When is vmworld 2011

Plan your daily agenda with a complete listing of available Sessions, and then build your schedule. Most Sessions are repeated at least once and additional sessions will be added leading up to VMworld, so if your preferred session is currently full, check back. These members of the VMware community — including industry-leading customers, bloggers and VMware employees — conduct and participate in Breakout Sessions.

They'll also be available for Group Discussions and One-on-One meetings throughout the conference. One-on-One Meetings Schedule minute meetings with up to three Knowledge Experts during the conference to delve into topics that relate to your organization.

Registration will open shortly. Group Discussions Led by Knowledge Experts, these informative and interactive discussion groups are a great opportunity for you to gain insight from like-minded colleagues in similar industries. Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis. Hands-on Labs Powered by the VMware cloud and presented via a self-service Lab Cloud portal, you can easily explore how virtualization can make a powerful impact on your organization. Unlike traditional instructor-led Labs, you can choose which topics you want to take and when you want to take them.

Date s :. In addition to putting a sizable dent in Sin City's hotel vacancy rate and bringing together a veritable galaxy of VMware partners, VMworld gave 19, attendees a chance to see what's coming on the product front, straight from the horse's mouth. Actually, there were no actual horses at VMworld, but there were plenty of memorable parts of this year's event, and here CRN offers five notable examples.

The changes VMware made to vSphere 5 licensing in early August have apparently had their intended effect. Maritz did address the vSphere 5 licensing brouhaha in a roundtable with VMware channel partners at the event, in which he described software licensing in general as "a land of unintended consequences".

But based on discussions CRN had with VMware partners, customers have, for the most part, accepted the new licensing model. After hammering a message of cloud computing at its Partner Exchange event in February, VMware shifted gears at VMworld and spent more time focusing on desktop virtualization and its expanding array of end user computing products.

VMware's goal is to make virtual desktops function in a way that's indistinguishable from physical ones. Another new product, Horizon Mobile, uses virtualization to split a work-issued smartphone into personal and company workspaces.

Although much of VMworld was about end user computing, VMware also acknowledged that its executives are spending a great deal of time thinking and talking about cloud computing, and that its marketing messaging carries this unmistakable tinge.

Maritz, who spent 14 years at Microsoft, said at VMworld that vSphere 5 was the first application he's ever been involved with that hit every development milestone and shipped on schedule. That's no mean feat considering that vSphere 5 required more than one million hours of engineering and two million hours of quality assurance testing, according to Maritz.