The Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA has set the stage for VMworld 2013 which will be held on August 25-29, 2013.

We’re covering this year’s event live from theCUBE, our flagship broadcast production where we extract the signal from the noise.  You’ll get exclusive content including interviews from key executives and industry leaders, as well as analysis from the sector’s best and brightest.  Be sure to tune in right here at SiliconANGLE.com, or SiliconANGLE.tv for continuous coverage.  Archived shows will be published daily on our YouTube Channel (see here).

In our three days of live video coverage from VMworld we’ll have exclusive segments with high profile guests such as VMware CEO Gelsinger, VMware President and COO Eschenbach, VMware Chief Architect of Networking Martin Casado, VMware Chief Strategist for Storage Chuck Hollis, the new GM for EUC Sanjay Poonen, GM of Hybrin Cloud Services BU Bill Fathers and, and GM of Cloud Management BU Ramin Sayar, lined up for interviews.

Guests come from different sectors in the industry to discuss solutions and latest technology involved in multi-hypervisor and the cloud. 

Check out SiliconANGLE.tv for theCube’s full coverage at the event.  You can also see theCube’s full schedule for VMworld 2013 here:

TheCUBE Schedule for VMworld 2013 San Francisco

Defy Convention

This year’s theme is “Defy Convention,” and it offers attendees informative Breakout Sessions and Hands-on Lab training, plus access to a number of technology partners to discuss virtualization best practices, building a private cloud, leveraging the public cloud, managing desktops as a service, virtualizing enterprise applications and more.

Attendees will hear keynotes from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis, JoyLabz Founder and Director Jay Silver, and Romotive CEO Keller Renaudo.

Interested attendees can register early and only pay $1995 until August 24, afterwhich, onsite price is at $2195.  But if you’re only interested in attending General Sessions and access to the Expo floor, the price is only $325.  If you have a +1, VMware has something in store for them.  The 6th Annual Spoustives at VMware is an event dedicated to spouses, partners, friends, and family members traveling to San Francisco with VMworld conference attendees.  It’s open for both men and women but there’s a small registration fee for some of the activities.  If your +1s are interest in participating, better have them register early to get sure slots.

Mobile apps

Attendees can also now download the VMworld 2013 app, available for both Android and iOS.  The app allows attendees to access their personal schedules, conference agenda, sponsor/exhibitor profiles, session information, social media and much more.  If you’re not an Android or iOS user, you can check out the VMworld 2013 Web app as it offers the same key information as the mobile apps.

You can also get the latest buzz from VMworld via Twitter – @VMworld, #VMworld, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and its official Blog.

SiliconANGLE will also be covering the event live from theCUBE, hosted by SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante.  You can also follow them on Twitter, @furrier and @dvellante to keep informed.

Before heading out to San Francisco next week for the big event, better brush up on what VMware has been up to these past months.  Check out the top execs that joined and left VMware – Key VMware Executive Shakeups in 2013 : New CEO + Other Fresh Faces, how VMware and OpenStack are getting along – VMware + OpenStack : A Brief but Strained History, the latest acquisitions – VMware This Year: Key Acquisitions, Mobility + OpenStack, and what happened at last year’s conference – VMworld Highlights 2012 : Looking Back to See Forward.