Less than a week from today, VMworld 2011 will be in full motion, bringing together  20,000 IT professionals looking to learn how to bring together Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and new Applications to improve their IT environment and ultimately their businesses. As a Diamond Sponsor, Cisco will obviously have a huge presence all around the show. Super Sessions, Podcasts, Live Demos, Tweetups, Ask the Experts events, Hands-On Labs, and lots o…

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Tags: #ciscovmw, @ciscoDC, Cisco, VMware, VMworld 2011

VSM's across remote data centers Nothing sits around and gets stale for long at Cisco (outside the break rooms anyway). On the heels of shipping our Nexus 1000V 1.5.2 release earlier this week (which you can download from here), we are ramping up to show the upcoming generation of the virtual switch next week at VMworld in San Francisco. This new major release 2.1 will be going into beta in October, and will represent a quantum leap in eas…

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Tags: ASA 1000V, Cisco ONE, CSR 1000V, Hyper-V, NAM, Nexus 1000v, OpenStack, TrustSec, Virtual Network Management Center, Virtual Security Gateway, virtual switch, VMware, vmworld, VNMC, vPath, vsg, VXLAN

…from the week (lots of interesting in new HTML5 functionality called “AppBlast” for End-User Computing, we dove into the key areas of the week. Jay talked about the evolution of VCE Vblock platforms (from Vblock 0/1/2 to Vblock 300 and 700), as well as the announcements for Vblock FastPath and Vblock GRC solutions. Steve talked about the evolution of virtualization and virtual desktops from technology to a strategy business decisio…

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Tags: automation, Cloud Computing, Vblock, vdi, VMware, VMworld 2011

So, VMworld 2011 is upon us and Irene is bearing down on us. (For those RTP based) Here is a list of a few sessions I think are hot topics at VMworld this year. Performance and Scalability Enhancements in VMware vStorage VMFS 5 A Deep Dive on Virtual Distributed Switching and Cisco Nexus 1000v by Jason Nash — Twitter (@nash_j) (Session Twitter hashtag: #VSP2757) Innovating Together: How Cisco and VMware Collaborate to Build the Cloud by Soni Ji…

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Tags: Cisco, LISP, Nexus 1000v, OTV, SMT, VMDC, vmworld

Its true, there is no rest for the weary.  While we are putting the finishing touches on CiscoLive!, we have already started work on VMworld 2012, which remains one of my favorite shows.  As part of that, we have submitted the following session topics for consideration. If you would like to one of more of these sessions, please head over to VMworld site and vote, vote, vote! Thanks 1988 - From Here to There: VMotion Within and Beyond the Data (…

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Tags: N1KV, virtualization, vmworld