VMware R&D Innovation Lounge
Aug 26-30 | Booth #1730

See cutting edge innovation at work.

Get a sneak peek at early-stage projects, attend hands-on demos, and network with VMware engineers. You’ll also be able to submit your own ideas in our Open Innovation Contest, with a chance to win free passes to VMworld 2013.

The Posters Research projects initiated by VMware employees

vPerfGuard: An Automated Tool for Building Adaptive Performance

Rean Griffith, Xiaoyun Zhu

vHadoop: Fire Hadoop in the Cloud

Junping Du, Wendy He

Environmentally Aware Computing: Using Power, Temperature, and Location Data in the Datacenter

Anne Holler, Kinshuk Govil

Abnormality Analysis of Streamed Log Data

Mazda Marvasi, Arnak Poghosyan, Ashot Harutyunyan, Naira Grigoryan

A Social-Media Approach to Virtualization Management

Ravi Soundararajan, Harish Muppalla, Lawrence Spracklen, Emre Celebi

Automated Policy-driven Placement in the Cloud

Pradeep Padala, Ajay Gulati, Ganesha Shanmuganathan and Parth Shah

xDRS: One Scheduler to Rule Them All

Ganesha Shanmugnathan, Ajay Gulati

vBots: Embodiment of Access Control

Conrad Albrecht-Buehler

Location Aware Calendaring for Zimbra

Melina McLarty, Ahsen Jaffer, Andrey Belokrylov

Towards Scalable and Highly Available Virtual Infrastructure Management

Min Cai, Kinshuk Govil, Yunlu Yang

Test Driven Development and Robots

Ben Duong

The Programs Representing some of our innovative programs

Flings

A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a fun one. Likewise, VMware Flings are tools that are intended to be played with and explored.

VMAP: VMware Academic Program

The VMware Academic Program is a comprehensive program designed specifically for the academic community.

Project NEE: Next-generation Education Environment

Project NEE is a new project incubated in the development labs of the Office of the CTO. Already at an advanced stage, Project NEE provides a richly featured, powerful online learning and lab environment delivered from the cloud to any device, anywhere, anytime. We're showing off Project NEE for the first time here at VMworld 2012.

About the Lounge Research & Development Innovation Lounge

Located at Booth #1730

Visit the VMware® R&D Innovation Lounge at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco (Booth #1730) to see cutting edge innovation at work at VMware! The R&D Innovation Lounge will be open all week during the Solutions Exchange.

Culture of Innovation

For VMware, Innovation means working creatively to continuously deliver breakthrough technologies that add value to our customers and partners. VMware has a history of innovation, but more important we have a culture of innovation. From our early days at Stanford to bringing new platforms to support private and public clouds, we have maintained our passion around the next big thing. 

Share Your Best Ideas

Innovation at VMware isn’t just a one-way street -- do you have a great idea for a new product or feature? If so, we want to hear from you. Share your best ideas with us by entering the new VMware® Open Innovation Contest for a chance to win a pass to VMworld 2013!

Check out the official contest video.