... VMware is expected to announce within two weeks the date of its first customer conference to be held in Australia. Paul Harapin, VMware Australia/New Zealand managing director, said local interest in virtualization technology is so strong customers "contact us constantly". Harapin said adoption rates have been high and as a result virtualization maturity in Australia is on par with the US. A little over a year ago VMware had three staff in Australia, Harapin said, and numbers have increased ten-fold since then...