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Complete Report on VMworld US 2017

Ubiquity of multi-cloud approach

By Philippe Nicolas | September 6, 2017 at 2:46 pm

VMworld 2017 US Conference just finished a few days ago and this time it took place in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center after several editions in San Francisco, CA.

The conference got again more 20,000 attendees with more than 200 exhibitors. Impressive show and well organized, tit demonstrates the role of virtualization and especially VMware in the IT industry. The show has become a global IT show that dominates the planet with a few others.

Among various topics pushed by several vendors and top sponsors, we saw of course HCI, container, security, SDS, SDN, cloud, storage, multi-cloud, the convergence of physical, virtual and cloud environments, data management and especially protection with secondary storage.

We think the European conference next week will add the famous General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the program.

In the details, the conference had several interesting areas, of course a huge expo, a HCI, a Mobility, IoT and New Innovator zones for a total of 212 exhibitors.

Obviously storage was very well covered on the expo floor but we have noted some interesting absences, among them Actifio, Arcserve, Avere, DDN, Exagrid, Huawei, Microsoft, Nasuni, Oracle, RedHat, Riverbed, Scale Computing, Seagate, SUSE, Velostrata or Veritas.

Hot in the storage industry, we didn’t see any dedicated NVMe vendors and of course any object storage vendors, no reason to have such presence except perhaps from rich secondary storage players.

We have learned during the show, confirmed later, that Coho Data closed its doors explaining why they were not present.

Also one of the famous past top player in virtualization with several awards won at the show was obviously not present: Atlantis Computing with several assets acquired by Hive-IO. The information we got explained this sad destiny by “too greedy” ambitions by some Atlantis executives. How does a superb technology recognized by its peers and end-users community especially for VDI finally reach a dead-end? By the way, Hive-IO didn’t replace Atlantis at the show.

As the organizer of the conference,
VMware has made 10 announcements in several directions:

The show is also the opportunity to deliver VMworld Best of Show 2017 Awards,
here is the gold list:

  • Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure: Stratoscale.
  • Workload Management and Migration: Densify.
  • Agility and Automation: Puppet.
  • Networking and Virtualization: Forward Networks.
  • Data Protection: Rubrik.
  • Security: Skycure, acquired by Symantec in July 2017.
  • End-user computing, mobility and Desktop Virtualization: Lakeside Software.
  • Judges’ choice disruptive technology: Nvidia Pascal.
  • Judges’ choice start-up spotlight: Appdome.
  • Best of Show: Rubrik.

We also noticed some interesting announcements by several companies,
here is our selection:

We wish to add to this list Cisco as the company has announced just a few days before the conference his intent to acquire Springpath, Inc. for $320 million.

We anticipate a natural extension next week in Barcelona for the European edition of VMworld as the exhibitors are 90% the same.

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