VMware Acquires VDI Software Maker RTO
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The RTO team of 12 employees will be incorporated immediately into VMware and become part of the company’s desktop business unit. VMware and RTO had been in a partnership since last fall, when VMware announced at VMworld that it would integrate RTO’s Virtual Profiles management tool into its VMware View platform.
VMware, which continues to expand its market reach outside of the server virtualization sector that it currently dominates, said in a blog
post on its Website Feb. 23 that it has acquired software management toolmaker RTO Software.
Financial details were not disclosed.
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Leostream Tames VDI Connection
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Leostream 6.3 adds management tools that ease virtual desktop infrastructure implementation.
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REVIEW: Leostream Connects VDI
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Leostream Connection Broker gains Web view to enable virtual desktop access while easing multivendor VDI implementation tasks.
- In a virtual desktop deployment, the connection broker is the component that brings users and back-end resources together. It is a part of VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtual desktop infrastructure implementations. But what happens in organizations with really large numbers of virtual desktops available.
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ANALYSIS: VDI Vies to Host Client Workloads
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The technology is advancing that enables once-powerful and now-weak desktop systems to be repurposed to host virtual desktop systems running modern operating systems.
So-called at clients are here for the foreseeable future. But is it possible and cost-effective for organizations to transition from far-flung and historically hard-to-maintain desktops to virtual desktops stored in a central data center?
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Making Desktop Virtualization Work with VDI
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Tech Analysis: VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, promises to reduce the effort and cost of enterprise desktop management, but be careful how you implement it.
There is no denying that virtualization is a hot topic in enterprise IT, but when it comes to adoption rates, not all types of virtualization
are created equal. While it would be difficult to think of an enterprise that hasn’t embraced, or at least piloted, server virtualization.
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How to Manage Capacity in Virtualized Environments
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Virtualization introduces a new capacity management paradigm, forcing IT administrators to reassess how they currently plan and manage data center capacity. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rob Smoot discusses various capacity management methods, explaining why capacity management is important, and how it differs in the physical world versus a virtualized one.
With virtualization, data center resources are shared in an adaptive, large communal pool of dynamic capacity. Because capacity is shared, there is a ripple effect in the data center cluster; when one application or virtual machine zigs, others must zag in response since capacity is
finite.
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Tech Dinosaurs of Years Past
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Todays top products might end up in tomorrows scrap heap.
While coming up with my suggested contributions for this weeks 25 Technologies that Changed the ’00s (which I like to call the “Naughties”), I considered whether product or technology played a significant role in my day to day operations for a portion of the decade, and how much
stayin…
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PCs Litter the Path to VDI
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The option to use virtual desktops is becoming more feasible, but stiff hardware requirements, steep licensing costs and cloud alternatives should give IT managers pause about the technology.
Although I’m keeping my Mac desktop systems, I’m dumping my Windows desktop system and using a thin client and VMware’s View 4 virtual desktop infrastructure for my Windows needs.
In some ways, this is just a continuation of my Windows desktop evolution since
I’ve been running a Windows XP v…
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VMware Beats Street Forecasts in Q4 Earnings Report
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VMware reports its revenue increased 18 percent to 8 million in the fourth quarter, substantially above the average analyst forecast of 4 million. The virtualization company also reports profit of 31 cents a share, which beat the average analyst forecast of 26 cents.
- Virtualization software maker VMware on Jan. 25 dazzled Wall Street with its quarterly results and cautiously predicted that its sales and licensing income growth could more than double in 2010 over the previous year if the economy continues to improve.
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REVIEW: VMware View 4’s New Transport Protocol Increases Usefulness, Performance of VDI Platform
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VMware View 4 uses a specialized transport protocol to squeeze out lag time and significantly increase the number of monitors supported by the virtual desktop. The VMware View 4 platform worked well in eWEEK Labs’ tests–delivering full desktop and application functionality to a variety of endpoint systems, including thin clients, Linux-based systems and older Windows-based PCs. VMware View centralizes OS and application management tasks while significantly reducing help desk calls by preventing end-user tampering with desktop systems. However, IT managers must balance those savings against the platform’s costs.
VMware View enables enterprises to deliver centrally managed virtual Windows XP and Vista desktops, and now uses a specialized
transport protocol to squeeze out lag time and significantly increase the number of monitors supported by the virtual desktop
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