VMworld 2011 – Interview with Liquidware Labs
During VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, Peter van den Bosch and I had an interview with David Bieneman and Chris Akerberg from Liquidware Labs. We discussed Stratusphere Fit and the new Stratusphere Designer. We also talked about FlexApp and Profile Unity.
VMware ThinApp Factory, Technical Preview
At VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas I attended the Hands-on lab “Solving Application Management Challenges with Application Virtualization” (HoL23). A big part of this HoL is about ThinApp, from basic to more advanced. If you are going to Copenhagen and take this lab AND you already know ThinApp, I advise you to skip chapter 1 to 3 and start with chapter 4, because you don’t have time to complete the entire HoL(lab manual is 238 pages). Chapter 4 is about a technical preview of ThinApp Factory. To be clear, this was not even Beta code but I was already impressed by the product and the features it will have. Here is my impression of ThinApp Factory (with screenshots!).
VMworld 2011 – Video of the vExperts CTO party
I was one of the lucky vExperts who was invited for a VMware CTO party at VMworld. I must admit, this was the best “party” of VMworld this year. Not just because of the great food, nice cocktails and super location, but because of all the people that were there. I had a lot of interesting conversations with vExperts, VMware engineers, architects and product managers of topics I was interested in: End User Computing. My compliments go to one man especially: John Troyer. He did a great job connecting people with each other, as he knows which persons shared the same interest.
Anyway, here is a video I shot at the CTO party.
Liquidware Labs FlexApp demo
At VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, Liquidware Labs announced that user-installed application functionality will be available in the profile and user environment management solution, ProfileUnity. With ProfileUnity FlexApp, authorized desktop users will now have the ability to install applications during a virtual desktop session-even within shared-image, stateless, non-persistent and floating pool environments.
When users log off, the application installation will not be lost and will be returned to their desktop environment upon next login. ProfileUnity FlexApp also features the ability for departmental managers and administrators to install applications and apply them to individuals or to their entire organizational unit within Microsoft Active Directory.
ProfileUnity FlexApp takes a very lightweight and database-free approach to delivering user and department administrator installed applications.
At VMworld, I recorded this demo of Liquidware Labs FlexApp:
Liquidware Labs FlexApp is planned to be officially released with ProfileUnity version 5.0 by the end of the year.
VMWorld 2011- Update 1
This week I’m attending VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas. Although I spend a lot of time shooting and editing interviews and daily wraps for the Dutch VMUG site, I just wanted to create a blogpost to share what I found interesting. I will add content to this post during this week.
Day 1
- Project Horizon: Managing VMware ThinApp as a Cloud Service
This session was about Vmware Horizon AppManager and the ThinApp integration, which is new. It was explained how VMware Horizon works from a technical point of View. What also is possible to track app usage and real-time monitoring.
- VMware View Plus Virtual Cloud Infrastructure: What’s New and Future Directions
The new VMware View 5 features highlighted. If you want to know more, read Myvirtualcloud.net.
- View Enterprise Architecture Design and Implementation Best Practices
This session was actually exactly the same as the first video of the VMware Bootcamp.
- View Troubleshooting: Looking under the hood … Continue Reading
