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The History of VDI

June 27, 2011

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Update on 7/24/212. I received a comment herein included from Scott that dug a PR from 2006 where Citrix  introduced a desktop broker in 2006. I added a link to that PR in the timeline. You can see Scott’s message in the comments below. ——————– One of the many perks of working at VMware is […]

VMware Ready Desktop Solutions

June 22, 2011

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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. […]

Virtual Desktop Vendor Preference

June 20, 2011

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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 […]

Where does the TCO for VDI come from?

June 16, 2011

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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 […]

VDI Market Shares

June 13, 2011

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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 […]

The VMware View Team is Hiring

June 7, 2011

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Hi, we are hiring engineers and product managers in the VMware View team. If you are passionate about building great products that people want to use, you are smart and get things done (in other words, if you care and kick butt), please apply for a job with us!!!! here is the promotional video where […]

Welcome Brian Gammage!!!!

June 2, 2011

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Last month Brian Gammage joined the VMware End User Computing team from Gartner where he was Vice President and Research Fellow covering client computing and desktop virtualization for many years. Brian is one of the most knowledgeable and well respected analysts in this field and it is an honor to have him in our team […]

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