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New And Refreshed VMware View Apps For iPad, Android And Cius Tablets

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The new VMware View Client for iPad, making it easier and faster than ever to connect to one’s View desktop, is out and offers some useful new features – including a new presentation mode supporting external displays and Apple AirPlay.

With support for VMware View 5, you can get better performance with reduced bandwidth options as well as more resilient connections to your desktop than previous versions. Get it here.

With added support for background multitasking, you can jump from your Windows desktop to another iPad app and then right back into the Windows desktop to where you left off. VMware View Client for iPad 1.2 also works well with iOS 5 and takes advantage of Apple AirPlay and an available AppleTV to use your big screen TV as a display for your View desktop.

You can now also use an external monitor or AirPlay in iOS 5; the iPad display will turn into a trackpad / keyboard while the external screen shows your View desktop.

The latest VMware View client is now available in English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. When working multi-byte Asian languages, the new local input mode enables you to type in full lines of complete multi-byte words and then send them to your View desktop.

VMware also released production Android clients for Android tablets and the Cisco Cius.

The VMware View Client for Android Tablets is the first Android client to support the PCoIP display protocol for best performance with VMware View 4.6 and View 5 users.

The new VMware View Client for Android Tablets is available in Android Market and the VMware View Client for Cius will soon be available in Cisco’s AppHQ.

VMware Launches ‘VMware Ready’ Desktop Solutions Program

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VMware earlier this week announced the expansion of its VMware Ready Program for partners providing desktop virtualization solutions based on VMware View.

The new VMware Ready Desktop Solutions Program provides customers validated desktop virtualization solution architectures that meet VMware’s functional and scalability requirements and are delivered by qualified VMware solution providers.

As part of the VMware Ready Desktop Solutions Program, VMware and its partners validate the complete solution stack, including hardware solutions for compute, storage and network resources, and identify qualified delivery partners who can deploy and support an end-to-end desktop virtualization solution.

VMware plans to expand the VMware Ready Desktop Solutions Program to include solutions from qualified partners with proven expertise in additional targeted vertical markets including education and healthcare.

Ericom Debuts Chromebook-Ready, Pure HTML5 Client For VMware View

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Ericom Software today announced general availability of Ericom AccessNow for VMware View, bringing an almost three-month beta to an end.

Ericom AccessNow for VMware View is a patent-pending HTML5 client that provides web-based access to VMware View virtual desktops.

It’s the first VDI solution to run wholly within any HTML5-compatible Web browser, and works on Chromebooks and natively with Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame plug-in), Firefox, Opera and other browsers with HTML5 and WebSocket support. The solution does not require Java, Flash, Silverlight or any other underlying technology.

Ericom also recently announced AccessNow, the first product to provide access to Windows applications and desktops running on Windows Terminal Services / RDS / VDI platforms directly from Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame plug-in), Firefox, Opera and other browsers with HTML5 and WebSocket support, without any plug-ins required.

VMware Launches An Official Publishing Entity With A Little Help From Pearson

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Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware have announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity.

The newly formed press will provide a suite of virtualization technology and certification products in multiple languages and formats, and will focus on three types of content:

– Technical books, ebooks and videos that concentrate on specific applications of virtualization.
– Decision Maker books, ebooks and videos that focus on the business aspects of virtualization.
– Official certification materials that support VMware’s complete certification program.

The majority of the new products will target VMware technology, primarily VMware vSphere, VMware View, VMware vCenter and VMware vCloud, which comprise the basic platform for all of VMware’s products and services.

Working in conjunction with VMware, Pearson plans to leverage the user group community programs and social channels to further engage the VMware community and offer exclusive promotions and access to the certification and technology products endorsed by VMware.

RingCube Announces General Availability Of vDesk v4.0

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RingCube Technologies, provider of personalization solutions for virtual desktops, today announced the general availability of vDesk v 4.0, a new enterprise desktop virtualization solution that expands an organization’s VDI user base, enables faster and more efficient VDI rollouts, reduces VDI infrastructure costs, and increases VDI’s return on investment.

RingCube will publicly unveil vDesk v4.0 at the Citrix Synergy 2011 event in San Francisco next week.

RingCube’s vDesk is a complementary offering to VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop that offers personalized user desktops without adding any additional management overhead. It also supports virtualizing the entire desktop, including department-level and user-installed applications.

By broadening the VDI rollout to a larger percentage of employees, organizations lower the overall cost of their VDI projects and improve user productivity, which results in a higher return on investment. With vDesk v4.0, organizations can now realize the promised productivity and cost-saving benefits from their VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop investments.

vDesk for VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop is generally available today. Pricing starts at $95 per user.

VMware, Liquidware Labs Team Up To Deliver ‘Stateless Desktops’

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Liquidware Labs has announced a joint solution with VMware View that allows organizations to deliver stateless VMware View sessions with a best practices disaster recovery design. Liquidware Labs’ ProfileUnity is at the heart of the solution.

When deployed, ProfileUnity and stateless VMware View desktops also serve as a full desktop disaster recovery solution.

For a limited time, Liquidware Labs is offering promotional pricing to any past or present VMware View customers seeking user space virtualization, administrator agility, and disaster preparation. Customers can qualify for volume discounts off list pricing of $24 – contact [email protected] for details on the promotion.