In case you hadn't heard yet, another exciting event is happening at VMworld US 2017.  Two of the Godfathers of Virtualization will both be in attendance at this upcoming show.

Bromium co-founders, Ian Pratt and Simon Crosby, are both taking the virtualization pilgrimage to Las Vegas this year.  Ian and Simon are considered Godfathers of Virtualization for their extensive work done in the hypervisor world with the launching of a little project called The Xen Project which had its debut back in 2003.  Xen was originally supported by XenSource which later sold to Citrix in October of 2007.  A few years later, the pair decided to stretch their proverbial entrepreneur legs and leave Citrix to launch a new company called Bromium to address the intersection of security and virtualization. 

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Pivot3 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 Pivot3. Visit them at VMworld and find out more about the company's dynamic hyperconverged solutions.  Pivot3's patented solutions improve data center simplicity and economics by increasing scale-out performance, driving down complexity and cost, saving an extraordinary amount of disk and physical space and ensuring fault tolerance. With Pivot3's unique Quality of Service and Virtualization Management capabilities, customers are able to prioritize data and application performance based on business value. 

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Pivot3 to learn what they have planned for the upcoming VMworld 2017 event.

Key Tips for VMworld 2017 - A Survival Guide

In less than two weeks, somewhere north of 23,000 virtualization and cloud users are expected to converge on the streets of Sin City to take part in the annual virtualization reunion known as VMworld.

VMworld US 2017 begins on Aug. 27th, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV and the show returns to the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center.  The event will feature more than 500 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers, and the expo hall will be packed by more than 200 vendor sponsors and exhibitors.  

As the show is nearly upon us, VMblog would like to send out its "survival guide" for those first time attendees or those individuals who might just want a refresher.  Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your VMworld event a little bit more successful or enjoyable.  

[ Also Read: List of Parties at VMworld 2017 | VMworld 2017 Hands-On Labs - What to Expect ]

Let's begin!

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add PowWow Mobile 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 PowWow Mobile. Visit them at VMworld and find out why they are a leader in enabling enterprises to simplify and extend business apps to mobile, and see first hand how they are redefining the mobile enterprise.

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

PowWow Mobile, the leader in enabling enterprises to simplify and extend business apps to mobile, today announced that it will sponsor and exhibit in the Mobility Zone at VMworld 2017, taking place from August 27 - 31 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas. During the event, PowWow Mobile will showcase how its award-winning rapid mobile app platform, SmartUX, empowers organizations to accelerate the creation and delivery of secure and intelligent mobile apps to support their digital business.

Are you attending VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV?  If so, I invite you to add Turbonomic 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 Turbonomic.  This company helps organizations accelerate their adoption of virtual, cloud, and container deployments for all mission critical applications.  Here's more about the company:

Launched in 2010, Turbonomic delivers a hybrid cloud management platform that enables on-premises and public cloud to self-manage in real-time, thereby assuring performance, lowering cost, and continuously ensuring compliance. The Turbonomic patented decision engine curates workload demand to dynamically control resource supply, maintaining a perpetual desired state of application health.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview with Turbonomic 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 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.