It is 3am here in Australia and I just finished up watching what I believe to be one of the if not the largest industry shaping event for IT. The launch of VMware's vSphere.

I will keep it short with a number of notable  quotes from Paul Maritz and transcribe my thoughts and detail when it is a sane hour.

"It's not about individual machines but how groups of machines relate together"
"Take multiple machines and get them to co-operate together"

"Control, Efficiency and Management that is effectively a single giant computer"
"Hide the complexity"

"It speaks to a hunger, people want their datacentres to be something better"
"Sever the tentacles of complexity without going back to square one and starting again"

"New age clouds are the ultimate california motels, you can check in but never check out of them"

"VMware can provide the bridge that is needed, virtualisation is the key technology to make it happen"
"Wrap up the complexity into a black box, slide underneath the box"

"Installing software to people and not devices, the system should take care of the plumbing"