DER, a large German travel agency has virtualized their desktops in all branches with VMware View. Please find a link to a podcast with Sascha Karbginski, the project leader.

Our next VMworld case study interview focuses on how Germany’s largest travel agency has remade their PC landscape across 580 branch offices using virtual desktops. We’ll learn how Germany’s DER Deutsches Reisebüroredefined the desktops delivery vision and successfully implemented 2,300 Windows XP desktops as a service.

This story comes as part of a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the recent VMworld 2011 Conference in Copenhagen. The series explores the latest in cloud computing and virtualization infrastructure developments.

Link: Briefingsdirect

My colleague Raymond van’t Hag who’s a Sr. Specialist Systems Engineer in End User Computing at VMware posted a great overview of Horizon Mobile on his blog. If you want to learn more about the basics of the solution please give this article a read.

Link: Bright Streams

VMware introduces a new program which is called “VMware Ready Desktop Solution”. It helps you to simplify your path to modernize the desktop infrastructure. These solutions are delivered by VMware partners who have extensive experience in the VDI space.

The first validated solution is a solution architecture for federal teleworkers.

From the website:

With VMware Ready Desktop Solutions, View solutions are validated end-to-end to conform to strict performance, cost and scale requirements. With the deployment of a Validated Solution Architecture under the VMware Ready Desktop Solution program, your organization can achieve faster time-to-value by reducing the risks of deployment. With the design and deployment done by VMware’s premier partners, you get enhanced security, risk compliance and business continuity, all while improving the productivity of your employees with anytime, anywhere access to their desktops from any device.

(Graphics source: http://www.vmware.com/files/images/screens_view/vrds-info-diagram.jpg)

Please check the following website to get an deeper understanding of the the solutions and their benefits.

Link: VMware

Vittorio Viarengo again published an interesting article which describes the current situation on the VDI market. The information in the article comes from a Goldman Sachs survey which was published in January 2011.

Link: JourneyToCloud.com

Vittorio Viarengo published a very interesting article about the VDI market shares on his blog. The data from Morgan Stanley Research shows that Citrix and VMware have almost the same share in the installed base. Check Vittorio’s article for more information and some graphs.

Link: JourneytoCloud

On 30.11.2011 Cisco updated the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure using VMware View document to VMware View Version 4.6. Check it out to get information.

Link: Cisco

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 peer chat gives you the opportunity to ask an VMware expert or staff for help. You can find the download at: http://vmwaresupport.toolbar.fm.

Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth had a Geek-week where they’ve tested different desktop virtualization solutions including Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View. Please check the summary at www.brianmadden.com to see what they think about View 4! (Link)

VMGuru.nl published a new article on sizing a VMware View infrastructure. He talks about CPU, memory, storage and also network recommendations.

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The VMBlog.com has published a nice article with the name "VMware Predictions for 2010 – What’s next for all of us?", contributed by Dr. Stephen Herrod, CTO at VMware.

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