Here is the promised update on my meetings in London - a few days late nonetheless. In the morning I attended a Sun xVM presentation given by Martin Mayhead to the local Solaris User Group. Martin is one of our architects on the xVM Ops Center team. The audience comprised of many customers from the financial sector. So as Martin went over our roadmap in detail and it was interesting to hear the feedback. Broad topics of interest included Disaster recovery, HA support as well as questions around our integration plans with other management frameworks and command line support. I'll try to put together a blog post to address some of the issues and requests raised as I find more time. The good news is that they were generally receptive to Sun's plans to deliver an enterprise-grade virtualization and management solution.
The analyst and press meetings in the afternoon went great as well. Our plans for VirtualBox figured high on the list of questions. I've already blogged about this and will continue to add more detail there. Other topics included Security and Virtual Appliance support. Security is a strong focus for Sun xVM and one that we will be differentiating ourselves on. Interesting to see VMware starting to message this as well with their new VMsafe initiative to be announced at VMworld Europe. I'm sure we'll see more on this going into next week.
Overall, its been a great week here in Europe talking to press and analysts. I am also happy to see Sun xVM Ops Center 1.0 GA. We did some demos to press which were really well received. For the rest of you who'd like to see the product let me leave you for now with the cool commercial for Sun xVM Ops center that the team put together. Click here to view.