After just returning from VMworld, and riding the wave of energy which a conference can generate, I’m sad to report that the upcoming Virtualization Congress 2008 Event hosted by Virtualization.info has been canceled.
Now, the Why?
Why, would an event, backed by the biggest names in the virtualization industry not happen?
Virtualization is like an organism, going through it’s stages of life, it is starting to mature, some might argue it is in the high school days, others might think that it is as far along as attending university, but most would agree it isn’t to the point of generating any offspring yet, but I think in the near future, especially with desktop virtualization, there will be offspring.
Now how does this explain why a conference got cancelled? After reading through the list of sessions, I think the agenda missed the boat. What I saw, heard, read about was that the people in the trenches want to know “how”, how to implement, how to setup, how to design their solutions with virtualization technology. Virtualization has become a simple idea to sell to management, lets take ever server we have now, and replace them with 1/4 as many, not a hard pitch to do. But if the guys in the server room don’t know how, then it won’t happen. I think companies who are looking at virtualizing for the first time, or those who have just recently switch to a virtual data center really want to send their employees to hands on training, live demos, and product tours, not sales pitches and promises of solutions which will be available down the road.
If anyone wants to talk about setting up a hands on Cross Platform - Cross Solution bootcamp for 2009 let me know, because I’m interested. I bet it would be filled up instantly with people looking to get hands on, 1 on 1 and instructor lead training on basic virtualization tools and techniques which they can instantly apply to their day to day toolkit.
No related posts
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 am
I’m so sad to see this canceled. I think it was a great idea and I think the folks at virtualization.info did an amazing job setting it up and it is truly our loss for it being canceled. Next year I hope they try again and I hope EVERYONE attends.. Tell them you want technical 1 on 1 if that is what you want. I liked it the way it was… but then that is just me. All in all, the folks at virtualization.info should be thanked for trying. They did an awesome job. I’m very sad.
Doug
September 24th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I’m so sorry you had to cancel the conference. Hopefully you’ll take up the charge and try again soon. I would definitely agree though - people want to know the “how”. I heard from many people at VMworld that they wanted more “how” sessions and less vendor sessions doing marketing pitches. Hopefully this leads you down the path to a stellar conference in the future.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Never pleasant to have to cancel an event. IT Virtualization Live being held in Orlando in December will have plenty of how to content. I would encourage everyone to check out our website for all the details www.itvirtualizationlive.com
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 am
[…] Virtualization.info Virtualization Congress 2008 Cancelled […]
December 19th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Funny now the IT Virtualization Live conference has been delayed from December 2007 to June 2009! Not a good time for virtualization conferences… Their websites says:
“Due to unprecedented economic conditions and feedback from supplier and attendee companies, we have changed the dates of the ITVirtualizationLive conference at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Resort in Orlando, Florida from December 9-11, 2008 to early June 2009. We will announce specific dates shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience.”