This conference coverage spotlight will be your one-stop shop for all the news, case studies and award-winning projects from VMworld Europe 2010 in Copehagen, Denmark.
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 USER AWARDS |
Meet the winners of VMworld Europe 2010
All five winners of the VMworld
Europe 2010 User Awards share their innovative IT projects in detail and describe how they
managed to stand out amongst the rest.
Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Winners slideshow
Find out what user projects were voted to be the best
in numerous cloud computing and virtualisation categories at VMworld Europe 2010.
Virtualised apps to protect hospital data: Best of VMworld Europe DR winner
The University Hospital of Leipzig implemented a better disaster recovery strategy to protect
critical patient data by turning
to virtualisation. The Best of VMworld Europe award winners share how moving critical apps from
server hardware won it best virtualisation for disaster recovery project.
A prison's virtual desktops keeps inmates plugged in: Best of VMworld Europe desktop
virtualisation winner
The Justice Department of Belgium used virtual desktops and a private cloud to give prison inmates
access
to services without sacrificing security and control. This project led to a Best of VMworld
Europe win for desktop virtualisation, and the team shares how they successfully implemented this
new virtualisation project into the prison system.
DNM Technology boosts Dublin power plant with cloud strategy: Best of VMworld Europe private
cloud computing winner
When Dublin Bay Power ran out of data centre space and capacity, it turned to DNM Technology to
help create a private
cloud and disaster recovery strategy. The project won DNM Technology a Best of VMworld Europe
2010 award.
VMware home lab makes the grade at VMworld Europe: Best of VMworld Europe best of show and
best remote-office/home-office virtualisation winner
Simon Gallagher constructed his own VMware
home lab to help do some personal VMware certification training on minimal cost. This virtual
lab tinkering won two best of VMworld Europe 2010 awards.
Bank's server consolidation and virtualisation strategy yields returns: Best of VMworld
Europe virtualisation and server consolidation winner
With VMware
virtualisation and a new SAN architecture, Bankadati extended well beyond hardware
consolidation and toward improved infrastructure management. This server consolidation and
virtualisation strategy won a Best of VMworld Europe 2010 award.
Virtualisation outgrows adolescence: The Best of VMworld Europe User Awards
Virtualisation isn't just about consolidating hardware anymore. The Best of VMworld Europe 2010
User Awards recognise some of the best
virtualisation projects among EU-based shops.
VMware Europe 2010 User Awards preview
In preparation
for the awards ceremony, virtualisation experts and User Awards judges Mike Laverick and Gabrie
van Zanten sat down to discuss what characteristics they were looking for in the winning
projects.
| NEWS |
My VMworld Europe: An expert's adventures in Copenhagen
Mike Laverick gives his
account of VMworld Europe 2010, including the up and downs of the new Copenhagen location and
the quality of this year's attendees.
Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010
This slideshow captures every
exciting moment at VMworld Europe 2010, from CA's circus (and flying monkey!) to Paul Maritz's
keynote.
VMware pushes patchwork quilt approach to data centre automation
VMware has encouraged IT shops to "stitch together" components to achieve
data centre automation and centralised management, but IT pros have to embrace the cultural
shift that comes with such benefits.
VMware Go Pro program launched to lure SMBs to private cloud
VMware worries that small and medium businesses might skip right past its hypervisor to the public
cloud, so it's trying to hook
them early with "semi-cloud" services.
IT managers won't swallow VMware's grand cloud vision whole
VMware has a grand
cloud vision with vCloud Director, but smaller IT shops are still virtualising servers and
sceptical about external providers.
Microsoft-Citrix V-alliance push piggybacks on VMworld Europe
As we all know, VMworld Europe is all about Microsoft and Citrix. Or so the two companies
are making it seem by touting their new
desktop virtualization-focused alliance at the event.
New VMware products add workflow, storage views to management lineup
Two new VMware products plug holes
in the company's management offerings: VMware vCloud Request Manager improves workflow and
software license tracking, while a new version of vCenter CapacityIQ sees disk and I/O
resources.
VMworld Europe 2010: News in brief
Here are all
the news tidbits from this year's VMware conference in Copenhagen, including a new release of
Veeam Software's virtualization management suite.
VMware partners in Europe say recession still looms
VMware's European partners say cloud computing is out, virtual desktop infrastructure is in and the
budget-conscious
are turning to Microsoft in 2011.
You don't have to deliver a cloud by Tuesday
Even if VMworld Europe 2010 provides greater detail on VMware's vCloud Director, many IT shops are
still thinking of cloud
computing as a long-term strategy.
VMworld Europe 2010: Wish list and what not to miss
With VMworld Europe 2010 just about to begin in Copenhagen, several
VMworld attendees share what they hope to gain from the show.
VMworld 2010 predictions
Now that VMworld Europe is on the
heels of VMworld U.S., what should attendees expect -- anything new?
vCloud Director's requirements
VMware vCloud Director, announced at VMworld 2010 in the U.S., was touted as the ultimate tool to
ease IT shops' transition from private to public clouds. But its requirements
and architecture may end up surprising you.
VMworld 2010 U.S. coverage
Although the show may be over, check back in on the best
in VMworld 2010 coverage, including videos, slideshows and news, from
SearchServerVirtualization.com.
| OTHER RESOURCES |
Live footage of the Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards
David Davis, one of the judges for the Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards, filmed Mike
Laverick and TechTarget's Jo Maitland as they hosted
the awards ceremony.
Gabe's Virtual World
Virtualisation expert Gabrie van
Zanten will update his blog daily from VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen. Check back with him
daily for updates on the latest news from the event floor.
Mike Laverick's RTFM Education
Mike Laverick, SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.UK contributor and all-around VMware whiz, will also be
issuing updates from VMworld Europe
2010.
NTPRO.NL with Eric Sloof
NTPRO.NL creates PowerShell scripts to help manage virtualised environments; its creator, Eric
Sloof, is a VMware-certified instructor that will provide insight from Copenhagen.
Yellow Bricks
Duncan Epping is a consulting architect working for VMware's vCloud Services team, and his Yellow
Bricks blog will report live from
VMworld Europe 2010 with coverage that specializes in virtualisation and vCloud.
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This was first published in October 2010
