VMware’s App Volumes Simplifies Management for VDI

November 22, 2016 Rebecca Fitzhugh Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

VMware’s App Volumes Simplifies Management for VDI

November 16, 2016 Rebecca Fitzhugh Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Application management can be a complicated task when it comes to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), but it doesn’t have to be. App Volumes is VMware’s product for virtual machine application layering that helps simplify the process. These layers are known as AppStacks, which are virtual disks that contain everything necessary to run the application. AppStacks are not run in isolation or containerized like ThinApp packages. Instead, the agent for App Volumes merges the AppStack contents with the virtual machines’ file system and Windows Registry. Users have no indication that this is happening; to the user it appears as though the applications are actually installed in the system.

VMworld 2016 and its Cloud Workload Implications

September 20, 2016 John Hales Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

VMware estimates that the tipping point between cloud (public and private together) and on-premises IT will occur in 2021. The estimated tipping point between public cloud and the combination of private cloud and on-premises IT is in 2030.

VMware’s vRealize and NSX: Better Together

September 15, 2016 Rebecca Fitzhugh Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

VMware vRealize Automation allows for unified cloud management by automating personalized infrastructure delivery. VMware NSX is a component of the software-defined data center (SDDC) that provides a network virtualization platform. NSX abstracts security and networking functionality and embeds it into the hypervisor rather than handling it in the hardware.

VMworld 2016: Top Announcements

September 13, 2016 Rebecca Fitzhugh Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Some saw this coming, others were surprised, but VMware did not announce any new vSphere, Horizon, vRealize, or NSX releases at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas last week. The general sessions focused more on the direction of the company rather than specific product lines.