The VMware Express was unveiled today at the 2010 Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, NV and I have to say that we here on the View team are very excited to see it hit the road. As you can probably tell from the picture above, the VMware Express is a big truck but it’s not your normal everyday rig. Oh no… this one is chock full of all kinds of VMware goodness. The VMware Express is a datacenter and demo environment on wheels and it will be crossing the U.S. and Canada over the next year letting you, our customers get hands on with the latest and greatest technologies in your own back yard.
A good deal of the demos are dedicated to the VMware View solution which is why we’re so excited to see it hit the road. We hope that you’re as excited as we are about this and we look forward to hearing your experiences and feedback as it stops at a location near you. For more information on the VMware Express see the post here. It has a nice overview of the View demos you'll be able to see:
VMware View
Best User Experience – Highlighting the power of the
PCoIP display protocol to deliver a rich user experience, perfectly
adapted for the network connection and end-point device.Follow-Me Desktop – Enabling immediate access
to desktops, applications and data while ensuring a consistent user
experience across sessions and endpoint devices.Access Across Boundaries – Providing access to desktops, applications and data anytime, anywhere regardless of network availability.
Windows 7 Migration – Reducing the costs and complexity associated with desktop and application migration.
Style over substance. If you can’t build good technology, sell style.
Why do you need a truck to drive around the country showing virtual desktops which, by definition, should be available anywhere?
Are you buying carbon offsets for this trip?
Brian,
For lots of customer meetings you’re right. We have account teams and partners hitting central demo setups every day and this is very effective and continues to happen. The truck however let’s us expand the experience beyond just showing a desktop and the admin interface to being able to show multi-desktop demos and different scenarios side by side. It also enables us to support our partners with a consistent experience across events. In addition we’re highlighting not only VMware desktop and server solutions but also products from our technology partners (a lot of which is hardware).
As for the carbon offsets, we’re in the process as we finalize the route/dates/locations of the tour.
I guess you have to put it in the truck because PCoIP does not go across firewalls without a 3rd party VPN solution.
I guess that’s how you mask it with all the hype. How about do some real homework and get the PCoIP work with your security server first?
what else is in the truck? blades, storage, thin clients, etc.? do you have any pics of the inside?
Nice Truck. We have one too. Anyone in Texas who wants to have us come out and give a View demo can contact us.
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Who is the marketing genius that create this stuff???
A truck, that suggest the idea of weight, to carry around “fluid” and light as air virtual desktops?
Are they kidding?
Do we need a truck to carry around agile and volatile and light as air virtual desktops ?
Who is the marketing genius that created that?
A big truck suggests the idea of weight, the opposite a fluid desktop would be.
this is quite ridiculous marketing idea.
Please use money in serious R&D regarding pcoip and view4 instead of playing with toy-trucks….