Day Two at VMworld means “ooh, shiny”
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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Day Twos at VMworlds are always the most entertaining. You see, on Day One not only is there so much news I run around alternating between stressed and bored (hey, some partnership announcements are pretty dull, okay?) but it kicks off with a keynote from CEO Paul Maritz.
As a speaker, Maritz is just fine. He often sounds on the verge of laughing, which I like, but he also ends up presenting the most boring stuff (see partnership announcements above).
But Day Two gets the Tech Keynote from CTO Stephen Herrod. As Herrod noted this morning, that means he gets to talk about the cool stuff and be a bit more light hearted. It’s not often you get to laugh in conference keynote speeches (unless its Steve Ballmer, and then that’s usually nervous laughter) but Herrod is actually pretty funny, and he gets to geek out.
So while Martiz droned on yesterday about clouds and partnerships and zzzzzzzzz oaksfdjawekns *snore* — wait, sorry, I fell asleep there — Herrod gets to talk about mobile virtualisation and long-distance vMotions and self-destructing virtual machines. (Okay, I admit that might be boring to some, but hey, you are reading IT PRO here.)
Anyway, that long introduction is mostly to acknowledge that VMware has finally — a whole, long day in — started talking about client. Sure, clouds are interesting to some, but virtualising mobile phones is what I find most intriguing.
While Herrod and his VMware pals admitted virtualised mobile phones are some way off, they also suggested at least one manufacturer is talking about putting a hypervisor on its handset. Why is this cool? It means you can run two OSes at once, and even run one platform’s apps without running that plaform — like Android apps on an iPhone. Okay, that’s not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever, but it’s an intriguing theory.
Some of my fellow journos and analysts scoffed at the idea. They’re not wrong — why would a handset maker or an operator ditch cash on such a project — but they’re missing the point of day two: shiny, exciting tech.
Business cases are for day one. Day two is about “ooh, shiny” — no matter how unlikely it is to go commerical.
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