Embarassingly late, but here's my final update from VMware's Partner
Exchange 2009
The last full day started with Steve Herrod's keynote, where he went over
some of the details of vSphere, including the packages and pricing. If you
like choices you'll have plenty of them real soon. Unfortunately most of
the information wasn't terribly new, but Dr. Herrod always has a way of keeping
the content interesting.
The rest of the day I spent doing more of the same -- attending sessions and
networking with many different people. The highlight of the sessions was
the Architecture Design of View, which didn't give me much in the way of new
knowledge, but prompted a lot of great thoughts for service delivery and
presentations.
On Friday, we got to attend a Cisco boot camp that introduced the Nexus
1000v. It provided a lot of great information, but didn't provide the
hands on opportunity I was hoping for. It was well worth staying another
half day for though. Then it was finally time to head home.
All in all, Partner Exchange was a great opportunity I'm glad I didn't miss
out on. I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible and all the
great people I met up with, both old VMWorld friends and new acquaintances.