VMworld 2010 starts August 30, 2010. There is a lot of speculation of what will be announced there. Two authors that have posted predictions are Jake Sorofman and Brian Madden. Jake predicts: More focus on OpEx Virtualization is a cap ex boon and an op ex bust-as compute capacity is made available by the hypervisor, it's quickly filled in with new machines. The result? An explosion in the number of machines that need to be managed-and an explosion in operating expense. more...
Microsoft Hyper-V has started to make inroads into dominate VMware shops, but how prevalent is Hyper-V in these types of shops? A recent article from CIO attempts to answer this question. Small companies or those with simple IT requirements aren't the only ones looking at Hyper-V more intently. more...
Back in the days when we delivered applications remotely using Terminal Server based solutions, roaming profiles were mostly sufficient for personalization options. Now that VDI solutions are becoming more prevalent, roaming profiles are usually not sufficient to conquer the personalization needs for an end user. Ron Oglesby started a new blog series called "VDI implementation learning" and addresses the limitations of roaming profiles as a user personalization solution in VDI. more...
Recently, VMware released ThinApp version 4.6. There are a lot of cool new features packed in to this release. The VMware team posted a very detailed blog entry highlighting these new features. New features of ThinApp 4.6 include: Full support for Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows 7. ThinApp 4.6 adds the ability to "Harvest" Internet Explorer 6 from an existing Windows XP instance. ThinApp 4.6 adds a new "ThinDirect" feature which allows redirecting of URLs from native to virtual browsers. more...
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