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Abracadabra! Horizon Mirage 4.2 Help Desk web console for fulfilling user requests

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By Tina de Benedictis, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware 

A primary new feature offered in Horizon Mirage 4.2 is a Help Desk web console. This web console enables Help Desk personnel to easily fulfill common user requests, such as desktop recovery and incremental backups, always with the zero-touch style of Horizon Mirage. The Horizon Mirage Web Manager transforms Help Desk personnel into magicians!

Magic Hat and Wand

The new web console allows Horizon Mirage Help Desk personnel to perform the following actions on selected devices:

  • Enforce Layers
  • Set Drivers (device drivers)
  • Reboot
  • Suspend
  • Synchronize (synchronize the current endpoint with the backup image)
  • Collect Logs
  • Restore (restore desktop from a backup image)
  • Revert to Snapshot (restore to a particular snapshot of the desktop)
  • Note (enter notes about a device)

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Introducing VMware Ready Devices on Verizon Wireless

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By Srinivas Krishnamurti, Senior Director of mobile product management, End-User Computing, VMware




Today I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of two VMware Ready devices – LG Intuition and Razr M by Motorola – on Verizon Wireless.  These devices are now equipped with VMware’s virtualization technology required to run our dual personal solution, VMware Horizon Mobile.  This is an important milestone for VMware as we deliver on our end-user computing vision of managing users, not devices.  We will continue to work closely with Verizon Wireless to enable a broad set of new and existing devices to be VMware Ready. You might be asking yourself what is a VMware Ready device?  Well, in this blog I will provide a quick overview of Horizon Mobile and VMware Ready program.

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Blazing New Trails with Horizon Workspace

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By Moe Khosravy, Vice President of Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware

 

 

A quarter has almost passed since we first introduced Horizon Suite and VMware continues to be the only vendor in the market offering a suite with a level of integration unmatched by any other solution.

The industry is beginning to acknowledge our efforts and leadership in end-user computing, most recently in CITEworld with an article titled “The audacious vision of VMware Horizon: Manage access, not devices,” among many others that have also highlighted our brave new approach. But it doesn’t stop there.

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The Rise of the Multi-Device Workspace

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By Ben Goodman, Lead Evangelist for Horizon, End-User Computing, VMware

The IT world never stands still. External forces are always conspiring to ensure that change is the only constant for IT organizations.

It seems like just yesterday that IT spent most of its time focusing on only managing – employees. IT supported desktops that were owned by the company and were running company owned software. Those desktops traversed company-owned networks to company-developed applications, running on a company-owned server in a datacenter owned and operated at the company. It was in this more centralized world where IT often had to implement unwieldy tools that were predicated on control and management through ownership. But departments, end users and many use cases were often underserved. (See blog: What Rogue Users and Cloud Services Can Teach IT)

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Top 5 Predictions for 2013 UC with VDI

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by:  Geoffrey Murase, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager End User Computing

In 2012, many prognosticators predicted that the end of the world would occur in December 2012 based on the end of the Mayan calendar.  Well, that date has come and gone and we’re still here so let’s venture to forecast what 2013 has in store for us with respect to unified communications (UC) in a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

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VMware View Client for Windows Store

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We are very pleased to introduce a preview of the VMware View Client for Windows Store. This Windows Store client will run in the tiled view of Windows RT and Windows 8.

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VMware Dominates Reader’s Choice Award

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By: Ben Goodman, Product Line Marketing Manager, EUC Cloud Marketing

At VMware we take tremendous pride in our products and like any software company, we covet positive reviews from press and analysts. However, the real proof that we are building quality products that solve real customer problems is through happy customers. That is why we are extremely proud of the recent spade of reader’s choice award wins customers have selected VMware end-user computing products for in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Virtualization Review.

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VMware View Client 1.6 for iOS and Android Now Available!

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by Pat Lee Director, End User Clients & Michael Shen Product Manager, Mobile Clients

We are very excited to release our latest VMware View Clients for iOS and Android.

Now Supports the iPhone Including the iPhone 5!

You can now connect to your VMware View desktop from your iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, or iPhone 5 in addition to your iPad. With a user experience optimized for the iPhone, including the latest iPhone 5, you can easily work with the VMware View client with just one hand.

iPhone Client Optimized Menus

Need to check a meeting location or a sales report and don’t have your laptop? No problem, just pull out your iPhone and easily connect to your VMware View desktop. The iOS VMware View client gives you immediate mobile access to your View desktop any time, anywhere.

Presentation Mode on the iPhone

Forget lugging a heavy laptop to a meeting for a presentation, just use the VMware View client to make any last minute edits to your presentation and connect your iPhone to the projector.

Our unique Presentation Mode makes the iPhone screen into a controller for your presentation while displaying the presentation on an external monitor or wirelessly to your AppleTV using AirPlay.

iPhone Client Presentation Mode

Ready for iOS 6 and Retina Displays

The new VMware View client works well on iOS 6 and it looks even better with updated artwork for the new iPad with Retina display.

