We’d like to thank the following sponsors for helping us off the ground this year at VMworld 2010’s Warm Up Party as a Service:

Veeam

Veeam Software, a VMware Technology Alliance Premier partner, helps organizations safeguard their investment in virtual infrastructure by providing innovative systems management software designed to reduce costs, increase productivity and mitigate risk. Veeam is an international company with U.S. headquarters in Columbus, Ohio and European headquarters in London, UK.

Trainsignal

Train Signal is the global leader in professional computer training and one of Inc Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies. Their video training products include Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, and VMware. Included in their product lineup is the best selling video training product for VMware ESX by vExpert David Davis. If you’re looking to get great vmware training, here’s the place to do it.

Nexenta

Nexenta, a VMware Technology Alliance Premier partner, is the developer of the leading OpenStorage solution NexentaStor. NexentaStor is a fully featured NAS/SAN solution based upon the ZFS file system; the VM Data Center module for NexentaStor simplifies the management of storage and data replication for virtualized environments.

Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL) is the market leader in virtual desktop and application assessments and brings a completely new and innovative approach to accelerating the adoption and consumption of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). Being described by analysts and the industry as providing the “on ramp to VDI”, LWL provides a combination of software, professional services and ITIL methodologies to intelligently assess desktop and application viability for virtualization.

HyperIP

HyperIP software delivers WAN Optimization for data replication, cloud storage, iSCSI replication, and other large IPstorage and file transfer applications. Deploying HyperIP for replication, backup, recovery and data center migrations provides our partners and customers the confidence that their valuable information will be protected and moved on-time, every time.

10zig

10ZiG Thin Clients optimized for virtual desktops offer VDI clients preinstalled, support for PCoIP and combine security, high performance, and flexibility to offer a complete desktop experience. Available in a wide-range of hardware options including Wireless Tablets, All-in-Ones, and small form factor units and a choice between CE.Net, Linux, XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded Standard, they’re sure to have a solution to fit your thin client needs. Get some.

Thanks!

A big thanks to everyone involved in supporting this effort, and to our sponsors for helping support a great community event providing a great way for weary travelers to get ready for an exciting week at VMworld 2010!

Feel free to contact me with questions / comments.

-Theron