This afternoon in the Solutions Exchange Theater area Tech Target announced the Best of VMworld Awards for 2011. A large crowd gathered to hear the announcement and I know there was some tough decisions for the judges. For all of the vendors at VMworld winning an award, either being the Gold Winner or a Finalist […]
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Archive | August, 2011
VMware View™ 5 with PCoIP® Improvements Verified Through Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX™
August 31, 2011 
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The announcements keep coming from Liquidware Labs at VMworld. Today it was announced that the latest version of its award-winning Stratusphere UX™ desktop virtualization solution will be integrated with VMware View™ 5. With the integration, users will have deep-level visibility into the performance of the new VMware protocol layer. “Stratusphere UX™ has the ability to monitor and validate PCoIP® […]
Read moreThoughts From VMworld Solutions Exchange – Tuesday
August 31, 2011 0 Comments
I spent most of the day on Tuesday at the Solutions Exchange at VMworld. Most people are talking about the new technology being announced and shown by the vendors here and there is definitely a lot of cool things to discuss. However, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the Solutions Exchange in general. I […]
Read moreLiquidware Labs Unveils Stratusphere Designer for Virtual Desktops
August 30, 2011 0 Comments
Today Liquidware Labs introduced its upcoming Stratosphere Designer Product for virtual desktops, an automated image, host, and storage designer for organizations migrating to Windows 7 using VDI. This is another exciting announcement for Liquidware in delivering solutions for the continuing desktop transformation. Stratusphere Designer leverages the AppFIT™ feature of Stratusphere FIT to identify application compatibility with VMware ThinApp […]
Read moreVMware at VMworld Announces New Products and Services for the Post-PC Era
August 30, 2011 0 Comments
One of the first big announcements at VMworld this year was VMware announcing their new products and service as we move into the post PC era. Centered in that announcement is VMware View 5, which will be available in the upcoming weeks. Also announced were updates to VMware Horizon with VMware Horizon Applications Manager and […]
Read moreVMworld 2011 Blogging
August 27, 2011 2 Comments
Next week I plan to be posting blog updates on what is occurring at VMworld 2011. This could be updates from the Solutions Exchange and the many virtualization vendors, as well as whatever industry buzz and announcements are occurring. I was planning to get out there today but Hurricane Irene had different plans, so now I am […]
Read moreVMware fills View 5 app personalization dearth with third-party stop gap
August 26, 2011 0 Comments
There was a good article recently on Tech Target called ‘VMware fills View 5 app personalization dearth with third-part stop gap’ that I wanted to share here. In this article it features a new addition to the Liquidware portfolio called FlexApp which will handle user installed application for View uses running Stateless virtual desktops. This is an […]
Read moreVMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere® 5
August 25, 2011 0 Comments
Today VMware announced the general availability of vSphere 5. Earlier this summer VMware announced vSphere 5 as one of the largest releases to data for VMware. That announcement also introduced a change in the licensing approach which caused an industry stir and VMware has since modified. The vSphere 5 release as expected will be a topic […]
Read moreCitrix Releases XenDesktop 5.5
August 24, 2011 0 Comments
Today Citrix released XenDesktop 5.5. This new release major enhancements in personalization, user experience and rich consumer device support. It also includes the “Personal vDisk” technology acquired in the ‘RingCube’ recent purchase. Desktop virtualization continues to be an emerging technology and XenDesktop is a market leader. This new release continues that leadership. New in XenDesktop […]
Read moreLiquidware Labs Continues Aggressive Expansion with Top Industry Talent
August 23, 2011 0 Comments
Recently I joined Liquidware Labs and today’s press release announced a number of industry veterans joining the Liquidware team. This included myself as well as Ron McKelvey who I helped built PHD Virtual and esXpress into a leading virtual backup product. Also joining Liquidware are Vizioncore alumni Joseph Castro, Paul Buergey, Scott Bennett and Anne Waterhouse as part of the growing sales team. We […]
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