Two days ago Salesforce and VMware presented their new joint Platform as as service solution which offers the customer a complete Java development and application hosting environment. Based on the Spring & Tomcat platform virtualized with VMware vSphere the applications can run and interact with the force.com Database. The developer doesn’t need to care about [...]
Tablet PC’s are not new to me – no I’m a proud IBM Thinkpad x61T user for over 3 years. When I’ve bought the tablet my objective was to write notes with the digitizer and do interactive presentations i.e. whiteboardings, directly on a blank Powerpoint presentation. People who attended my presentations were amazed about this [...]
My colleague Raymond van’t Hag wrote an article about the ThinApp basics on his blog bright-streams.com. If you haven’t worked with ThinApp yet, you should definitely check his article. By the way bright-streams.com is Raymond’s blog, dedicated to VMware View & ThinApp.
I’m using the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for some days now and I have to say that I’m really happy with it. The user web interface is just awesome, easy to use and I love the Ajax stuff. I’m also using it on my iPhone and it runs perfectly. There was just one thing which made [...]
One week ago VMware announced the availability of a new browser toolbar on their Support Insider Blog at: http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/. The new toolbar works with Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Safari. It gives you instant access to patches, documentation and more. The built-in RSS and Twitter capability gives you direct updates from support. A live peer to [...]
Today VMware announced the availability of the final release of the vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide, which includes the extensive feedback of the VMware Community on the previous draft. You can find further details on the VMware Blogs.
Teradici, the leader in delivering true PC experience over IP networks announced the availability of the Teradici PCoIP Management Console, a software that enables administrators to manage an entire enterprise deployment of PCoIP devices from a central point. The new console allows configuration and monitoring of PCoIP based zero client devices and host devices.
Running out of memory will prevent the Linux system from running ZCS because it can’t create the needed Java virtual machine and also start essential processes like the MTA. During the installation I came to several situations where I ran out of memory but in the end I could install the software but not start [...]
Before I go on with the tuning tips for the Vserver I want to give you an overview of the most important command line parameters and log files. For the log files I’ve found a great resource in the Zimbra Wiki. During installation and configuration I’ve needed the zimbra.log which can be found at /var/log/zimbra.log. [...]
During this week I spent every night at my laptop, to get the the server running. Not because the installation is so hard, no because I don’t want to RTFM. So I had to run the setup several times. It’s important that you have a valid A-Record and MX-Record for your Zimbra Collaboration Server. During [...]