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VMworld is a global multi-cloud conference, hosted by VMware. It is the largest multi-cloud-specific event. It has been held in San Diego, California in 2004; Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, and 2018; Los Angeles, California in 2006; and San Francisco, California in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019. Due to the pandemic, it converted to a fully digital event in 2020 and will repeat this format in 2021.
As of 2022 this conference is known as VMware Explore.
There is also an annual VMworld conference that has been held since 2008 in Europe, usually in October or November following the US conference. The European conference has been held in France, Denmark, and Spain.
The conference normally lasts between 3 and 5 days and consists of breakout sessions, panels, exhibit hall, and hands-on labs. The first conference was held in the Fall of 2004 and attracted more than 1600 attendees and over the years has attracted over 20,000 attendees annually.[1]
Sponsors and partners include AWS, Cisco,[2] NetApp,[3] Intel, HPE,[4] Dell EMC,[5] Hitachi, IBM, Sandisk,[6] and Samsung.
- ^ Righi, Carol; James, Janice (2007). User-centered design stories: real-world UCD case files. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-12-370608-9.
- ^ "Cisco and VMware Alliance" (PDF). Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ "NetApp and VMware Virtualization".
- ^ "Hewlett Packard Enterprise & VMware Strategic Alliance".
- ^ "Dell and VMware Alliance" (PDF). Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ "SanDisk Partners with VMware to Design APIs for IO Filtering for Server-side Solid-state Caching". Retrieved April 9, 2015.