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1 Workday Full Performance 55% Less Power

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This morning, I had this video that shows VMware’s Distributed Power Management (DPM) in action come across my inbox this morning.  DPM is an idea that is easy to understand but hard to visualize at times, this video makes DPM crystal clear.  It was created by a number of VMware engineers just before VMworld 2008.

Today, every enterprise is looking at ways to save money and help the environment…turning off the computers (in this case expensive power sucking servers) when they are not needed is an easy way to achieve both.

Update: For some reason the formatting of the blog theme is messing with the embedding of the video. I’ll work on fixing this in the next day. Until then, click through on first link for video directly from YouTube.

Update 2: Formatting was adjusted, the inline video should no longer looked “squished”.

Ghost: VDI for the Masses

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Yesterday, while listening to Marketplace on NPR, I head a story about an interesting joint Israel-Palestinian tech start-up called g.ho.st.  I found this interesting for two reasons: first, that the company consists of both Israeli and Palestinian employees.  The fact that you have both people working together to create something is a great sign and something that their governments could learn from as a means of creating a more lasting peace in the region.

Second, that the service they are creating, a “global hosted operating system” is essentially the concept of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for the masses.  While VDI has classically been used by enterprises for their internal desktops, the idea behind g.ho.st is to extend the reliability of VDI to the consumer.  Imagine moving not just your data but your entire desktop into the cloud.  And then being able to acess that desktop from any web browser (or cell phone?)…that’s the idea behind g.ho.st.

While it’s not a solution for everyone (I doubt a power user like myself will be moving their desktop up to the cloud anytime soon), the general idea does have value to many computers users today.  This is something that will take some time for users to adopt, even longer than cloud based apps in my mind, but is what I believe to be the wave of the future.

I’ll try to take a closer look at g.ho.st in the coming weeks and post more more thorough review based upon what they have in their current alpha state.

Just not sure how the privacy laws would apply to this.  The law is always the lagard in technology innovation like this…

VMware View 3 Released

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Today VMware announced the general availability of VMware View 3.  VMware View is more than just the next release and rebranding of VMware’s VDI solution, it is the first step in the vClient initiative that was announced at VMworld 2008.

VMware View 3 is the solution that allow corporate desktops to be centrally managed and run from within the data center.  VMware View consists of the following pieces:

  • VMware View Composer – utilizes Linked Clone technology to speed the creation of virtual desktops while reducing the operating cost of the desktops through utilizing less storage
  • VMware ThinApp – enables simplified application packaging and deployment to virtual desktops and allows the application layer to be separated from the Operating System layer
  • Offline Desktop – provides the flexibility to intelligently and securely move virtual desktops between the data center and a local laptop or desktop (experimental mode only)
  • Unified Access – provides end users with a single point of access to seamlessly connect to their desktop environment and administrators with a single point of administration
  • Virtual Printing – enables end users to print to any local or network printer without installing specific printer drivers
  • Multimedia Redirection – improves the user experience with rich multimedia playback capabilities processed remotely in the data center and delivered to the end user’s device

In the past few weeks I have been briefing a number of my Fortune 500 clients on the VMware View solution for managing their desktops.  VMware View allows them to reduce not only their capital expenditures but also their operational expenditures while providing a much more secure and robust desktop experience to their end users.  These same benefits can be applied to companies large and small.  VMware even provides a TCO/ROI calculator that incorporates all the new benefits of VMware View 3, so you can measure the benefits yourself.

I’ll be sharing more of my experiences working with these customers and VMware View in the comming months.