RSSVMware Forms Virtualization Alliance
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 24, 2006, 3:07 PM
Banding together with companies such as IBM, HP, Hitachi and Sun, VMware announced Monday the creation of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance. The group will help VMware promote its virtualization solutions, and the company will work with each partner to build joint offerings.
VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is designed to enable businesses to deploy thin-clients instead of full desktop workstations, which would use remote desktop capabilities linked to virtual machines. "Just as the Web has transformed many applications into a hosted service, virtualization is transforming the entire desktop into a server hosted environment that is always on, dynamically scalable and centrally secured and managed," said Brian Byun, VMware's vice president of products and alliances.
Everything old is new again - I'm just waiting for Wyse to make a comeback. And seeing as how VMWare is now owned by Microsoft, one might construe a backdoor attempt to dominate the Unix desktop as well.
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LOL what??
VMWare owned by microsoft?? VMWare is owned by EMC! MS has their own virtualization plans.
I actually like the idea of virtual desktops for certain things...certain apps we use terminal services for and have terrible compatibility issues with it so we had to do alot of hacking on the app to get it working properly...having 10 XP machines on one server with the ability to provision a machine in 5 minutes can be a very good alternative to running 10 users on a single terminal server...not to mention the ability to vmotion and instantly bring up machines on a different server incase of a hardware failure.
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