VMware expects a record 14,000 attendees at VMworld 2008, VMware's fifth annual virtualization conference being held at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas next week, which represents a 30 percent increase over attendance at last year's conference. At VMworld, VMware will unveil next-generation virtualization capabilities and product direction.
VMworld 2008 will feature more than 300 breakout sessions in seven tracks: Automating the Virtual Datacenter; Building Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; Exploring Technology and Architecture; Planning and Operations in the Datacenter; Running Enterprise Applications in Virtual Machines; Virtualization 101; and Virtualizing the Desktop. VMworld will also feature 13 instructor-led and five self-paced labs with nearly 8,000 total lab seats. More than 200 sponsors and exhibitors are supporting the conference, including Platinum Sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp and Symantec who will be delivering keynotes.
