Aug 31
EMC Corporation today announced the winners of the second annualEMC Journey to the Cloud Awards. The awards honor those elite customers and partners… Read more at VMblog.com.
Aug 31
Today at VMworld 2011, Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, announced that the latest version of its award-winning… Read more at VMblog.com.
Aug 31
ScaleXtreme, Inc. , a leading cloud-based systems management company, today announced the general availability of ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme… Read more at VMblog.com.
Aug 31
Today at VMworld 2011, ManageEngine , makers of a globally renowned suite of cost-effective network, systems, applications and security management… Read more at VMblog.com.
Aug 31
Michael J. Ross writes “For decades, programmers have written computer code in one language, and then programmatically translated that code into another, lower-level form (typically machine code that can be run directly by a microprocessor, or some sort of bytecode that can be interpreted by a virtual machine). For instance, source code written in C or C++ is compiled and assembled into machine code. In web programming, there are emerging languages and other tools for translating code into JavaScript. For instance, Google Web Toolkit allows the programmer to create web apps in Java. The latest addition to this category is CoffeeScript, a language that can be compiled into JavaScript, and is intended to reduce source code size and clutter by incorporating some of the best operators from other Web scripting languages, particularly Ruby. It is also the topic of a new tutorial, CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development.” Read on to learn what Michael thinks of this book.
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Aug 31
This case study interview takes aim at ADP Dealer Services and details how they’re benefiting from expanding use of desktop virtualization. We’ll learn about how ADP Dealer Services is enjoying increased security, better management, and higher productivity benefits as they leverage desktop virtualization across their applications development activities.
Naughton: We had an interesting problem to solve. The first issue was developer productivity, which is very important to us, because we do have a big software development engineering house that needs to be productive.
And we had issues where our traditional approach of putting them on the user based plan was not giving them the creativity, flexibility, and productivity they needed to spin up new environments, to have a free workspace so they could do what they needed to create products.
So we thought that a VDI solution, combined with a quick provisioning and deprovisioning for development environments, would make them more productive and protect their normal day-to-day use of email, ERPF, Salesforce automation apps that they might need on the traditional production environment.
Aug 31
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Hands-on Labs continue to push for new records of VM’s created and labs completed. We have started handing out Fast Passes to people who have completed more than 4 labs. (photo shown)
Last year’s “labs completed” leader, Ron Davis (Landmark Healthcare), is again leading the pack of top lab takers with over 15 labs already completed, but closely followed by Natalie Lind (Landmark Healthcare) and Michael Forner (Regional Transportation District).
Here is a look at the top labs completed (as of Tues afternoon):
Here is a look at labs with most VMs created (as of Tues afternoon):
One of the most notable parts to our labs this year is the passion shared by lab attendees. As Steve Herrod, VMware CTO, mentioned in Tuesday’s general session, it’s not always about the technology — it’s about the people. Several lab participants are jumping into the labs at the 7am hour just to be able to share the experience with others who share the same passion.
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Aug 31
Looking to drive another nail in the coffin of the desktop PC, VMware Inc. has announced several new products at VMworld to advance cloud computing and virtualization.
A global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VWware unveiled several new products and cloud-based services today at the Las Vegas convention, all aimed to “help organizations break free from device-centric legacy desktop models and accelerate their journey to a new way to work in the post-PC era.”
Available in a few weeks, VMware View 5 promises to simplify IT manageability and control, while providing a high fidelity desktop virtualization experience. Users can expect to realize protocol enhancements that will provide as much as 75 percent bandwidth improvement over LAN and WAN connections; advanced support of 3D graphics; scalable unified communications integration for voice and video media services; and virtual desktop personalization with integrated persona management.
Aug 31
The City of Pittsburgh decided to embrace virtualization five years or so ago, and we did this in a development environment with VMware. The confidence was not there for the server virtualization, and we decided it’s a good place to offer development to our internal engineers.
From there, we kept building and building, and we decided to put our first production system on there. Without a problem, everything started going. What virtualization had to offer for us was higher availability, higher reliability.
When we were remote, we had full console access. We were able to offer higher reliability on our development than our production. That was what led us to go to production. It’s very difficult in this day and age with budgets and all that. We’re now doing more with less. In order to be able to accommodate that and be able to handle the increased workload with fewer people, it has been embracing server virtualization, and virtualization in general.
Aug 31
The webinars in this track include topics such as instant PoCs and demos; acceleration of the sales cycle and time to revenue; advances in server application distribution across an application’s lifecycle; and a non-engineering approach to “SaaSification” of ISV solutions. Similarly, webinars in the technical track are clearly labeled as “technical drill downs” covering the how-to of quickly moving and deploying well-known industry offerings such as SAP, WebLogic, and .NET applications.