VMware View is the company's desktop virtualization product. Originally called "VDM," (for virtual desktop manager), View is an end-to-end VDI product, including vSphere, disk image provisioning, ThinPrint-based printing, Teradici's PC-over-IP display protocol, and many other features. View also includes "View Local Mode," for client-based virtual machines.
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Yesterday VMware announced that they've acquired Wanova , a maker of desktop management and layering software. This represents a potential big change for VMware, as Wanova pitched their product as something like, "the benefits of central management without...
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Last week VMware announced View 5.1. One of the major new features is this thing called "View Storage Accelerator," or "VSA." In my article about View 5.1 , I wrote that I wasn't particularly excited about VSA. It turns out I didn't fully understand how...
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[UPDATED MAY 4] Corrected info about how the View Storage Accelerator Works Today VMware released the details of the next version of View, called version 5.1. (They also announced that Horizon App Manager is available for on-premises deployments and that...
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May 02, 2012
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Are you looking for an independent overview of the Server Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI) solutions and curious about the different features- and functions each Desktop Virtualization vendor is offering!? Then this is the whitepaper you must definitely...
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February 07, 2012
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Citrix Synergy Barcelona is taking place this week. (Gabe is there, I'm on vacation at home.) So while the news will probably be fast & furious from Barcelona, it's actually VMware who gets the first story of the week. Following their desktop announcements...
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VMworld 2011 Europe is taking place this week in Copenhagen. While the show is supposed to be fairly similar to the US one (since that was just a few months ago), we're seeing a few new desktop announcements, including one about 3D graphics & VMware...
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October 19, 2011
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I visited VMware's headquarters in Palo Alto a few months ago and was surprised to see a Wyse P20 PC-over-IP thin client in one of the cubicles. "Wow, so someone here actually uses View for their desktop?" "Oh that," my host said, "That's where the intern...
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October 07, 2011
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Jack Madden talks with VMware's Robert Baesman about a new feature in VMware View 5 called "Persona" for profile and user settings management. Traditionally, users had to give up personal settings to get the benefits of stateless desktops...
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Gabe Knuth talks with VMware's Mike Coleman about a little-known VMware View feature called Unified Communications.
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September 01, 2011
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Gabe & Brian sat down with VMware's Brian Gammage to discuss the desktop and end user aspects of VMworld. Covered in today's show: View 5 Octopus AppBlast Persona Horizon Mobile
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August 30, 2011
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VMworld 2011 kicked off in Las Vegas last night with an opening keynote from CEO Paul Maritz. While Paul didn't talk too much about the desktop--I heard one person suggest that the desktop at VMware has "middle child syndrome"--VMware did announce several...
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August 30, 2011
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Yesterday VMware accidentally posted the Release Notes for View 5.0, the latest version of their VDI product which they'll be announcing at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas later this month. The leaked document was quickly deleted, but not before plenty of people...
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August 18, 2011
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Yesterday VMware announced Version 5 of their main product, vSphere. (In other words, they announced ESX 5.) While vSphere 5 has tons of new features, it also has a new licensing model. Early reactions from the community are that the change in licensing...
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July 14, 2011
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At my Desktop Virtualization 2011 event in Atlanta last week (which will be in Detroit this week and St. Louis next week), one of the questions I was asked was, "Which is better: XenDesktop or View?" I've historically answered that question with some...
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In this week's show, Brian and Gabe talk about RemoteFX (now that it's been officially released), as well as the new iPad client from VMware . Highlights from this week's show: Gabe bought a graphics card and setup RemoteFX in his home lab. He'll talk...
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VMware just announced availability of a PC-over-IP -based View client for the Apple iPad. It's just now become available in the Apple App Store, so I'll be downloading it this week to try out. In the meantime, I was able to sit down with VMware's...
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March 09, 2011
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Last week VMware released View 4.6. It's a minor release with the main new feature being the "VMware View Security Server" which is a security proxy that lets users connect via PCoIP without needing a corporate VPN. But perhaps the bigger...
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March 08, 2011
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Oh we have quite a fun little controversy brewing between Citrix and VMware today. I was going to try to follow this via twitter, but there's sort of too much going on. The story goes like this: As you know, one of the big differences between VMware's...
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February 16, 2011
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If you're not familiar with RingCube, they have a software product called "vDesk" ( video demo ) that they've marketed as a client-based desktop virtualization solution. vDesk allows a user to boot a second instance of Windows from the base instance,...
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February 10, 2011
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It's 10:03pm on January 31, and I'm writing this post from my MacBook Air. If all goes according to plan, this will be the last time I use my laptop until April. I've decided that after talking, writing, speaking, and thinking about VDI for...
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February 01, 2011
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