Diane Greene, President and CEO of VMware, gave the opening keynote address for VMworld 2007, unveiling a host of next-generation products including VMware ESX Server 3i, VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager.
VMworld 2007 general session also included keynotes from Hector de J. Ruiz, Chairman and CEO of AMD; John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco; and Patrick Gelsinger, Senior VP and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group for Intel. In addition, there was a panel keynote on "Reducing the Energy Footprint of Data Centers'" moderated by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine.
Last but not least, Mendel Rosenblum, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, VMware, Inc. wowed the crowd with an in-depth demonstration of the latest technology advancements from VMware, such as "Virtual Machine Streaming", which enables virtual machines to be downloaded in a streaming format, and "Continuous Availability", where a single virtual machine can run in multiple places at the same time.
| Diane Greene (VMware), Patrick Gelsigner (Intel), Hector Ruiz (AMD) |  |
| John Chambers (Cisco), Virtualization Panel (Harvard, EDS, EPA, HSBC Bank) | |
| Mendel Rosenblum (VMware) | |
A total of 4 hours were spent in General Session for keynote addresses- Attendees participated in 2,500 hours of breakout sessions and 80 hours of hands on-labs
- The Solutions Exchange was open for a record 19.5 hours
- More than 175 illustrations were drawn on Chalk Wall by renowned artist Brian Rea
- 26,000 lunches were served to conference attendees
- 33 major announcements were made by VMware partners
- 126 articles were written about the conference, making this the most talked-about VMworld yet.
