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There is a new area on the VMTN site dedicated to the Office of the CTO.

This is a new area that Steve Herrod, as well as other members of the Office of the CTO, can blog about upcoming topics and interact directly with those of us that post on VMTN.

Contributors:

• Steve Herrod: VMware CTO and SVP of R&D
• Allwyn Sequeira: VP of Security & Networking Solutions
• Richard McDougall: Application Infrastructure CTO & Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO
• Winston Bumpus: Director of Standards Architecture
• Scott Davis: VMware CTO of End User Computing
• David Hunter: VMware CTO of the Public Sector
• Srinivas Krishnamurti: Senior Director for Mobile Computing
• Josh Simons: CTO of High Performance Computing
• Ben Verghese: VP, Chief Management Architect

There are several areas that each of the members of the Office of the CTO have available to discuss VMware topics from the past, today, and what’s around the corner.

Areas:

• Security
• Cloud Application Architecture
• Open Standards
• End User Computing
• Public Sector
• Emerging Devices
• High Performance Computing
• Management

I started a discussion about the Mobile Virtualization Platform, and got some good news from both Steve Herrod and Srinivas Krishnamurti.  That discussion can be found here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/281926

I’m looking forward to some of the discussions in this VMTN area, and plan on adding the RSS feeds to my news aggregator.

Here’s the link the to the community for the Office of the CTO if you want to see what these leaders have on their mind or start a discussion with them.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/cto.

Steve Herrod took some time to talk to the VMware vExperts at VMworld 2009 about the VMware Go offering.

In this video, Simon Seagrave of Techhead asks Steve Herrod about VMware Go, and how VMware sees it as a tool for SMB’s to manage ESXi.

Note: The audio is quite low.

I have had a little opportunity to use VMware Go. I has some good points and some bad points. It is a little hard to get accustomed to when you are familiar with vCenter Server. Here’s a video from VMware’s site that shows how to use VMware Go.

I’m not sure if VMware Go is going to give VMware a huge success in the SMB market, but as Steve Herrod says in the first video, this is the first version of this product. Maybe 2.0 will be some thing more robust.

Who knows, there was a tweet this past week indicating that a long term vCenter/vSphere client would be written in Adobe Flex. Maybe then all of those VMware customers that have been looking for a client to work in Linux or Mac OSX will rejoice.

In the mean time, I’m going to keep my eye on VMware Go, and see how good it gets. To be honest, I’d like to see a featureless free vCenter Server myself, but I don’t see that happening.