VMworld US 2014 – Keynote Announcements

Summary of announcements from the Keynote session:

  • Third year of implementing the SDDC strategy
  • NSX is gaining industry recognition and adoption
  • vCloud Suite is rebranded as “vRealize” to incorporate vCHS, vSAN, vVols & vSphere
  • VMware’s foray into the Hyper-Converged market: EVO suite (aka “Marvin” & “VMCI”) with Rail (medium enterprise) and Rack (large enterprise)
  • VMware will contribute code to the Open Stack project to support OpenStack APIs
  • “Containers without compromise” – VMware working with Docker and Google on “container” technologies
  • vCloud Governance service for vCloud Air (aka vCHS) customers with a heavy US Government compliance requirement (available September 2014)

The clock is ticking, register for VMworld EU 2014, plan your travel and reserve your sessions: