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- 8:10: Paul talks about his personal history in the computing industry and watching changes in the landscape over the last thirty years
- 8:21: "As we go forward in 2008, obviously the big buzzword is Cloud "
- "We are moving fundamentally away ffrom a device centric world to a world that is application, information, and people centric."
- "[...] increasingly think of infrastructure as a giant computer in which applications can be provisioned in a more manageable scalable and extensible way."
- 8:23: VMWare new initiatives: Virtual Datacenter OS, vCloud Initiative, vClient Initiative
- 8:26: "How can we make decisions about forward provisioning infrastructure without having to predict exactly what's going to happen with your application load on a daily, monthly, yearly basis?"
- 8:27: "A new layer of software is coming to existence. There will be a new layer of abstraction in the data center. An elastic, self managing, self healing software substrate, a Virtual Datacenter Operating System."
- 8:28: Hardware partner announcement: Intel has introduced Xeon 7400 with support for vMotion
- 8:31: "If you look at a framework like Ruby on Rails, the traditional operating system has all but disappeared. I think we'll see a lot of experimentation in that area. We'll see the operating system deconstructed and tailored more specifically to the applications."
- 8:42: "We are working on the vCloud initiative,will allow, a set of services that will allow you to distribute your application across resources inside the firewall and outside the firewall."
- vCloud Demo: VMWare demos an elastic SLA policy engine that is able to use customer metrics like a 4-second response time to provision resources in the cloud on the fly to deal with increasing demand.
- 8:53: Paul talks about user environments living across devices. vClient initiative, again the focus is on customers: every client will want their custom OS, application stack, etc. Demo of laptop provisioning using virtualization technology on a USB key.
VMWare mission summary:
Allowing our customers to become increasingly cloud-like in their internal operations. Using infrastructure much more efficiently and provision applications flexibly. Allow you to federate internal resources with external cloud resources. Work to solve the desktop dilemma with technologies for customer-centric provisioning of OS and application stacks.
