consumption model, offer a truly compelling value proposition. 

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with HyperGrid to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

VMworld 2017 is a few weeks away!  And VMworld and its list of sponsors are bringing the party to Las Vegas.  

In addition to all the great education and networking that will take place at VMworld, attendees have also become accustomed to having fun as well.  So far, things are shaping up quite nicely on that front.  There are plenty of opportunities to have a good time, and the list is growing.  

NOTE: Most events require you to take some signup action.  Yes, even if the event is free so that they can get a head count or shut things down once the list grows too big.  These things are first come, first served.

If I'm missing an event, drop me an email or send me a Tweet (@vmblog) and I'll get it added.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add IGEL to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the company's on VMblog's list this year is IGEL.  I was extremely impressed with what they were showing off a few months ago at Citrix Synergy, and I can't wait to circle back with them at VMworld.  Here's a little background on the company before we begin:

IGEL delivers powerful unified endpoint management (UEM) software that is revolutionary in its simplicity and purpose-built for the enterprise. The company's world-leading products, including the IGEL Universal Management Suite, IGEL OS-powered thin and zero clients, and all-in-one thin client solutions, deliver a smart and secure endpoint management experience that shifts granular control of thin and zero client devices from the end user to IT. This enables enterprises to remotely control all thin client devices from a single dashboard interface.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and IGEL to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

The world's largest virtualization event, VMworld, is right around the corner, taking place August 27-31, 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center.  The event is always jam packed with information from the keynotes, to the sessions, to the expo hall which is filled with vendors and solution experts.  But, every year, one of the event's fan favorites is the VMworld Hands-On Labs.  

To find out more ahead of the show, I had the opportunity and pleasure to speak with Pablo Roesch, Director of Technical Marketing for VMware Hands-on Labs at VMware.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Stromasys to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  One of the company's on VMblog's list this year is Stromasys.  I really like what they are doing, enabling customers to move their critical legacy applications to the cloud with their Charon solution.  Here's more about the company:

Stromasys is the pioneer in enterprise-class cross-platform legacy server emulation solutions, providing modern infrastructure for legacy applications running on PDP-11, Digital VAX and Alpha, HP 3000, and SPARC servers. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with sales offices as well as engineering, development and research labs located around the world, Stromasys has implemented cross-­‐platform virtualization solutions to the world's leading companies in over 50 countries.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Stromasys to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

As part of VMblog's live VMworld 2017 coverage coming up next month, we're in the process of working up our schedules to make sure we can see and learn as much as possible when the show kicks off.  VMworld is the leading virtualization event, and there is no shortage of great information coming out of the keynotes, the breakout sessions, the networking and more.  But every year, one of the key places to learn a lot in a short amount of time is the Solutions Expo where valuable vendors from the VMware ecosystem and beyond setup shop to display their wares. 

But with so many vendors exhibiting at VMworld, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?

For years now, I've had the pleasure to speak with the team from Vembu Technologies on different occasions, most recently at a local VMUG.  But next month, I look forward to meeting with them at VMworld to find out what's new.  Not only did they recently refresh their corporate logo, but they also have a new release of their Vembu BDR Suite to talk about.

Vembu is a leading provider of a portfolio of software products and cloud services to small and medium businesses for more than a decade. Vembu's vision is to make software and cloud services very affordable for the hundreds of thousands of small and medium businesses worldwide.  Their flagship offering is the BDR Suite of products meant for on-premises, offsite, cloud backup and disaster recovery across diverse IT environments including physical, virtual, applications and endpoints. Since 2002, Vembu's industry-recognized data protection solutions have delivered tangible value to more than 60,000 businesses worldwide through a network of 4000+ partners (MSPs/VARs & Resellers).

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Vembu to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Had a great time at the recent #VeeamON 2017 event hosted by Veeam Software. Here's a quick video retrospective of some of the scenes and happenings that took place during the event.

And don't forget to watch VMblog's other videos filmed during VeeamON. Learn more about what StarWind Software and DataGravity are doing with Veeam. And make sure to watch our video interviews with select Veeam executives.