What’s New in the VMware View Client for Android

The new Android client works with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, the latest Android releases. Upgrade your Android devices to Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean confident that you can seamlessly connect to your VMware View desktop.

Android Client Running Jelly Bean

Easier to Login with Integrated RSA Soft Token

The new Android client now features RSA soft token integration, which greatly simplifies the log in process. You no longer need to switch between a separate RSA app and the View Client. Simply import the RSA token and authenticate with your PIN.

Go Directly to Your View Desktop from the Android Home Screen

Tired of launching the client for a specific View desktop? No problem, you can put shortcuts to your favorite View desktops right on your Android home screen.

View Desktop Shortcut on Samsung Galaxy SIII

Download the New Clients Today

We are excited to release our latest iOS and Android clients for VMware View. The new clients are available today from the iOS App Store, the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore for Android.

We hope you enjoy the new mobile VMware View Clients for iOS and Android!

 

VMworld 2012: VMware Horizon Suite – Get the Details

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By Ben Goodman, Horizon Lead Evangelist, End-User Computing

It’s a very exciting time. Today, at VMWorld 2012 we began previewing the alpha version of the VMware Horizon Suite. Horizon is a platform that we believe makes it easier for both administrators to manage the challenges associated with mobility, cloud, and employee BYOD while also providing the most productive and enjoyable computing experience on the devices your internal customers choose.

We’ve discussed the challenges associated with the rise of consumerized IT and cloud computing numerous times previously, so there’s no sense in going into that today. But I wanted to take the time to bring this to your attention because today does mark a very big step forward in our vision of how to successfully manage these challenges.

And this really is a significant step. This is because the VMware Horizon Suite brings together many of the technologies here at VMware – Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware Horizon Application Manager and VMware Horizon Mobile, as well as the management of VMware View. This not only includes VMware technologies, but also software that runs on Windows and applications delivered via Citrix XenApp, for example. Think about this: for the first time ever end users can launch and run XenApp applications right next to their ThinApp applications.

This makes it possible for enterprises to get the consistent governance they need, while workers enjoy separate personal and business workspaces and consistent access to applications and data on any personal device.

Through a central Web management console, the VMware Horizon Suite enables IT to customize a service catalog for all company data and applications. Horizon Suite will understand a user’s attributes and environment (device, location and connectivity level) and then enforce policies across applications, data, and devices. This will make it possible for you to deliver Windows, Android, iOS, web and SaaS applications in a single workspace and give your users self-service access to applications and data from anywhere.

With Horizon Suite, end users can also securely access and share their data and files from any device.

With the IT management complexities that come with workers turning to more applications on phones, tablets, notebooks, and desktops -  admins need to be able to manage and orchestrate all of this access in a centralized way. Horizon Suite enables you to do exactly that – the delivery of IT apps and data to end users anywhere and on any device. Horizon can do this because Horizon manages from the middle, rather than the endpoint, through identity, context, and policy. And through its web console, IT can deliver a customized service catalog to users so they can select delivery of on-demand Windows, Mobile, SaaS, and Web-based applications to end-users on any device.

And that’s the power here: the security, governance, and manageability enterprises need while also providing all of the freedoms of choice and work style associated with the BYOD and consumerization of IT trends.

I invite you to learn more about Horizon Suite, and you can do that:

VMworld 2012: Introducing VMware Horizon Suite – The Integrated Platform for Workforce Mobility

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By Vittorio Viarengo, Vice President, Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware

As I said before, code rules!!!! Today I am super excited to introduce the alfa release of the VMware Horizon suite, the Platform for Workforce Mobility.

Last year at VMworld, we unveiled our vision for End User Computing and in May we showed progress across all axis of that vision, that is Desktop, Apps and Data, by shipping a new version of View, Horizon Application Manager and the beta release of Octopus for secure file syncing and sharing.

Since then, our engineering team has been very busy bringing these components together into a one, integrated and cohesive suite. It’s hard work, don’t try to do this at home (nor should you have to do it), but we believe it is the right thing to do in the long run.

The VMware Horizon Suite provides end user with a single place to get access to their apps, data and desktops and gives IT a single management console to manage entitlements policies and security.

Here is a rough demo I took from my laptop and iPad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqO97j3chGU

This alpha integrates both Horizon Application manager, the project formerly known as Octopus. It will also feature the HTML remoting technologies that we demoed last year as part of the AppBlast project. In this first release we will use the HTML remoting protocol to give user access to their View desktops from any browser but stay tuned for more exciting ways we are going to leverage this technology.

I am not sure if people caught this during the demo on stage, but we are also going to support the ability to entitle and access XenApp published apps using the Horizon Suite and client.

We expect the beta to be available later this year and I cannot wait to get this in the hands of our customers!

To see this and other blog posts by Vittorio Viarengo, visit Journey to The Cloud.