Earlier this month VMware released VMware View 3 which offers some great new features to their already popular Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. VDI expands virtualization to the desktop by allowing hosted desktops to reside in the datacenter. In the datacenter you can take advantage of advanced infrastructure features such as High Availability (HA) and distributed load balancing. The two improvements to the VDI solution I am going to quickly discuss are Linked Clones and Offline Desktop. I’m also including a link to the ThinApp solution I discussed in a previous C/D/H Knowledge Transfer article. Continue reading “VMware View 3 Improves VDI”
Paul Hillman talks with Matt Roush, the technology editor at WWJ Newsradio 950 and editor of the Great Lakes IT Report, a daily IT newsletter available via email every business morning. The IT Report covers a wide variety of tech stories including hardware, software, advanced manufacturing, life sciences and tech education.
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The battle of the virtualization platforms is heating up. Microsoft Hyper-V was released and has been exceeding expectations and will continue to try and take market share from the virtualization behemoth, VMware. The best part of this increasingly competitive area is the additional innovation and competitive pricing that is sure to follow. All of C/D/H’s clients will win in the end. While innovation and price reduction is great, the most entertaining part has to be the marketing efforts of these companies.
Continue reading “But VMware Costs More…Well Maybe Not!”
