CDG Technical Update Event 5
This afternoon I visited the 5th Technical Update Event organized by CDG, a dutch distributor and training company of VMware, Citrix, RES and more. At these events, there are allways 3 products presented or technically explained. This time the following products were presented:
VDI comparison
The latest war in virtualization seems to be about VDI: a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Just after the release of Citrix Xendesktop, VMware send a letter to its partner stating that the product is build on a platform with an uncertain future. Virtualization.info wrote an article about this.
This is a way of putting your product on the market: just tell everyone that other products are bad. But I prefer a comparison between different solutions, like Quest software did. Quest software, who bought their own desktop broker made a comparison where Citrix Xendesktop and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager are compared next to the Quest Software Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite (kind of a long name, don’t you think?). And of course, in this comparison the Quest solution comes out as the ‘winner’. But it is fair to say that in this comparison there are a lot of features marked as YES for the Virtual Access Suite, while these features are not yet available in their current release. And future features of VMware VDM and Citrix XenDesktop were not taken into consideration.
VMWorld 2008, Las Vegas
This weekend I’ve made my reservation for VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. I’m attending this conference together with a colleague, Johan van Zanten. We are planning to keep track of the sessions we visit and blog about it on virtualfuture.info. So please come back to this site if you want to know what happens in Vegas (from 15-18 september that is)…
VMware 3.5 review
Virtualization.info released a review of VMware’s flagship product Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. Although it has been more than 6 months after the release of this product, it is a good review of the product, for existing 3.0x customers and for customers who are new to VMware or virtualization.
You can read it here.
