Hosts
John Troyer, @jtroyer
Alex Maier, @vmwarecommunity
Guests
Ben Goodman, VMware @benontech
Rory Clements, VMware
Link to Audio Recording
Horizon App Manager, View Reference Architecture
Virtualization News (VMTN Blog)
Project Serengeti, which is a highly available, managed Hadoop platform
VMware 2012 ChannelPro-SMB Readers’ Choice Awards in the category of Best Virtualization Vendor
Register NOW for VMworld Europe, which is taking place in Barcelona
Contest guess who will be playing at the VMworld 2012 party in San Francisco #VMworldBand
Alex thinks the #VMworldBand is Justin Bieber – well, uh, maybe…
VMUG full-day user conferences are all the rage this month – Locate one near you
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VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 Now Generally Available!
VMware Horizon Application Manager – Product Page
What is VMware Horizon Application Manager?
Simplifies IT by centralizing application management in the post-pc era – Now IT can unify management of any SaaS, Web and Windows applications through the Horizon Application Catalog to securely deliver them to end-users on the device of their choice, increasing their flexibility while reducing the cost of complexity.
VMware Horizon Application Manager can be hosted or on premise
On-premise can be purchased by channel partners
Any Windows application can be launched through Horizon
[VMware EUC Blog] VMware EUC Portfolio: VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5
Design technical resources for VMware View
IBM Launching their new reference architecture
Reference Architecture is about scale and performance
Deployment Sizes – day to day 1000 desktops – swings to 300,000 government deployment
Consider virtualizing apps first (Thinapp), then move to VDI (View)
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