VMware announces VMware View 4 on the new VMware website:

“VMware View 4 is the industry’s first purpose built solution for delivering desktops as a managed service. Transform desktop management into a simplified and automated process, reduce the total cost of desktop ownership by 50%, provide end users a consistent high performance desktop experience and bring the power of the datacenter and vSphere to your desktops.”

I’m very excited about this new release of VMware View. Especially the new display protocol, the software implementation of Teradici’s PCoIP. Other key features and capabilities are: Read the rest of this entry »

Before I start my first post in the VirtualFuture.Info Bloggers-Battle, let me first respond to Matthijs’  first post. And let me remind the readers, this is a Bloggers-Battle. Matthijs and I are trying to convince each other and the readers that one product is a better choice than another, just for this Battle. As consultants solving customers’ challenges, we always choose products that fit the customer needs best. There are more options to choose from when it comes to Desktop Virtualization (Quest vWorkspace for example) but for this battle we choose VMware View 4 and Citrix Xendesktop 4, which will bothbe released this month. That having said, here is my respond to Matthijs’ article. Read the rest of this entry »

My blogging activities were very low last month (close to none actually) and I apologize for that. It must have been because I spend most of the time crying because my co-blogger Matthijs left the company I work for and he decided to work for the competition. Being competitors at the moment, I thought it was a good idea to do a bloggers-battle on VirtualFuture.info. What does that mean? Read the rest of this entry »