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VMware Desktop Virtualization and Mobility

• VMware announces Workspace One, the next stage of their EUC convergence efforts.

  Today VMware is announcing Workspace One, the next version of Workspace Suite. It includes significant updates to VMware Identity Manager as well as several other big desktop virtualization-related announcements.  Continue Reading

• Now that VMworld and AirWatch Connect are done, here are my final thoughts

  With VMworld and AirWatch Connect just a few weeks apart, it feels like that's all we've been talking about. So now that both of these events have passed, I'm going to put a bow on our coverage with just a few more final thoughts.  Continue Reading

• AirWatch Connect 2015 is going on now—here's everything you need to know (Updated)

  AirWatch Connect 2015 is taking place this week in Atlanta, and I'm here onsite covering it along with my TechTarget colleague Ramin Edmond.  Continue Reading

• AirWatch Connect 2015 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog—Noah Wasmer talks about the future of EMM

  The Day 2 Keynote at AirWatch Connect featured Noah Wasmer talking about the future of EMM and EUC, and I wrote a live blog. Tyler Shields from Forrester spoke, too, and it wrapped up with Adam Savage from MythBusters as a special guest.  Continue Reading

• AirWatch Connect 2015 Day 1 Keynote Live Blog

  The AirWatch Connect conference is taking place this week in Atlanta, and I did a live blog of the keynote. The keynote is over now-read from the bottom up.  Continue Reading

• VMworld 2015 Day 2 EUC Keynote Live Blog

  The Day 2 keynote of VMworld 2015 takes place today in San Francisco. Yesterday's opening keynote didn't have any EUC content in it, so today we'll learn what VMware has planned in the desktop/VDI/mobile world.  Continue Reading

• VMworld session notes: Shawn Bass: The Future of End User Computing

  I attended Shawn Bass's session at VMworld 2015 on Sunday called The Future of End User Computing. This was one of the 30-minute "quick talk" sessions.  Continue Reading

• VMworld session notes: Brian Gammage: Workplace Transformation through EUC

  On Sunday I attended Brian Gammage's session Workplace Transformation through EUC Transformation: How to Plan, How to Start. This was a 30-minute session.  Continue Reading

• VMworld session notes: Noah Wasmer: Future of Business Mobility

  On Sunday afternoon at VMworld, I attended Noah Wasmer's session Peek into the Future: Our Vision for Business Mobility. There weren't actually any new announcements in the session since the main VMworld press releases haven't gone out yet, but ...  Continue Reading

• Thanks to Horizon 6.1, VDI finally has some inherent security benefits over physical desktops

  "VDI is not more secure than physical desktops," is something that we've been saying, and proving, since the dawn of VDI.  Continue Reading

• Get ready—VMware is combining network virtualization with EMM

  Most of the time, we don't really pay much attention to VMware NSX. It's cool stuff, but it's just not our area.  Continue Reading

• VMware releases Horizon 6.1 (or Horizon 6 "newest release" or whatever they're calling it)

  Last week VMware released the latest version of their Horizon 6 desktop virtualization product. It's been about a year since they first released Horizon 6-their product which combines VDI desktops with RDSH sessions and seamless application ...  Continue Reading

• Horizon Air Desktop DR is a fine idea, but at the end of the day, still DaaS (for better or worse)

  We learned at VMworld Europe that VMware sees disaster recovery as a problem that they can address with cloud services. Currently, customers build elaborate colocation sites or offsite DR facilities with PCs and servers (sometimes the previous ...  Continue Reading

• VMworld Roundup: VMware announces Horizon Flex managed client virtual machines

  In Barcelona yesterday at VMworld, VMware announced their latest attempt at creating an enterprise-class Type-2 client hypervisor. VMware hasn't had a whole lot of success in this department in the past–you might recall ACE having been a thing...  Continue Reading

• VMware lands a few high profile hires of their own in Shawn Bass and Mark Margevicius

  In a blog post last week, Sumit Dhawan announced that VMware had hired both Shawn Bass and Mark Margevicius, two people that many of us know. I first crossed paths with Mark at Key Bank in Cleveland during the late 90's (though it's so long ago that...  Continue Reading