As you probably already know this year there will be the 10th edition of VMworld US, and will probably another good reason to attend at this event (and for the VMworld EU there are still a couple of day for the early bird).
There is a nice post on the VMworld’s blog with several interesting data across all the editions:VMworld 2013 Blog Series: Breakout Sessions.
But first a list of all the editions (locations and period): you can notice a shift of the dates from late October/September to August (for the US edition) and from February from October (for the EU edition). There is also an incompleted Wikipedia page! Note that next edition will be again at San Franscisco (US edition) and Barcelona (EU eidtion), probably for more times.
| Year | VMworld US | VMworld EU |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | San Diego – Oct. 27-29 | |
| 2005 | Las Vegas – Oct. 18-20 | |
| 2006 | Los Angeles – Nov. 7-9 | |
| 2007 | San Francisco – Sept. 11-13 | |
| 2008 | Las Vegas – Sept. 15-18 | Cannes – Feb. 26-28 |
| 2009 | San Francisco – Aug. 31-Sept. 3 | Cannes – Feb. 24-26 |
| 2010 | San Francisco – Aug. 30-Sept. 2 | Copenhagen – Oct. 11-13 |
| 2011 | Las Vegas – Aug. 29-Sept. 1 | Copenhagen – Oct. 18-20 |
| 2012 | San Francisco – Aug. 26-30 | Barcelona – Oct. 9-11 |
| 2013 | San Francisco – Aug. 25-29 | Barcelona – Oct. 15-17 |
In those years attendees as grow, this is no surprise, considering growing thousands of VMware customers, partners, engineers, product experts and IT professionals. Unfortuanlly there aren’t data about the geographics distrutions or the role distributions.
| Year | US Attendees | Europe Attendees |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | > 1,600 | |
| 2005 | > 3,500 | |
| 2006 | > 6,000 | |
| 2007 | > 10,800 | |
| 2008 | > 14,000 | > 4,500 |
| 2009 | > 12,500 | > 4,700 |
| 2010 | > 17,000 | > 6,000 |
| 2011 | > 19,000 | > 6,500 |
| 2012 | > 21,000 | > 7,000 |
| 2013 | > 21,000 (estimated) | > 8,000 (estinated) |
There are also some curios stats (old but still interesting), like this VMworld 2010 by the numbers
- 17,021: Registered attendees at VMworld 2010, up from 12,500 last year
- 85: Countries represented by attendees at VMworld 2010
- 1,400: Attendance at the first VMworld in 2004
- 55: People who have attended every VMworld
- 100,000: VMs deployed to support 20,000 labs at VMworld 2010
- 4,000: VMs running per hour, on average, in those labs
Also interesting the number of sessions (for more stats on the recents Call For Papers, see By the Numbers – VMworld 2013 Session Voting)
| Year | CFP | US Sessions | Europe Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | ? | > 60 | |
| 2005 | ? | > 110 | |
| 2006 | ? | > 290 | |
| 2007 | ? | > 210 | |
| 2008 | ? | > 300 | > 120 |
| 2009 | ? | > 300 | > 140 |
| 2010 | ? | > 170 | > 115 |
| 2011 | 843 | > 175 | > 200 |
| 2012 | 1222 | > 330 | > 200 |
| 2013 | 954 | > 330 | > 200 |
Andrea Mauro
Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect. Tech Field delegate. VMUG IT Co-Founder and board member. VMware VMTN Moderator and vExpert 2010-24. Dell TechCenter Rockstar 2014-15. Microsoft MVP 2014-16. Veeam Vanguard 2015-23. Nutanix NTC 2014-20. Several certifications including: VCDX-DCV, VCP-DCV/DT/Cloud, VCAP-DCA/DCD/CIA/CID/DTA/DTD, MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, CCA, NPP.
