Today I visited the Brian Madden Event in Enschede (Netherlands). This day was mainly about VDI and the vision Brian has on VDI. It was a great event and hearing Brian speak is always inspiring and makes me think. It was a typical Brian Madden event with quotes like “VDI is weird !“ and “If you produce a hammer, everything you see is a nail“.

Brian already wrote an article about his vision on VDI: June 2010 VDI will be ready for wholesale desktop replacement. During this day we went a bit further into the VDI story so I’ll get into that later this week and will also share my opinion about the future of VDI.

Thanks for a great event and for the nice article Brian :)!

Greg Stephens just dropped me an e-mail:

 Customers have told us that they appreciate the innovation behind our enterprise management systems connectors to VMware.  We’ve also heard that you sometimes wish we had more developers to devote to continuing enhancement of these products.  With today’s announcement of nworks‘ acquisition by Veeam Software, that wish has come true.

nworks is now part of Veeam Software, an award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware infrastructures.  Like nworks, Veeam is known for its innovation, but Veeam is a larger organization, with nearly 50 developers focused on VMware.

Veeam is best known for its FastSCP freeware, and the company also offers Veeam Backup, the 2-in-1 backup and replication solution; Veeam Reporter, an automated way to discover and document VMware virtual server environments; Veeam Configurator, a simple way to configure and provision ESX servers;  and Veeam Monitor, for a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across the entire VMware infrastructure.   

I hope that nworks monitoring will go in a spin off just like FastSCP has been.