VMware and Desktone Partner to Provide Desktop-as-a-Service Solution
VMware and Desktone, Inc. are partnering to deliver a new desktop-as-a-service solution that aims to make it easier for service providers to offer full-featured and cost-effective virtual desktops. “Delivering DaaS on a large scale requires a fully automated, self-service solution that can scale in a cost-effective way,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of end-user computing [...]
VMware, virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider, has appointed Sam Tayan regional director for the Middle East and North Africa region. Tayan will work out of Dubai to deliver VMware’s sales strategy and customer service operations. Tayan will work closely with customers driving VMware’s cloud and virtualization solutions, enabling organizations to lower cost and enhance security. [...]
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Earlier this week at VMworld 2011, VMware announced its strategic collaboration with Samsung to deliver virtual desktops to mobile devices and enable a new class of dual persona devices. The companies intend to integrate VMware View and VMware Horizon Mobile with Samsung mobile devices including Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 creating a mobile virtual platform. “Individuals have resoundingly voted for [...]
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Earlier this week at VMworld 2011, VMware and Cisco announced new technology innovations and enhancements to their combined virtualization solutions that will help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. The companies unveiled a breakthrough in network virtualization, VXLAN, which will broaden the mobility range of virtual machines across multiple data centers and cloud environments. [...]
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Paul Maritz, VMWare CEO, spoke at VMWorld 2011 about the end of the desktop computer era and the beginning of the cloud infrastructure era. The desktop computer is ill-suited for today’s workforce and customers should move away from keeping data on one device, Maritz said. During remarks at VMworld in Las Vegas, Maritz said cloud infrastructure is [...]
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Symantec and VMware Deliver Desktop-as-a-Service Solutions: Chirantan Desai Comments
August 31, 2011 No CommentToday at VMworld 2011, Symantec and VMware announced an expansion on their strategic partnership to define and architect Desktop-as-a-Service solutions. Their goal is to provide secure, pre-integrated and well-managed desktop computing environments for enterprises and IT service provides. This initiative will leverage VMware virtual desktop and cloud infrastructure solutions such as VMware vSphere 5 with [...]
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Today at VMworld 2011, CSC announced its virtual desktop portfolio expansion which will now include a new series based upon VMware View 5 running on the Vblock platform from VCE. The expansion offers more ways in which users with differing work styles can access their applications and date from a wide arrange of networked devices [...]
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Today at VMworld 2011, Symantec announced new V-Ray technology enhancements to Backup Exec 2010 to provide organizations with greater visibility into both their physical and virtual environment with a single backup solution. The latest version of Backup Exec 2010 will support the upcoming VMware vSphere 5 and will integrate with Symantec ApplicationHA to predict and trigger [...]
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Symantec Leading Storage and Availability Products for VMware Environments
August 29, 2011 No CommentToday at VMworld 2011, Symantec announced broad support across its storage and availability product portfolio for the VMware industry leading virtualization and cloud platform. In utilizing Symantec’s storage and platform management within VMware environments, customers can easily virtualize their business critical applications with full support for application availability, better and more powerful storage as well [...]
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Today at VMworld 2011, VMware announced a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a database as a service model for the enterprise. VMware vFabric Data Director will give IT the ability to control and manage a growing set of heterogeneous databases through policy-based automation. According to VMware, vFabric will also extend the [...]
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