Today VMware announced a lot of new solutions and products in the End User Computing area. Please find an overview of some really cool articles. A must read!

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: Announcing VMware Horizon Mobile

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: TECH PEVIEW — VMware Project Octopus

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: VMware Horizon – Building the Platform for the Post-PC Era

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: TECH PREVIEW – Introducing Projects AppBlast and Octopus – Delivering Universal Cloud Access

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: Smartphones and the New Mobile Workforce (Info Graphic)

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: VMware View 5 with Unified Communications

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: Persona Management in VMware View 5

VMware End User Computing: VMworld 2011: VMware View 5 Advances User-Centric Computing Model Enabling a Better Desktop

VMwareTV: VMworld 2011 – VMware Horizon: Building the Platform for the Post-PC Era

VMwareTV: Mitel View UC

I’m wondering how long this will last on the RingCube/Citrix website.

Link: http://www.ringcube.com/VMware.html

This week I got a chance to work with the new Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 tablet PC. It has no keyboard, so only working with the onscreen keyboard, but it has a connector for a docking station. In my eyes this means that you could use it as a full Windows client in the future. Currently you can’t buy the tablet but it should come in this year. Anyway I had the chance to test it and of course I wanted to know if this is a good device for VDI. The first action after configuring the WLAN was installing the VMware View 4.6 Client for Windows. As the tablet is running a standard Windows 7 at the moment, there was no problem installing the software.

Installaling, connecting, that’s it! It work really well. On the local Windows instance there was already the onscreen keyboard but in the virtual desktop I had to open it first. But this was just cosmetic. A very cool solution! My virtual desktop is hosted at Terremark in Amsterdam and I wanted to know how the audio/video quality will be on the device. Please check the following video for results.

VMware View 4.6 – Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 from Christoph on Vimeo.

Cool, hah?

VMware has released the brand new vSphere iPad client which is now available on iTunes. With that app you can control the virtual machines in your datacenter and view key performance metrics. The client is not a full replacement for the vSphere Windows client but you can do a lot of tasks with it. Eric Sloof wrote a nice article about it which is a good read.

Mark Benson, a View architect from VMware’s CTO office has published a new video about the new VMware Security Server version which supports PCoIP. A great video.

VMware View 4.6 PCoIP Remote Access from Mark Benson on Vimeo.

There is also a new release of VMware’s application virtualization software ThinApp. The new maintenance release 4.6.1 includes more than 160 fixes for known issues. Additionally there are enhancements for Office 2010. With those changes it’s possible to virtualize Office 2010 without any need of separate agents, components or deployment kits. Read the rest of this entry »

The new release of VMware View is here! The new version 4.6 includes new features as well as feature enhancements. The highlights for version 4.6 are the following.

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Teradici just released a new firmware version for their zero clients which are compatible with VMware View. There are loads of improvements for security, performance and also View related enhancements.

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Thanks to some of my colleagues who already posted this great video from Bradford & Airedale on Twitter and Facebook. That video shows the power of VMware View.

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