VMBlog gets a demo of Zenoss at vmworld 2014.

VMBlog speaks with Donald Foster of commvault at vmworld 2014.

VMBlog speaks with Gavin McLaughlin at the X-IO Booth during vmworld 2014 and get's a great demo of their VDI Emergency Response Program.

VMBlog speaks with Andrew Hillier at the cirba booth during vmworld 2014 and get's a demo of their product.

VMBlog speaks with Lynn LeBlanc and Oded Haner at vmworld 2014

VMblog had the chance to speak with Tegile ahead of VMworld 2014.  And while at the show, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to meet up with Rob Commins, VP of Marketing at the company.  If you made it out to VMworld this year, hopefully you had a chance to visit their booth.

Tegile is a company pioneering a new generation of affordable feature-rich storage arrays that are dramatically faster, and can store more data than standard arrays.  These guys offer a unique metadata handling technology called IntelliFlash, allowing Tegile arrays to deliver caching and on the fly de-duplication and compression for primary storage.

VMblog had the opportunity to see Unitrends first hand at their booth.  Unitrends, a leader in the IT protection and disaster recovery industry, showcased their unique multi-environment arsenal of backup, archiving and disaster recovery solutions,  providing customers with the technology they need to protect and preserve their physical, virtual, and cloud environments at an affordable price.

VMBlog speaks with a vmturbo customer about how they are using the product and then speaks with Shmuel Kliger, Founder and President of vmturbo.

Companies to Help Enterprises Run and Manage Container-Based Applications on a Common Platform in Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 25, 2014) - Today at VMworld® 2014, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced joint initiatives with Docker, Google and Pivotal to help enterprises run and manage container-based applications on a common platform at scale in private, public and hybrid clouds. The collaboration will enable enterprises to leverage their existing VMware infrastructure as a unified, scalable and secure platform for running and managing enterprise applications whether in a container or a virtual machine or a container within a virtual machine in a platform as a service.

VMware's New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance Goes From Power-On to Virtual Machines in Minutes Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Inspur, Net One Systems Co. and Supermicro Are Expected to Ship VMware EVO: RAIL Starting in Second Half of 2014

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 25, 2014) - Today at VMworld® 2014, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) introduced VMware EVO: RAIL™, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that helps customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of Software-Defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business. VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of hyper-converged infrastructure offerings from VMware.