Podcast: What's Hot at VMworld 2012

By James Alan Miller August 30, 2012 12:50 AM

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Julio Urquidi

Julio Urquidi is the Technical Editor at Tom's IT Pro. Previously, he spent 17 years in healthcare-related enterprise IT. Julio’s most recent responsibilities centered around virtualization, but he is also well-versed in Linux, Windows and systems administration. Specializing in articles that help small companies with limited budgets leverage technology, he has been a contributing editor to Tom's Hardware.

Tom's IT Pro Tech Editor answers questions about the site and this week's VMworld virtualization conference in a video podcast from the show floor.

Julio Urquidi, Tom's IT Pro's Technical Editor and a veteran IT professional, is making the rounds at VMworld 2012 this week. Taking place in San Francisco, the trade show is the conference to attend to discover the latest in virtualization and cloud computing technologies.

Yesterday, while meeting with vendors on the exhibit floor, Julio started chatting with vKernel about Tom’s IT Pro when he was asked to take part in a podcast. He happily obliged.

In the podcast (see below), Julio discusses one of the main differentiators of Tom's IT Pro, our intention to provide hands-on techs with insight into aspects of IT they usually aren't exposed to when ensconced behind they’re individual cubicle walls. Julio also comments on what he thought was the a big take-away from the keynotes, and addresses VMware's show announcement that its Mobile Virtual Phone (MVP) platform, Horizon Mobile, will soon become available for iOS devices. Currently, MVP works with select Android mobile device models.

As for what vendors Julio plans to visit during the remainder of VMworld: Well, there's a couple of hundred booths to check out; chief among them, VMware, who's show presences can't be missed, of course.

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James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.