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I recently became a Twit on Twitter, and have been tweeting about my IT experiences with several new connections. In doing so, I came across a tweet about a contest to win some free training, specifically VMware View 5 Essentials from @TrainSignal – sweet! Below is a screen capture of the tweet: A jump over to the link …

The VMware View Client for iPad is now available on the app store. This long-awaited release rides the coattails of View 4.6′s recent release. It supports the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which are sold seperately from the iPad, as well as the Apple video ouput dongle. Both of these make iPad+View an even more …

Last week VMware released its highly anticpated VMware View 4.6, leaving VMware View 4.5′s user friendly set up and easy to use interface in the rearview. Yet there was one important feature which didn’t make the cut to version 4.6: PCoiP desktop connections through the Security Server. VMware View 4.5 introduced this feature to the table and provided what I …

Storage overcommit is one of the strongest selling points of VMware View. It is available in vSphere, and it allows you to overcommit storage of Linked Clones, which in turn allows for more desktops to be stored on a datastore allocated to View. The caveat of this architecture is that the administrator must be diligent in his …

I truly believe Virtual Desktops is here! I feel that in 2010 we are going to see large scale adoption of Virtual Desktops in the workstation space. The struggling economy and companies tightening budgets on infrastructure and staffing Virtual Desktops really makes sense.