Posts by: bsuhr
VMware updates Horizon and ThinApp to allow for self-service Windows app delivery
This morning VMware announced updates to ThinApp and VMware Horizon to allow for Windows application delivery via the Horizon portal. In case you are wondering what Horizon is, it's a web based portal for application delivery. Before today it was only able to delivery access to SaaS based or Web applications. With the latest updates you can now deliver ThinApp packages to users with the Horizon agent on their PC. This provides a self-service option for application delivery.
So some of you may be asking how is this different than assigning ThinApp packages within VMware View? Below is a quote from VMware on the two processes.
Entitlement to Horizon-enabled ThinApp packages can be based on Active Directory groups or on groups that you create within Horizon. With ...
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My brush with the brightest minds of VMware at a private CTO event
I was one of a lucky group of 100 people that received a private invite to attend a reception with VMware CTO and many other great and high ranking VMware executives. You probably are asking how did I get such an exclusive invite. Well as a recipient of the VMware vExpert award for 2011 my name was placed in a random drawing of the 332 vExperts and I was one of the lucky one hundred people.
So the event was held at the Wynn hotel next door to the VMworld conference. There was a huge list of people that are well known in the VMware and Virtualization industry. This was all made possible by Stephen Herrod the CTO of VMware. He put on the event and ...
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Recent storms revitalize the need for Virtual Desktops
Just this week Chicago was rocked by a monster storm that knocked out power to 800,000 plus customers. This surely impacted a great number of businesses and homes. I personally was without power at home for 30 hours. I was able to continue to work by powering my home with a generator and some trips to the local Starbucks. But what would a business do if they are impacted by an extended outage?
So I ask the people reading this, how would your business be able to respond today if a large group of your end users were not able to work at their office for an extended period of time? This could be due to a ...
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