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title: Vegas, Baby, Vegas
date: 2008-09-16T18:51:53Z
modified: 2008-09-16T18:51:53Z
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  - Conferences & Shows
  - Virtualization
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  - Conferences & Shows
  - Virtualization
  - lasvegas
  - vmware
  - vmworld
timestamp: 2008-09-16T18:51:53Z
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[![McCarran Airport, Las Vegas](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5899264_7ecb0bbc4b.jpg)

](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/5899264/ "McCarran Airport, Las Vegas by sogrady, on Flickr")

I’ll be here in a few hours. The travel gods willing, anyway.

The target of the visit is VMWare’s annual VMWorld show, and I’m looking forward to hearing the state of the VMWare over the next two days. Specifically, I’m interested to gauge reactions to open source competition and jockeying as well as the strategies with respect to cloud computing (which, overly attentive readers might remember, I’ve [been critical of](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/files/wp-mfa-exports/post/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud.md) in the past).

It should be an interesting trip, not least because VMWare is nearing a proverbial crossroads in its existence, in my view. It effectively owns the virtualization space, but the path ahead is uncertain. Competition at the hypervisor layer will be fierce, whether it’s from Microsoft or open source, and the management layer that still differentiates VMWare’s product line may be an attractive target for the IT management encumbents.

All food for thought, I think. Anyway, it should be fun. If you’re looking for me, your contact information as always is [here](http://www.sogrady.org/). The caveat being that with an analyst slate _and_ Corey, Jim and others in town, free time might be tough to come by.