On an occasional slow night when the SF Giants are struggling to score more than two runs in 11 + innings, I catch-up on my reading with the game on in the background. The VMware blogs provide a ton of content and from time-to-time I come across something that I miss and want to pass on.
During VMworld, Steve Herrod, Chief Technology Officer, VMware, pointed to a few of his show highlights. He shared the following on VMware's End-User Computing business:
Liberating IT and End Users from Legacy Silos:
As we enter the post-PC era we all know the pressures the consumer world is placing on enterprise IT. Employees expect their experience to be equal to their home life and they expect it “to just work” on whatever device they choose. And if it doesn’t….well, they’ll take things into their own hands creating a security, management, and compliance nightmare.
Now this is easy to talk about but very, very difficult to crack. At VMworld we demonstrated a complete solution that gives IT a fighting chance — helping customers bring forward legacy Windows environments with the full-featured View 5 delivering updates to our Horizon Application Manager platform, enabling both a secure corporate and personal persona on users’ mobile devices with Horizon Mobile, and advancing universal application and data delivery with Project AppBlast and Project Octopus. VMware’s vision seeks to free employees and enterprise IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing, and delivers a more user-centric, IT-as-a-service experience. I’m using most of these new products internally via our “dogfood” program and am loving it. (Some trivia: Our own Paul Maritz is attributed as being the first to run “dogfood” programs in software companies!)
Read the full post on VMworld highlighs in Steve Herrod's VMworld blog…
As an aside… The Giants won tonight (3-2 over San Diego) with Mark DeRosa hitting a single in the 12 to score the winning run.
