Being overweight is probably one of the most common problems we face when getting older, and the same actually goes for PC’s. When they age we start to notice that a “bloated” OS just doesn’t cut it anymore. For most companies this usually means that it’s time to replace their desktops for brand new state of the art equipment. Of [...]

I think by now most of you have read Mike D’s scoop on the “VMware View Open Client“. If not here’s  a outtake from the press release: VMware View Open Client is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL v 2.1) and is accessible from http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/. Some of the features included in this release support secure tunneling [...]

VMware’s John Troyer revealed on Twitter a couple of hours ago a “search-able hardware compatibility guide” for VMware ESX and VMware View: This online Hardware Compatibility Guide web application was released on December 10, 2008. To learn more about benefits and usage of this tool, please see “Help on Searching”. This online Hardware Compatibility Guide replaces the former Hardware Compatibility [...]

VMware just released a new PDF called “VMware VDI Storage Considerations“. This PDF contains some “good to know” facts about protocol behaviour. Just check it out…

I wanted to do a live blog on the Keynote but my streaming audio collapsed so many times that I can’t write a decent article… but luckily Scott was in the room and he managed to publish an article a few minutes after the keynote ended. So read it here. Great stuff,

One of the problems with VDI has always been RDP. Especially when connecting over a WAN. Key with VDI is, like Paul Maritz just stated in his keynote, is user experience. VMware just announced an alliance with Teradici to achieve a greater user experience for a true remote PC. The protocol will be incorporated into a future release of the [...]

oSo there have been a couple of major and innovative features and visions released over the last two days. But that’s not where it ends. The official VMworld hasn’t even begun yet and here’s the next announcement: VMware View. So what will be announced today: VMware View Composer, VMware Offline Desktop and Client Virtualization which all are directly related to [...]