With the VMware release of vSphere 5.1 as part of the vCloud suite I would expect a lot of good documentation and whitepapers to be released. Today on the VMware VROOM blog I found a new white paper call ‘vSphere 5.1 vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices’ that I wanted to share. For full details […]
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Archive | August, 2012
VMware Attracts a Record 21,000 Registered Attendees to VMworld 2012,
August 30, 2012 
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In a press release today VMware announced that a record 21,000 Registered Attendees attended VMworld 2012 this year in San Francisco. Being out there and seeing it first hand I definitely believe it. I think it was a great event for all participants as well as the partners and sponsors. I spent a lot of […]
Read moreCitrix GoToAssist Enhances Mobile and BYOD Support
August 29, 2012 0 Comments
Today in a press release Citrix announced Citrix GoToAssist now offers an expanded feature set to address the growing IT demand to support mobile devices. The new GoToAssist capabilities enable IT professionals to deliver responsive remote support of iOS devices. From the Press Release new feature highlights include: Remote Support of iOS Devices GoToAssist for […]
Read moreBest of VMworld Awards 2012
August 28, 2012 0 Comments
Today in the Solutions Exchange theater TechTarget announced the Best of VMworld Awards for 2012. There was over 200 entries this year so I am sure there were some tough decisions for the judges. There were 8 categories this year as well as a Best of Show winner. Winners in some categories of interest including Best of Show are: […]
Read moreLiquidware Labs Extends Stratusphere Product Line With Two New Offerings
August 28, 2012 0 Comments
Today in a press release Liquidware Labs announced two new product line offerings in our Stratusphere product line. The new product lines are Stratusphere IXD, (“Interactive Designer”) is an automated image, host, and storage design solution for virtual desktop infrastructures, and Stratusphere Adapter, is a specialized desktop metrics feed into VMware vCenter Operations for single pane-of-glass monitoring across […]
Read moreVMware Showcases Advancements in End User Computing at VMworld 2012
August 28, 2012 0 Comments
This was the highlght announcement of the Keynote address at VMworld today. I watched on the big screen in the Hang Space Area which was very cool. In the press release as well as in the presentation VMware announced and previewed the alpha version of the VMware Horizon Suite, a new platform that will offer a […]
Read moreVMware announces vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
In a press release today VMware announced vSphere Data Protection which is a new backup and recovery solution from VMware to be delivered with vSphere 5.1 and is built on industry-leading EMC Avamar deduplication backup software technology. This replaces vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) which was available in prior vSphere releases. It should be interesting the impact this has on the large […]
Read moreLiquidware Labs Unveils “On-Demand” Department Installed Applications Feature at VMworld 2012
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
Today Liquidware Labs announced at VMworld 2012 “On-Demand’ Department Installed applications. This is a significant and very cool addition to our FlexApp technology now enabled administrations to deploy user and corporate department applications to users, groups, departments, or the entire enterprise, without affecting the underlying base image of virtual machines. With ProfileUnity FlexApp, desktop administrators can utilize gold master […]
Read moreVMware Defines New Operating Model for the Cloud Era
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
VMware announced today at VMworld a new Operating Model for the Cloud Era. This announcement creates new Cloud Ops education, transformation and advisory services as well as a Cloud Ops Forum to collaborate on industry-wide IT approach composed of VMware a number of VMware partners including Dell, EMC, HP and others. “Customers evolving to Cloud Ops […]
Read moreVMware Unveils vCloud Suite 5.1
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
Watching this live on VMware Now but just came across the press release from VMware as they announce vCloud Suite 5.1. This supports the VMware direction of a total a ‘Software Defined Data Center’. One big announced made today by VMware with this was the elimination of the vRAM pricing structure which was announced last […]
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