VMware Industry Overview: VMware End User Computing and VMware View Updates

As the afterglow of VMworld 2011 begins to fade, don’t overlook all that’s happening in VMware. 

View 5 announced at VMworld. VMware announces View 5, just one of the trailblazing tools introduced to help organizations optimize their operations in the post PC-era. Among the many benefits, View 5 will deliver a higher degree of innovation and simplicity with protocol enhancements, advanced 3D graphics, scalable unified communications and integrated persona management. View 5 will streamline IT manageability and control – boasting as much as a 75 percent bandwidth improvement over LAN and WAN connections. Check out the 5 Amazing New Features of VMware View 5 and learn more about View 5 and the other VMworld 2011 product announcements.

EUC Keynote demos. The major focus of VMworld 2011 was End User Computing and the showcase of VMware’s extensive portfolio of EUC products and platforms. See the EUC Keynote demos from VMWorld here.

Horizon Application Manager + ThinApp. Vmware’s Horizon Application Manager has been updated so that it can quickly discover and aggregate Windows applications virtualized with VMware ThinApp. Once aggregated, IT admins use Horizon Application Manager to deliver and manage virtual Windows apps together with cloud/SaaS apps as part of Horizon’s unified application catalog. User access is controlled by IT via strong policy management that delivers real-time application usage data for unprecedented operational visibility and license management. VMware is currently seeking beta candidates in the public sector to have the opportunity to navigate the new version and provide feedback. If interested in taking advantage of this opportunity please visit here: http://www.horizonmanager.com/beta

Horizon Mobile. Horizon Mobile Manager was recently announced which is a product that will allow public sector/ corporate IT administrators to establish and securely manage an employee’s connected mobile workspace in isolation from their personal mobile environment. View some of the key capabilities of Horizon Mobile.

Training and Enablement:

• FREE VMware View Training Bootcamp for Customers and Partners – The sessions from July 19 to July 29 are now available on-demand. Four new sessions will also be added to the bootcamp pages in the coming weeks around persona, troubleshooting View, DR architectures and UC.

  This 9-part training is a series of 45 minute youtube videos that will be available on the VMware communities and will take you through how to get started and successfully roll out and deploy virtual desktops and applications. Sessions cover everything from storage and networking best practices to PCoIP tuning and optimizing your base image. VMware's new security server for PCoIP will also be touched on and how you can take advantage of powershell to write your own scripts for View.