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Relink VMware ThinApp 4.5 packages for use with View 5 + PCoIP+Smartcard options

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:45:00 0500

If you happen to run into a customer with some 4.5 or older ThinApp packages, you will have some issues when you installed the VMware view agent 5 with smartcard PCoIP options enabled....

VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 ? Enabling Application Assurance across Any Virtual Infrastructure

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:36:00 0500

Today we are very excited to have announced the release of the 3.0 version of our Operations Manager product line. The release is certainly a major undertaking by our development team ? and delivers a host of important, new capabilities to our rapidly growing customer base....

Citrix XenClient Best Practices Series ? Follow-Me-Data for Executive Mobility

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:10:00 0500

Our customers often ask how XenClient and XenDesktop work together. Citrix's vision is to empower people to work from anywhere, on any device. For example, a mobile executive might use XenDesktop while at the office and XenClient while on the road. ...

Controlling VM Sprawl

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:09:00 0500

Virtualization has not only improved hardware efficiency via server consolidation, it has also dramatically reduced the time required to bring a new server online from weeks or months down to hours or even minutes. This ability to bring machines online quickly provides companies with improved business agility. However, as with most improvements, there are also some new issues created which, if not addressed, will reduce a virtual infrastructure's overall efficiency over time....

System Center 2012 Licensing Primer

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:44:00 0500

You may have read the news that Microsoft is making major changes in the 2012 release of the System Center product lineup. First up is a name change for each product. Whereas each product used to be called something along the lines of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, Microsoft is now re-branding these products to tie them even closer to the System Center brand. The aforementioned product, for example, is now named System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager....

VMware Resolution Path KB articles - the best thing since sliced bread

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:00 0500

You're all familiar with the VMware Knowledgebase, but do you know what a Resolution Path KB is? Well, it's a very special kind of KB article, and we've incorporated Mind Maps into them too, but more on that in a minute....

Preventing Brute Force Login Attacks to the Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway or AAA for TM Login Page ? Part 1

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:42:00 0500

One of the more common requests I see is how to prevent brute force login attacks to the Citrix Access Gateway or NetScaler AAA for Traffic Management Login pages. Like many other web applications that have a public facing HTML form used for login, this is an assumed risk....

Big Data and SQL Server: Disruption or Harmony?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:38:00 0500

The SQL Server relational engine matured a long time ago. There have been advances, of course, in performance, fault tolerance and high availability, not mention encryption, compression and file-system integration. And, yes, there's been support for XML, geospatial data and even a service broker. But these have been improvements on the margins. All these features are new flavors of icing; the cake has stayed the same....

RES Software Enters 2012 Following Record-Breaking Year

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:32:00 0500

RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, today announced its record growth for the third consecutive year, with fourth quarter bookings topping $14 million and product license sales up over 30 percent for the year....

Amazon Web Services hosts more than 762 billion objects in S3

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:41:00 0500

The total number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services nearly tripled between 2010 and 2011....

Virtual Computer's Market Momentum Accelerates Growth of Intelligent Desktop Virtualization

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:56:00 0500

Virtual Computer, the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization (IDV), announced that it dramatically accelerated the growth of the IDV market in 2011 and is poised to continue driving the adoption of IDV as a better alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in 2012. While VDI has been heavily promoted by virtualization giants VMware and Citrix, Virtual Computer has demonstrated that IDV offers better performance at a lower cost by combining centralized management with local...

VMWare Seeks To Be Oracle Of The Cloud

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:24:00 0500

A decade ago Oracle was the model for building an enterprise software company....

Kaspersky Lab Selects DataCore Storage Hypervisor to Safeguard Ten Petabytes of Storage and Accelerate Microsoft Hyper-V

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:02:00 0500

DataCore Software, the industry's premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest privately-held Internet security and anti-virus company, has chosen DataCore SANsymphony?-V storage hypervisor software to virtualize and protect its build-out of 10 petabytes of disk storage located in two, separate Moscow data centers. With the SANsymphony-V virtualization layer, Kaspersky Lab has unified the management of its diverse storage systems f...

AppSense Achieves Fifth Straight Year of Record Growth and Expands Operations into APAC and Latin America

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:54:00 0500

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions, today announced record growth for the first half of its financial year 2012, July 1 to December 31, 2011. AppSense increased orders by approximately 46 percent during this period, a result of the significant increase in large deployments and increasing presence in industries beyond the company's strong base in finance, government, healthcare and education. During this same period, AppSense expanded its global workforce by nearly 4...

