At the VMworld reception on Sunday evening, I was also able to meet one of my blog sponsors Fara Hain from Zerto. This was a picture from the Zerto booth with Fara, Chris Wahl, and Alaistar Cooke.
Monday, August 26, 2013
VMworld
It has been a great first couple days at VMworld; on my first day I had the pleasure of meeting up with Greg Stuart before the VMworld reception. He was just getting there from the vOdgeball benefit event (sporting the vExpert team shirt). I can't thank him and the sponsors (Nutanix, Veeam, and TrainSignal) enough for giving me the opportunity to attend this year's 10th anniversary VMworld.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Horizon View on LG Spectrum 4G
Here is a picture of my LG Spectrum 4G running Horizon View with Unity Touch and Liquidware Labs Profile Unity. All the applications were installed with ProfileUnity FlexApp.
Horizon Workspace 1.5 Design
Horizon Workspace 1.5 provides end users with a web portal that allows them to access web applications (SaaS), mobile applications, ThinApps, user authored documents, and entitled virtual desktops. The beauty of the solution is that secures your applications and data in your datacenter, while allowing users to access work components from multiple devices from anywhere.
The Applications page displays applications that have been enabled for
your use. From this page, you can securely access these applications
without reentering your sign in credentials.
If you use a computer running Windows, you can access both Windows and Web applications. VMware ThinApp packages that your organization enabled for you display in the Applications tab. If you are not working on a computer running Windows, Windows and ThinApp packages are not displayed.
You can access your Web applications from any device.
You can access your Web applications from any device.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Top Skills to Boost Your Career
Top virtualization skills to boost your career - An infographic by the team at TrainSignal, which is now Pluralsight
Showing Business Value with a Private Cloud
In the past, companies looked to reduce internal expenditures by turning to co-location, outsourcing, and hosting providers. This was driven by the pains of not understand the benefit of technology and trying to reduce costs; owning and operating a data center is an expensive proposition. It requires spending capital on data center superstructure, IT infrastructure, and personnel to manage operations.
I want to share an approach that is simple, uses your current investment in your VMware infrastructure, and can provide a tremendous amount of value to your organization.
Here are some of the key aspects that make up a Private Cloud:
- On-demand
- Self Service
- Pooled resources
- Elastic
- Measurable
- Standardized
- Automated
- Resilient
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Social Media
Recently, a friend of mine asked me about blogging, in
particular why I bothered blogging and does it help a person’s career. A blog
is an excellent hub for your social media presence, and helps to engage your
peers, customers and other audiences.
Technologists are a passionate group; in comparison in the
Winter I am an avid skier, when the leaves start to turn shades of scarlet,
yellow and orange and the wind starts them on their annual ballet toward their
seasonal sleep on the ground, a skier starts to itch to get on the slopes. They
start attending Ski Expos and going to the latest Warren Miller ski films. If
you want to see a passionate group, go to a Warren Miller film at the beginning
of ski season and listen to the cheers and jeers as the professional skiers
perform amazing tricks and teeth clenching crashes.
It is the same for the technology community, they are a
passionate group, they like to involve and support each other. Furthermore,
just like the skier in autumn, it is remarkable to see the excitement build as
VMworld draws near. Everyone is sharing
the sessions they are eager to attend and the après-VMworld events they will be
joining. This isn’t just individuals,
this goes for vendors as well, technology vendors are great sponsors to the blogging
community and to the après-VMworld events.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
VMware Introduces Horizon Workspace 1.5 and New VMware Ready Devices
Yesterday, VMware announced the release of VMware Horizon Workspace 1.5, I plan to have this up and running in my lab in the next couple weeks and I will provide an overview of the changes.
"VMware is making it easier to support the mobile workforce by introducing the general availability of VMware Horizon Workspace™ 1.5, which offers a highly integrated mobile management platform. This release simplifies the experience for both the end user and the IT administrator who must support the mobile worker. Adding to the single, aggregated workspace that combines data, applications and desktops are features such as:
"VMware is making it easier to support the mobile workforce by introducing the general availability of VMware Horizon Workspace™ 1.5, which offers a highly integrated mobile management platform. This release simplifies the experience for both the end user and the IT administrator who must support the mobile worker. Adding to the single, aggregated workspace that combines data, applications and desktops are features such as:
- A single integrated management interface to support Android devices alongside all other components of the workspace with the integration of VMware Horizon Mobile™
- Support for mobile applications to allow admins to entitle and manage applications
- Policy management engine to consolidate, model, and rationalize policies across all components
- Support for the Oracle database
- Revised iOS applications – files and applications in two separate applications
- Localization in French, German, Japanese and simplified Chinese
- Performance improvements and fixes
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