VMworld 2009: day 1
Today VMworld 2009 finally gets started. I will attend 2 interesting hands-on labs and will blog-review them later today. What concerns me however is the number of people waiting in line for sessions already, and the Monday sessions are usually easy to get in to. I can’t remember seeing this kind of long queues in Las Vegas last year, while there were more people attending VMworld then.
I will also release the updated Application virtualization comparison chart today. This time it includes a comparison of launch-time of 5 commonly used applications and the results are very interesting.
Application Virtualization comparison chart update: Sneak peak
We are currently updating our application virtualization comparison chart. The one thing I’m most excited about is that we’ve added the launch times of a couple of applications you might want to virtualize. We have planned to release the updated chart this month, but I wanted to give you a sneak peak at the launch times of Adobe Acrobat 9.1 when virtualized with the featured products. In the chart you see the first launch and the second launch. The second launch is to see the difference when (some of the blocks of) the package is cached on disk or in memory. … Continue Reading
“VMware bashing part 3″, by Microsoft
Yesterday the third part of the “Hypervisor Footprint Debate” appeared on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog. As a consultant I’m supposed to be unbiased concerning vendors or products. “It depends” is our slogan 
. Therefore I’m always considering Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer along VMware VI3/VS4 when it comes to hardware virtaulization and therefore I’m regularly checking the WVT-blog.
But the way Microsoft is using this blog to trash VMware is sad. … Continue Reading
VMworld Europe scheduled for October 2010
I guess it’s now official: VMworld Europe won’t be held next February but we’ll have to wait until October 2010! The reason to do this is “to ensure that we are able to roll out key initiatives to customers and partners more quickly and consistently worldwide“, according to VMware.
For me as a blogger it won’t be interesting to go to the VMworld Europe event anymore because this time it really is going to be a “record-and-replay” event, so nothing new is going to be announced or demonstrated at the Europe event. I wonder if there won’t be any EMEA-partner sessions during VMworld 2010 in San Fransisco, because VMworld Europe will be held a month later…
Microsoft App-V 4.6 Beta Available : now package 64-bit apps !
Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the App-V 4.6 beta from Microsoft Connect.
One of the major improvements is that the sequencer now packages native 64-bit applications, and with this they seem to be the first in the market ! Off course this is a beta and the question is whether Microsoft will really be the first to release an RTM product that packages 64-bit apps.
Another big change … Continue Reading
