VMware releases new versions of Fusion and Workstation
Yesterday VMware released the latest versions of its personal desktop hypervisors: Fusion for the Mac and Workstation (and Player) for Windows. For those of you who are not familiar with either product, both are used to provide a virtual environment on either Windows or OS…
New VMware View clients for iPad and Android released
Today VMware released a new client for the iPad and Android devices. Version 1.2 is optimized for VMware View 5, has support for iOS 5 including AirPlay and contains presentation mode for use with external displays and AirPlay. VMware View Client for Android makes it…
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 announces vSphere 5
Today VMware had planned a webcast named ‘Raising the bar. Part V’. It was a public secret that they were going to announce VMware vSphere 5 and indeed they did. But on top of that VMware also new released new versions of vCloud Director (1.5),…
VMware released vSphere 4.1 Update 1
Tonight VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server 4.1. Update 1 for ESX/ESXi contains a few new/improved features: Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot…
Download VMware View 4.5 now
After the announcement of VMware View 4.5 at VMworld 2010, VMware released the new version of View yesterday. If you are interested in the new features and improvements see our previous post. If you want download an evaluation of the VMware View 4 .5 visit…
VMware View 4.5 announced
Today, at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware announced the launch of VMware View 4.5. VMware View 4.5 is packed with loads of new features which increases VMware View use cases and definitively narrows the gap with Citrix XenDesktop. In fact, Chris Wolf from Gartner…
VMware vSphere 4.1 released
A few minutes ago VMware has released the new version of VMware vSphere, version 4.1. This new vSphere version contains 150 new features and has improved scalability, memory management, DRS, etc. Besides all the new features the greatest news is that vSphere 4.1…
VMware ThinApp 4.5 released
Yesterday VMware has released the new version of their application virtualization product, ThinApp 4.5 ThinApp 4.5 includes the following new features to improve usability, performance, and updates: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2, 32-bit Windows 7, and 64-bit Windows 7 operating systems. ThinApp version updates…
VMware View 4 released [Cont’d]
Yesterday VMware released it’s new version of its VDI solution, VMware View 4. VMware View 4 includes the following new features and improvements: VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, images,…
vSphere 4 Update 1 released
Last night VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi 4, ESX 4, and vCenter server 4. According to the release notes Update 1 includes the following improvements: Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2; Support for View 4; Support for 160 VMs per…
VMware View 4 launch November 9th, GA November 16th
Today I received an invitation for a ‘What’s new in VMware View 4’ training. According to this invitation the release of VMware’s new version of View including the long awaited PCoIP will be release November 16th. That is a week later then the date mentioned…
Citrix HDX 3D with host-side GPU-based encoding
Yesterday Citrix announced HDX 3D which is an enhancement to the ICA protocol which, according to Citrix, delivers 3D applications by only using one-tenth of the bandwidth. This is fierce competition for VMware’s PCoIP which they developed with Teradici and which VMware will demo at…
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d released
Last week Iomega announced a new NAS appliance called the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is based on EMC storage technologies and contains four SATA-300 drivebays. With a storage capacity of 2, 4 and 8 TB it is the ideal NAS appliance for small businesses, distributed…
VMware View 3.1 released
As you all have seen on VMGuru.nl we’re very busy implementing VMware View solutions. These solutions were based on VMware View 3.0.1 but yesterday evening VMware released the new version of their VDI solution VMware View 3.1. So what’s new in VMware View 3.1? Performance…