My six-hour in-and-out trip to Vegas yesterday was a comedy of errors. Both inbound and outbound flights were delayed over a half-hour, I forgot my cell phone with made hooking up with anyone essentially impossible, and some drunk guy on the return flight decided to lose his lunch over an entire row of the plane.

But the excitement at the event itself was palpable. I talked with no less than about two dozen different vendors on the expo floor, and all of them could feel the excitement. Nearly 15,000 people were in attendance according to the VMware representative I talked with, and the expo floor was a sight to be seen. Most everyone I talked with mentioned how the level of excitement was much greater than seen even at Tech Ed.

Here's what I've found so far in terms of announcements. Rather than repeating them here, I'll be pointing to other sites where they're already better documented:

• Day 1's Cisco Keynote
• Day 1's VMware Keynote
• Day 2's VMware Keynote
• Fusion 2.0 Announcement (VMware for Mac)
• The vStorage API (In-VC storage management, very cool)
• Client Virtualization Management Improvements (effectively, VDI at the desktop)