{"id":4081,"date":"2016-08-30T06:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:54:51","slug":"vmware-vmworld-2016-monday-general-session-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/vmware-vmworld-2016-monday-general-session-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; VMworld 2016 &#8211; Monday General Session Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disclaimer: I recently attended\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"VMworld 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vmworld.com\/registration.jspa?SponsorCode=17GINFVXP\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1409e5;\"><strong>VMworld 2016 \u2013 US<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong>.\u00a0 My flights were paid for by myself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\">VMware<\/a>\u00a0provided\u00a0me with a free pass to the conference and various bits of swag, and <a href=\"http:\/\/techfieldday.com\/event\/evmwu16\/\">Tech Field Day<\/a>\u00a0picked up my hotel costs. There is no requirement for me to blog about any of the content presented and I am not compensated in any way for my time at the event.\u00a0 Some materials presented were discussed under NDA and don\u2019t form part of my blog posts, but could influence future discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmworld.com\/registration.jspa?SponsorCode=17GINFVXP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vmworld-2016-hero-US_950.png\" alt=\"vmworld-2016-hero-US_950\" width=\"800\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vmworld-2016-hero-US_950.png 950w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vmworld-2016-hero-US_950-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vmworld-2016-hero-US_950-768x222.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;re the notes from the VMworld 2016 &#8211; General Session &#8211; Monday. And if you want some blurry photos as well &#8211; I&#8217;ve got you covered.<br \/>\n\u201cHow will tomorrow arrive?\u201d<br \/>\nPat Gelsinger (CEO VMware) took the stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger.jpg\" alt=\"Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Gelsinger-1024x572.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>23000 attendees? Facing forward &#8211; with you to the future<\/p>\n<p>21 ppl have attended every VMworld &#8211; lifetime passes for them and spouses<\/p>\n<p>\u201cdigital transformation\u201d. Digital vs traditional business. All business is digital business &#8211; there\u2019s no longer a distinction. So what\u2019s the difference between leaders? Culture and tech strategy.<\/p>\n<p>2006 &#8211; What happened?<\/p>\n<p>Pluto lost it\u2019s status as a planet, and\u00a0Eric Schmidt walked on stage and talked about stuff being \u201cin a cloud somewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>By the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2006 &#8211; 29 million workloads &#8211; 98% traditional IT, 2% (mainly salesforce.com)<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; 80 million workloads &#8211; 7% public cloud, 6% private cloud<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; 160 m workloads, 15% public cloud, 12% private, 73% traditional<\/li>\n<li>2021 &#8211; Predict that 50% in the cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201clet\u2019s click a little bit more into that\u201d &#8211; I&#8217;m really not a fan of that phrase.<\/p>\n<p>2030 &#8211; public cloud becomes more than 50% of workloads.\u00a0\u201cwe have much work to do\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosting in 2016 is a $60 billion market, with an 18% growth rate. There&#8217;s a\u00a0big shift from DIY\u00a0to service provider DCs. Device proliferation, however, is unevenly distributed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IoT is \u201cabout to explode\u201d &#8211; 4.5x devices over the next 5 years to 18 million devices<\/li>\n<li>2019 &#8211; more machine driven than human driven devices connected to the internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As cloud takes root IT becomes more cost effective and more accessible<\/p>\n<p>Which vertical has embraced cloud most aggressively? Counting down from 10 &#8211; 1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Construction;<\/li>\n<li>Professional Services;<\/li>\n<li>Securities and investments;<\/li>\n<li>Insurance;<\/li>\n<li>Transportation;<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing;<\/li>\n<li>Banking;<\/li>\n<li>Resources;<\/li>\n<li>Communications;<\/li>\n<li>Technology vendors (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every function in every industry is embracing cloud &#8211; now calling it\u00a0\u201cself-starting IT\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gel singer states that traditional systems of IT are doomed to fail. It&#8217;s a\u00a0period of traumatic change &#8211; freedom and control.<\/p>\n<p>VMware spoke about the software-defined DC (announced in 2011), with\u00a0NSX and VSAN in the tornado phase of adoption. We then saw some\u00a0Customer Videos from\u00a0Zebra Technologies, iGov, SAIC.<\/p>\n<p>Gel singer then spoke about vCloud Air Service and vCloud Air Network, and the introduction of\u00a0vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager. Clearly there was a need for a\u00a0Cross Cloud Architecture. This was described as &#8220;Like having a teenager you love and like&#8221;. This is an analogy VMware needs to stop using.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind VMware Cloud Foundation and Cross-Cloud Services is to make\u00a0the private cloud easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation.jpg\" alt=\"Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation.jpg 1351w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_CloudFoundation-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gelsinger also announced VMware Cloud Foundation as a service, with\u00a0IBM being the first partner on board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/robert-leblanc-0b4b0485\">Robert Leblanc<\/a> &#8211; SVP Cloud at IBM joins Gelsinger on stage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>higher quality, lower cost, less time, more secure, at a global scale<\/li>\n<li>500+ customers on the platform (including Telstra)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alan Rosa, SVP tech delivery and IT security at Marriott, also joins them on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Some handy Cloud Foundation and Cross-cloud Services articles can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/vmworld-2016-vmware-pushes-hybrid-cloud-and-sddc-with-new-cross-cloud-architecture\/\">VMworld 2016: VMware pushes hybrid cloud and SDDC with new Cross-Cloud Architecture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/radius\/what-vmware-cloud-foundation-on-ibm-cloud-means-for-companies-globally\/?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\">What VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud Means For Companies Globally<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/radius\/vmworld-2016-chris-wolf-recap-day-one\/?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\">VMworld Day 1: VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture Enables Organizations to Thrive in the Cloud Era<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guido Appenzeller (@appenz) then takes the stage.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be in IT in the age of \u201cMega clouds\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Motti Finkelstein from Citibank talks about the need to\u00a0ramp resources and ramp them down when the need arises.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>complexity?<\/li>\n<li>Your apps need to be architected for bursting, need APIs, need to be able to do this across multiple platforms<\/li>\n<li>you have to be able to bifurcate the workloads to the various providers<\/li>\n<li>security and compliance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices.jpg\" alt=\"Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Monday_General_VMware_Cross-cloudServices-1024x613.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Spiegel from Columbia Sportswear comes on stage.<\/p>\n<p>NSX for public cloud workloads<\/p>\n<p>Josh Warsop &#8211; Johnson and Johnson<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBorderless data centre\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Leverage your existing skills to get your infra into the public cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jim Fowler, CIO, GE (Video)<\/p>\n<p>Pat Gelsinger back on stage<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage and secure apps across public and private clouds<\/li>\n<li>Any cloud, any application, any device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Dell takes the stage<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on the ecosystem changing moving forward?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe open ecosystem of VMware is critical to its success\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big priority for us is making private clouds easy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad session. 3.5 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: I recently attended\u00a0VMworld 2016 \u2013 US.\u00a0 My flights were paid for by myself, VMware\u00a0provided\u00a0me with a free pass to the conference and various bits of swag, and Tech Field Day\u00a0picked up my hotel costs. There is no requirement for me to blog about any of the content presented and I am not compensated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,73],"tags":[786,796,908],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","category-vmworld","tag-vmware","tag-vmworld","tag-vmworld2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}