VMware recently held an event in Boston called Virtualization Forum 2008. I would estimate attendance at 400-600, in that range. My only gripe is that the company seems to have a penchant for piping in high-decibel hard rock music just before the first morning session (the same thing happened at VMworld before the Maritz keynote, some of you may recall). While I’m a avid rock fan, I would prefer to just sit there in a quiet coffee-sipping lump at that time of day. But hey that’s just me…. The Boston session wasn’t exactly full of surprises although I found it curious that VMware appears to be being a bit dodgy about the progress of the vStorage initiative that they were so eager to talk about in Vegas. Something might be in the works that has caused them to freeze their messaging. An anecdotal comment I heard the other day suggesting more incipient EMC involvement tends to bolster that line of thinking.