Today at VMworld during Herrod keynote we unveiled our EUC strategy and announced the latest release of View: 5.0. View 5.0 is a cornerstone of our EUC platform for the Post-PC era. That’s right!! With shipments of tablets and smartphones outpacing PCs since last year and 1.1B cell phones and 300M tablets projected to be… [Read more…]
August 2, 2011
A couple of weeks back, we announced our Q2 financial results. If you missed it, you can read the transcript from Seeking Alpha. Overall, Q2 was a great quarter overall and for our the End-User Computing team. A couple of things worth highlighting from Q2: We closed the largest View deal ever – Q2 saw… [Read more…]
July 28, 2011
Today I had the opportunity to discuss VDI protocols on a panel with Citrix and Quest at the Gartner Catalyst conference. My thanks to Chris Wolf and Gartner for the opportunity. I took the chance to officially announce that the next release of VMware View will feature a new version of PCoIP that brings down… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
In this previous post, I talked about the work that the View engineering team has been doing over the last 18 months to set the foundation for our client releases. We needed to decouple our client release train from the server release train to become nimbler in addressing the always evolving mobile client market. This… [Read more…]
June 27, 2011
One of the many perks of working at VMware is to work with some of the people who have written a (important) piece of computing history. We still have many of the original principal engineers from the early days of the company and few of them even wave at me when I run into them… [Read more…]
June 22, 2011
Today we launched the View-based Federal Teleworker solution which is the first instance of our newly introduced VMware Ready Desktop Solution program. We have been producing reference architecture documents with our hardware partners for a long time now and we also have validation programs for things like thin clients. Our customers have asked for more.… [Read more…]
June 20, 2011
Update: click here for 2011 data. In this previous post, I shared some data from Morgan Stanley about current VDI deployments that shows VMware and Citrix having an even 40%-40% shares of the installed base. Clearly a very competitive market where customers benefit from the resulting pressure to innovate on both vendors. How will this… [Read more…]
June 16, 2011
In a previous post I shared some research we have carried out to figure out what the most important factors that customers take into account when it come to choosing a VDI solution. The top factor is manageability which happens to be a core strength of VMware View 4.6 and one of the main reasons… [Read more…]
June 13, 2011
Over the last couple of years the buzz and expectations around the Virtual Desktop market have increased steadily. One of the questions that I am asked frequently is how big the market is and who has the biggest share of it Given how blurred the line between Legacy App Publishing and VDI has become, it… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
As I blogged in the past, the desktop virtualization market is growing very rapidly but we are still in the early stages. At VMware we are blessed to have a very large customer base who seem to really like us and root for us. We never take it for granted. They have been on a… [Read more…]
August 29, 2011
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