Human vMotion
This week our fellow blogger, Sander Martijn, felt he had to vMotion to a new career opportunity. After working for Centric for 8 years, he has accepted a new challenge and signed a contract at Nspyre in the Netherlands. Sander, congratulations from the rest of…
VMware View 5 available NOW
It’s a release party at VMware today. After VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4, VMware now released VMware View 5. VMware View 5 will deliver better PCoIP performance, more supported client devices and integrated persona management. The biggest differences are the media services, integrated persona…
VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion 4 available
For all of you out there who use virtualisation on their Windows and Mac laptops, VMware released their new versions today. Both products, VMware Fusion v4 (actually, v4.01) and VMware Workstation v8 are available for download and purchase starting today The new versions of course…
Why can’t I run your OS on my virtual box, Steve?
Ever since I’ve been working on a Apple Classic II, many many years ago, I was caught by the way of thinking at Cupertino. Design combined with functionality was actually possible! Well, back then we thought it was beautiful, anyway :) Now, many years have…
VMware announces Project AppBlast
This week we already reported on Project Octopus but at the same time VMware announced the the long anticipated web based HTML5 application delivery tool called AppBlast, which will be available soon. I don’t know where VMware gets it’s project names. With Project Octopus I…
VMware announces View 5
As I said yesterday, VMworld is always the time and place for VMware to announce new products and technologies. Today was not any different. VMware announced the next version of their virtual desktop solution, VMware View 5 which will become available in the coming weeks….
VMware reveals Project Octopus
IToday VMware revealed Project Octopus at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. VMware stopped being a virtualization-only company a while ago and now it continues to develop technologies and infrastructure that improve the way people work in this post-PC era. Project Octopus will leverage data sync…
VMware announces vFabric Data Director
Today VMware’s VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas has started and VMworld is THE place for product announcements and releases. This year VMware is announcing vFabric Data Director, a product which powers database-as-a-service for your cloud, reducing database sprawl and drastically accelerating application development cycles with…
CommVault support for vSphere 5
With the release of service pack 3 for Simpana 9, CommVault adds full support for VMware vSphere 5. Many organizations struggle with rapid data growth, expanding virtual server deployments and increasing data center consolidations because legacy backup and recovery solutions just can’t cope with the…
Waiting is over – download vSphere 5 now!
After the release on July 12th, you can now download VMware vSphere 5 and enjoy the 150 new features. You can find the downloads here. For more information visit: VMware ESXi and VMware ESX Info Center VMware vSphere 5 release notes. If you want to…
How to: Upgrade to vSphere 5
On July 12th, VMware announced the release of vSphere 5. With the release comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation. However, there are a few caveats: vSphere 5 is the first version which comes in a ESXi version ONLY! ESXi 5 is available in…
How VMware is listening to their clientele: new vRAM limits
Sometimes a company rethinks its strategy and thinks it has found a new edge. This was, or better, is the case with the new licensing model for vSphere 5, that was announced 12th of July. Actually, vSphere 5 has a lot of new and exiting…
VMware View 5.x with PCoIP Optimization Controls
VMware in collaboration with Teradici is working hard to improve the rich user experience even more by adding new features and improving existing ones. The vDesktops running on VMware View can be reached through lots of different devices including Apple iPads or Android-based tablets. The…
Update Build numbers database
With everyone being busy it has been some time since the last update of the build numbers database, but now I found the time and now it updated. Apart from some updates on products that where there already, I also added a few other products to the list. If you…
How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments
I often get questions about Licensing Windows 7 in a VMware View deployment. I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they apply to common VMware View scenarios you can calculate and try to get the…