The conference is winding down. Some folks are still finishing their labs and session. However most of the labs are almost over. The Solution Exchange is still buzzing with lots of crowd. The Blogger Lounge is crowded as usual.

There is a plan to have a tweet up at the Blogger Lounge. It is amazing that new technology is giving rise to a whole new terminology of words. Tweeting is now a verb, and we have listed a whole list on this site.

Today seems like the conference really took off. The keynote address by Paul Maritz was great. Comments from an online blogger was - "VMware is the only IT vendor that has been open about its product plans". Pending permision , I will quote his name on this blog.

Buzz around vCloud,.Lot of response over the blogs and tweets. Here are sample of some of the tweets:

latoga: I see future where your vInfrastructure tell you you need more capacity and direct you to vCloud provider to close gap

cjankow: VMware vEVERYTHING, Apple iEVERYTHING Great companies, changing the world, one letter ahead of all the rest.

There seem to be a lot of energy this year both for the sessions and at the solution exchange floor.

I spent this morning at the back stage preparing for one of our slides. Then I got to mee the Wingate team, which was cool since we worked on the vmworld project.

It was a great first day for VMworld 2008. Lots of happy crowd.The  lab sessions had already started, with very good attendance.

For us there were lots of meetings. It started off with a meeting for general session to go through some of the items that may come up during the keynote address.

We also had a meeting with VMworld Europe team to co-ordinate our work for the upcoming VMworld Europe 2009 at Cannes.

The Solution Exchange opened at 5:30 PM and there was already a big crowd at the exhibition hall.

The booths were all set up and all our merchandise had arrived as

expected. The Communities and Blogger Lounge is a great booth.We got to meet a lot of the blogger and community members.  Lots of folks turned out at the community booth to redeem their Virtual Exhibitor contest ticket. A quick meeting with the Event team, headed out to meet the communities members at the V-Bar at Venetian.

Ended the day early for the keynote address.

Hopefully I am able to post picture soon

Reached airport with no hassle. Surprised to see no traffic at the ariport. Passing through security was a breeze. as I was not the "randomly" selected passenger for a more thorough screening. I just downloaded my flight iterniary to my cellphone and avoided printing out the e-ticket.

Waiting at the airport, and configuring my out of office message, confirming keynote address meeting. Hopefully I am able to post pictures later tonite.

Still working on the last minute requests for the key note address. IM with Tony Dunn while we both continue to burn the proverbial mid-night oil.

It has been a busy couple of weeks leading to VMworld, but we have managed to put together all the programs designed around VMwold.com users during the conference.

Next task, is to send tweets.

I intend to write blog and tweet for the next whole week while attending the conference.