I’m working booth #710 at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas this week! Here’s a map showing where we are located in relation to other vendors. I’ll be there at 5 PM tonight (August 29th) when the Expo Hall opens. See you there!
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- I will be working the Brocade kiosk (booth #7) in the Microsoft Private Cloud Partner Pavilion:
Microsoft TechEd, May 16 - 19, 2011 - Private Cloud Partner Pavilion
I’ll be talking about Brocade solutions for Hyper-V, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, Lync, and SCOM.
Don’t miss the Tweetup on Monday, May 16, in the Microsoft Server & Cloud Platform Booth at 12:30pm!
Hope to see you there!
VMworld 2011 Session Voting
May 15
It’s time for VMworld 2011 Session Voting, and the process couldn’t be easier. Just login to vmworld.com (or create an account) and click “Vote Now” on the right side of the page under Session Voting. Find the session name you want and click the Thumbs Up icon. (Click OK to confirm – the icon should turn green to indicate a successful vote!)
Here are the three Brocade sessions:
- 3182 – “Scaling Virtualized Data Centers with Cloud-Optimized Networks” –http://goo.gl/Yy5ja
- 3185 – “Virtual End User Computing with VMware View and Brocade’s VCS Technology” – http://goo.gl/a3aQQ
- 3200 – “Delivering Business Continuity Solution with VMware” –http://goo.gl/PlYzU
You only have until May 18th, so get clicking!
P.S. My friend Tommy Trogden (aka @vTexan) could use your votes as well! Details here.
EMC World 2011 Wrap-up
May 14
Congratulations to Rainer Domke who won Brocade’s big $16,000 give-away at EMC World this year! Brocade Vice President Charlie Leeming was on-hand to present the check.
The big news on Wednesday was the Arrow announcement of an integrated, cloud-optimized solution bundle called CloudTrack that features best-in-class products from EMC, VMware and Brocade. I can’t wait to start talking to EMC resellers about this solution!
I actually had to leave EMC World early this year, so in my stead, I’d like to point you to the following two blog posts for a wrap-up:
- The first one is from Ian Whiting (aka @IanTheBlog), SVP of Worldwide Sales at Brocade, in a blog post titled, “Speed Dating in Sin City.”
- The second is from Emory Epperson and Pavel Radda with their Ethernetfabric.com debut post titled, “Postcard from Vegas – EMC World & Interop 2011.”
See you next year!
EMC World 2011 Day 2 Photos
May 14
I finally got around to uploading my photos from Day 2 to Flickr, check ‘em out here.
The crowd was excellent on Tuesday, with no loss of enthusiasm whatsoever. Booth traffic was heavy. Our “game show” format was a big hit; Ken Newman really knows how to engage the audience. (Nice job as always Ken!)
On this day I was actually able to venture out a little bit and see some of the booths of our partners. It was nice to see Brocade gear in both the Greenplum and Isilon demo racks.
The highlight of the day, for me, was the opportunity to meet Brocade CEO Michael Klayko before his interview by SiliconANGLE on theCube. (You may think it’s funny that I haven’t met our CEO in person, but remember I’m a field guy in Atlanta, I’m never at HQ in San Jose.) Mike did a great job on the interview, he really knocked it out of the park. If you missed it live, the replay is available here. After the interview, I was able to snap this photo of Stuart Miniman, Dave Vellante, and John Furrier posing with Mr. Klayko.
Tuesday night finished up with the Brocade party at the Marquee. The Wes Quave Band provided the entertainment, and a good time was had by all.
EMC World 2011 Day 1 Photos
May 10
My photos from EMC World 2011 Day 1 are now posted on Flickr for your viewing enjoyment! This is just a photo dump, so some pictures are better than others. (Dammit Jim, I’m a blogger, not a photographer!)
Here’s some of the gear we have in our demo rack:
- Brocade 6510 – this is the new 48 port 16 Gb Fibre Channel switch that we just announced last week. (The very same one that our good partner EMC announced that they would be the first to deliver! Thank you EMC!)
- DCX 8510-4 – this is the 4 slot version of Brocade’s new 16Gb Fibre Channel Backbone Director chassis. This was a key element of our cloud-optimized SAN announcement last week.
- VDX 6720 – this is our Ethernet fabric switch featuring Brocade VCS technology. (Named the “Most Important Enterprise IT Product for 2010” by CTO Edge.)
