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Liem Nguyen
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by Liem Nguyen, Director of Corporate Communications — September 02, 2010
All the buzz at VMworld 2010 has been around virtualization. I had a chance to catch up with Bruce Kornfeld, VP of business development and alliances from Compellent and David West, VP of marketing and business development from CommVault to talk about the partnership between the two companies, how the two technologies work together, data storage efficiencies, and data management and protection.
It wasn’t all work and no play for Compellent and CommVault at VMworld 2010. The two companies hosted customers and prospects at Tres Agaves restaurant on Tuesday, August 31 to unwind after a long day at the show and enjoy some great food and great company.
Watch the video to learn more about the way Compellent and CommVault technologies work together.
by Liem Nguyen, Director of Corporate Communications — September 01, 2010
We are very excited to have Heineken Netherlands join us at VMworld 2010, particularly for the press conference at the VMware Social Media and Blogger’s Lounge in Moscone South at 9:15 AM PST and the SuperSession today at 3:00 PM in Room #134 in Moscone North. Being the number one brewer in Europe with more than 200 regional, local and specialty beers and ciders, it’s no surprise that Heineken Netherlands generates a lot of data. What you may not know is that not too long ago Heineken Netherlands wanted to upgrade their VMware infrastructure but was faced with capacity, performance and reporting issues with their HP EVA storage systems. After evaluating other vendors they landed on Compellent Fluid Data for our automated tiered storage with enterprise SSD, scalable and persistent hardware, and, of course, the seamless integration with VMware. Together, Compellent and VMware have increased performance for Heineken Netherlands by as much as 300 percent and reduced disk requirements significantly using tiers of SSD, FC and SATA. In the future, Heineken Netherlands will be able to save even more money adding SATA disks almost exclusively.
As part of the team preparing for the press conference and SuperSession, it’s been a pleasure working with the IT folks from Heineken Netherlands and talking with them about the real-world problems they were faced with and how they went about addressing those enterprise challenges. I remembered how we joked about the connection between Fluid Data and enjoying your fluids in moderation, but in the end, the Heineken Netherlands IT story is really about better enterprise performance and storage efficiency since they’ve introduced Compellent into their VMware environment.
Here are additional press conference details:
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Who: Phil Soran (CEO of Compellent), Tod Nielsen (COO of VMware), Lucien de Konink and Mike Robers (Heineken Netherlands)
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When: Wednesday, September 1 from 9:15 AM to 9:45 AM (PST)
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Where: VMware Social Media and Blogger’s Lounge, Moscone South
Can’t make it to the press conference? Or even worse…couldn’t make it to VMworld? No problem. Tune in to find out more and watch it streaming live at http://www.SiliconAngle.TV starting at 9:15 AM PST
SuperSession details:
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Who: Bruce Kornfeld (VP of Alliance for Compellent), Parag Patel (VP of Global Alliances for VMware), Lucien de Konink and Mike Robers (Heineken Netherlands)
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When: Wednesday, September 1 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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Where: Room #134
by Liem Nguyen, Director of Corporate Communications — August 31, 2010
VMworld 2010 is bigger than ever, with upwards of 12,000 – 15,000 people expected to converge on the Moscone this week. The registration lines snaked around several times yet moved along at a brisk pace thanks to efficiency of the event organizers. The blogger lounge has been upgraded to include live Internet streaming of VMworld TV and daily newscasts. I spent some time there yesterday and for me personally it was great meeting folks I’ve been following on Twitter or talking to on blogs (including the Roger Lund blog) over the past year or so.
While the VMware team really has perfected the art of running an event, sessions have been filled to capacity and some people haven’t been able to get into them. Before you head out to the Moscone check out this interview I did with Sean Clark, vExpert, consultant and blogger who is otherwise known as @vseanclark. For all you Twitter fanatics, you’ll appreciate the video angle that cuts off the top of Sean’s head, since most of you probably wouldn’t recognize him without his pith helmet. This year was Sean’s fifth VMworld so you’ll be wise to listen to his 3 tips on maximizing your time at VMworld: get to sessions early, start impromptu tweetups while in line, and head to hands-on labs to learn at your own pace. And his bonus tip: come see us at the Compellent booth 1022!
Do you have any additional tips on getting the most out of VMworld 2010? Feel free to leave us a comment.