One of the most common requests I get from customer and partners is – When will VMware View support Windows 2K8 as Guest OS? As most of you probably know Microsoft does not provide SPLA licensing model for Windows 7 to allow customers and service providers to create Desktop-as-a-Service offerings using Enterprise grade VDI solutions …
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EMC World is only in May (May, 6-9) but I am very excited because for the first time I’ll have a session in such amazing conference. As most of you probably know I used to work for EMC as a vSpecialist, and that’s what makes it even more special. I am also looking forward to …
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VMworld was a blast! The whole week was frenetic, exhausting, vibrant and above all, a lot of fun. VMware put on an excellent show for attendees and partners, while demonstrating direction and leadership. Few things were a first for me… This was the first time I presented at VMworld and I have to say it was quite …
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The Desktop-as-a-Service opportunity is real and during and after my sessions at VMWorld many organizations, Service Providers and Integrators came to talk to me about their DaaS plans. “Project Catalyst is a prototype of a VMware integrated end-to-end DaaS platform utilizing View and vCloud Director with full multi-tenancy, elastic resource provisioning, self-service portal operation, and …
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The team at the Dell Solution Center recorded this video that demonstrate the power of the NVIDIA VGX virtualized GPU for VDI environment. In this video the display protocol in use is PCoIP. NVIDIA VGX uniquely addresses the user experience issues of traditional VDI by adding a fully virtualized GPU board into each of your …
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Giving continuity to my recent Desktop-as-a-Service series it’s time to tackle those components that make a true DaaS solution be able to dynamically provision and de-provision resources on-demand, near real-time, without users having to engineer for peak loads. This article is built on top of my previous DaaS articles: DaaS Identity Management, Federation & …
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One of the fundamental concepts behind cloud-based workloads is Mobility & Portability. Mobility & Portability have been continually discussed over the years and we finally see cloud providers offering solutions to import/export workloads from/to their clouds. Amazon EC2 has a VM Import/Export tool that allow administrator to import VMDK, VHD or RAW file via the …
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