- Brocade MLX – this is the 8 slot variant of our advanced Ethernet router with wire-speed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, and 1 GbE capability.
We have lots of EMC gear in our booth as well, including a Greenplum DCA and the new VNX unified storage platform. We also have a flash based demo showing how Brocade networking works with VMware vMotion and EMC VPLEX to provide Business Continuity. Be sure to stop by and check it out!
Normally I would put up a pre-EMC World blog post, but this year I did that over on EthernetFabric.com, so go over there and check it out!
http://ethernetfabric.com/2011/05/vegas-baby/
Just a quick update from the floor at VMworld, the conference is in full swing and the attendance has been amazing. Over 17,000 registered according to the keynote yesterday.
The big news at the show for us is our announcement of the ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 bundle. Think of it as a “stepping stone” between a fully-licensed ADX1000 (4 cores) and a significantly more expandable chassis-based system. It also gives customers with specific fiber connectivity needs more deployment flexibility, in case the 1000’s all-copper + two 10G ports won’t suffice.
We are demonstrating ADX in our booth, in conjunction with the Application Resource Broker, to show how we can provide automated, policy-based provisioning and de-provisioning of resources based on application performance metrics. Stop by and check it out, it’s very slick technology.
I’d also like to give a quick shout-out to Frank Iglesias of Radiant Systems, winner of the first drawing for Bose headphones from Brocade. We will be giving away a pair of headphones every day at the show, so be sure to enter! Hope to see you there.
Ready For VMworld 2010!
Aug 28
The excitement is in the air, it’s that time of year again — time for VMworld 2010 in San Francisco! I go to a lot of conferences, but I must confess that VMworld is one my favorites. (Second only to EMC World, or maybe a tie.) It’s a great place for technologists to gather, learn and share.
This will be a working conference for me, so I’ll be dividing my time between attending sessions and representing Brocade in booth #1307. We have a great location this year, conveniently located between the VMware booth and the Blogger’s Lounge! As you walk through the Solutions Exchange area, please be sure to stop by and say Hello. Foursquare is going to be a big part of the Social Media experience at VMworld this year, so be sure to “check-in” at our booth when you visit!
We have a lot of activity packed into our 10″ x 20″ space! Ken Newman (@KenNewman) will once again be our Master of Ceremonies, and he will have giveaways for everyone that attends his presentation. We will also have a daily raffle for a set of Bose 3 Noise Cancelling Headphones, as well as our Grand Prize drawing for the ever-popular Apple iPad. (I’d venture to guess that VMware has the highest iPad-to-attendee ratio of any conference I’ve attended, so chances are good to win an iPad from somebody!)
We will be doing several technology demonstrations, but the one I’m most excited about is the Brocade Application Resource Broker (ARB). ARB is a vSphere client plug-in that works in conjunction with Brocade ServerIron ADX to provide on-demand resource provisioning for virtualized infrastructure. Here is a link to a 2 minute web presentation that provides an overview of how it works, but I hope you will stop by to see it in person, it’s really cool technology. Hope to see you there!
Day 3 was another big day at EMC World. It was the last day the Exhibition hall was open, and we went out with a bang. The big press release news of the day was that the Brocade Encryption Switch won the EMC Partner Solution Award for Best New Offering for RSA.
At 2 PM we held the drawing for our big $10,000 give away. Brocade VP Charlie Leeming was on hand as master of ceremonies to announce the winner. Four runners up were awarded iPads before the final drawing for the grand prize. After a couple of false starts due to no-shows, the prize was ultimately awarded to the gentleman in the picture on the left. Pictures from the ceremony, as well as pictures of the runners up can be found on Flickr. Congratulations to all the winners!
At 4:15 PM we had the distinct honor of being interviewed by EMC’s Stuart Miniman, broadcasting live from the Blogger’s Lounge at EMC World. On the hot seat were Doug Ingraham, Brocade Vice President of Product Management, and myself, to talk about Converged Networking and the EMC/Brocade partnership. Mr. Miniman was a gracious host, as always, asking good questions and speaking highly of our 10+ year partnership. The entire interview is available here for replay if you missed it.
At 5PM, Roger Bouchard wrapped up a long day with our final session on the award winning Brocade Encryption Switch. Even though sessions continued on Thursday, this marked the end of the line for us, as exhibitors starting breaking down their booths for shipping. Soon we were all moving to the final evening event, the Beantown Bash at Faneuil Hall.