Can’t wait to see all this abstraction translating into a big huge management mess. Think about cloud governance sooner later than later.

@ROIdude yep. Last year term was “Cloud Infrastructure Suite (CIS)”.

@cswolf Same here after I compared conference 1:1s to speed dating last week. …oh no… I just did it again.

Resource abstraction is critical for end to end infrastructure provisioning. And it’s a much better solution than cloud-in-box long term.

There we go. Software defined storage. Storage virtualization was not cool enough for 2012.

VMware average customer has 1 admin every 300 VMs. VMW goal is to reach 10k VMs through automation.

RT @cswolf: Raghuram – VMware Go Pro cloud service for small business will offer cloud backup and recovery in 1Q2013 #vmworld #vmwanalyst

@AndiMann Quite frankly, I don’t see other cloud management vendors doing any better than VMware in securing cloud environments,

RT @aneel: I always forget that the food situation at cons is hopeless.. why does food at scale suck? < +10M

I really miss @richwatson at the #VMworld analyst day.