We’ve been covering the VMworld 2011 since the event started on August 29^th.  We even had a live coverage via #theCube.  The said event was hosted by our very own John Furrier, CEO and Founder of SiliconAngle together with Dave Vellante, CEO and founder of Wikibon.  VMworld is an annual conference for IT professionals, focusing on virtual server environments, put on by VMware.

VMworld 2011 attracted a record number of more than 19,000 customers, partners, press and analysts, and 250 sponsors and exhibitors signifying major interest from the IT industry in cloud computing and the next generation of IT. With the theme of “Your Cloud. Own it,” VMworld 2011 featured more than 175 unique breakout sessions across 10 tracks from companies and customers driving innovation in the virtualization and cloud industry.

There were a lot of new announcements by VMware throughout the course of the week.  To name a few, there was Project AppBlast and Project Octopus, both very interesting. AppBlast enables your Windows Mac, Linux application to be presented on any HTML 5 and what they showed us looked very similar to what you would see from a Citrix XenApp application. The difference: AppBlast will be embedded in a browser, with no plug-in needed.

Another product in the works is Horizon Mobile.  This is a technology that enables users to have completely separate work and personal environments on a single mobile device running Google’s Android operating system. LG, Samsung and other smart-phone and tablet manufacturers are expected to make Horizon Mobile available “in the coming months,” according to VMware.

Horizon is being touted as a universal broker that can connect VMware View, Horizon Mobile and Project Octopus. The idea here is, now that we have all these solutions, how do we bridge the gap between them?  How do we connect them so they make sense, integrate and work together rather than being separate islands?  The answer is the universal broker that would allow the same user logging into View to get their files and would allow that same user to also get their files on their mobile devices using Octopus.

VXLAN is a new IETF submitted by VMware, Cisco and others, which is meant to make networking virtualization aware by separation of location, and the identity of IP-addressing. VMware has done lots of effort to improve compute and storage, but does not focus yet on making networking more suitable for virtualization. VXLAN enables a virtual machine to keep its IP-configuration when it is moved to another datacenter/network.

Moreover, Dell and VMware jointly announced the availability of the Dell Cloud based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services designed to provide a seamless multi-tenant environment for running virtual systems.  The Dell vCloud data center services will provide options for public laaS hosted in a secure Dell data center.

Same thing also goes for NetApp and VMware, who also announced a joint cloud solution. VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp enables organization to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency without needing to rip and replace their existing infrastructure.

During the conference, EMC also introduced the next generation EMC Virtual Storage Integrator 5.0.  VSI 5 is a free VMware vCenter plug-in that lets IT achieve simple and efficient data center operations and accelerate their trip into the cloud.