Quest Partners with Desktone to Deliver Desktops as a Service (DaaS) Built on NetApp

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:30:00 0500

Quest®, one of the nation's leading technology management and consulting firms, today announced it is partnering with Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), to deliver cloud-hosted virtual desktops to the enterprise. By leveraging Desktone's multi-tenant DaaS platform and NetApp's storage systems and management expertise, Quest is able to deliver cost-effective, full-featured virtual desktops to any device on-demand....

IBM's Mobile Strategy, Acquisitions Tackle BYOD Security

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:27:00 0500

IBM's Bob Sutor, the head of the WebSphere Foundation within the company's software unit, blogged his take on two of the company's most recent product announcements, both impacting IBM's mobile goals for the coming months....

VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:16:00 0500

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced version 3.0 of its award-winning platform. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expands heterogeneous hypervisor support to include Citrix XenServer and adds new application performance assurance capabilities. ...

Microsoft Calls on the Amazon Cloud

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:05:00 0500

An open source SDK for developing Windows Phone applications that connect to Amazon Web Services reached beta earlier this month. The Microsoft toolkit provides libraries (C# APIs) and sample code to enable Windows Phone developers to connect existing apps and new projects to Amazon Web Services....

Virtualization Could Save Feds $30 Billion By 2015

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:57:00 0500

Implementing virtualization technology could save the federal government more than $30 billion by 2015, though lack of funding and technical challenges could impede adoption of the technology among all levels of government, according to a new survey....

VMTurbo Increases Multivendor Support in Operations Manager

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:50:00 0500

VMTurbo has gone from startup to big-time virtualization player over the last year, and now the company has launched VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0, representing a maturation of its flagship product with enhanced operational features. ...

Immidio - The Big Question

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:43:00 0500

The start of a new year is one of those moments you can both look back on the previous year and look forward to what lies ahead. Last year was very, very successful for us. We achieved triple digit growth in revenue, customers, licenses and partners!...

Quest Introduces vWorkspace 7.5

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:40:00 0500

Introduces direct support for Microsoft Hyper-V, including FREE Microsoft Hyper-V Server...

Read "Windows 7: How to Formulate a Smart Approach to Application Compatibility Testing and Fixing"

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:58:00 0500

Most companies are facing a daunting question when preparing for a Windows 7 migration: are my applications compatible?...

Upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.0 Best Practices

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:02:00 0500

This article provides information about upgrading to ESXi 5.0. ...

Read "AdminStudio Suite 10.0 Data Sheet"

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:53:00 0500

Powering an Application Readiness Process for Application Migrations and Day-to-Day Application Operations...

TERACAI Deploys Liquidware Labs Solutions to Dramatically Improve Virtual Desktop Performance and Reduce End-User Support Incidents

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:20:00 0500

Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, today announced TERACAI Corporation, a-New York-based accredited VMware® reseller, has deployed the Liquidware LabsDesktop Transformation Solutions for their own internal VDI project....

CA Technologies Announces CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock Platforms

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:00 0500

Stephen Elliot, vice president of product management, CA Technologies, provides a brief overview of CA Private Cloud Accelerator for VblockTM Platforms, a new solution that drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide rapid, predictable and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure and critical IT and business services. This is the company's fifth solution certified for use with VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, all of which are based on our Unified Automation ...

The Cloud Vendor Landscape ? The VMware Advantage According to the Taneja Group

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:41:00 0500

In a recent evaluation of ten of the leading cloud solution vendors (including Microsoft, Red Hat, Amazon, Rackspace and others), the Taneja Group determined that VMware stands out as the clear cloud leader due to its broad portfolio of virtualization and cloud management solutions, service provider ecosystem, and cross-cloud enabling tools and interfaces....

The road to Quest vWorkspace 7.5

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:16:00 0500

As you may have noticed, we just released vWorkspace 7.5 (so yeah, we actually have the product available when we announce it ). This is by far our most comprehensive and biggest release ever. We really think this release of vWorkspace allows customers to change the way they play the desktop virtualization game. Of course, this is just our humble opinion so make sure you see for yourself- we wouldn't have it any other way!...

Quest Releases vWorkspace 7.5 Transforms Desktop Virtualization

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:13:00 0500

Desktop virtualization is changing the way we work today, as more companies of every size opt to deliver a productive and secure Windows workspace wherever their users work. Increasing worker mobility, proliferation of new devices in the workplace, the spread of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and more flexible work styles leave IT professionals seeking a low cost, flexible and efficient solution to deliver and manage a Windows workspace. ...