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SOURCE >>VMware: VMTN Blog: Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town.

It´s  only in US and Canada. Too bad.

Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town Today VMware is proud to unveil the VMware Express during its inaugural stop at the 2010 VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, NV.  This state of the art mobile datacenter, demo environment and briefing center has been built to bring VMware solutions directly to our customers across the USA and Canada during the 2010 Virtualization Tour. The VMware Express is sponsored by Cisco, EMC, Dell, MDS, NetApp, Xsigo, ChipPC, Amulet Hotkey and Teradici.

There are 5 demo stations covering both VMware desktop and server virtualization solutions. Customers will have the unique opportunity to get hands on and dig deep into solutions with VMware Experts. There are demos highlighting the following products and solutions:

VMware View

• Best User Experience – Highlighting the power of the PCoIP display protocol to deliver a rich user experience, perfectly adapted for the network connection and end-point device.
• Follow-Me Desktop – Enabling immediate access to desktops, applications and data while ensuring a consistent user experience across sessions and endpoint devices.
• Access Across Boundaries – Providing access to desktops, applications and data anytime, anywhere regardless of network availability.
• Windows 7 Migration – Reducing the costs and complexity associated with desktop and application migration.

VMware vSphere

• The industry’s most reliable platform for datacenter virtualization offering the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services.  Optimize IT services and deliver the highest levels of application service agreements with the lowest total cost per application workload by decoupling your business-critical applications from the underlying hardware for unprecedented flexibility and reliability.

vCenter Server

• Learn about this scalable and extensible platform that forms the foundation for virtualization management with the family of vCenter products including CapacityIQ, AppSpeed, Chargeback and many more focused on providing advanced operational controls.

Customers will not only benefit from being able to see and interact with multiple VMware products in one place but can also take advantage of the conference room where they can have deep dive conversations with VMware solution experts. Leaving the VMware Express, visitors will have an improved understanding of the VMware Desktop partner eco-system, VMware solutions, and how they are positioned to address today’s technical and business requirements.

The VMware Express is letting us reach customers like never before and is ready to roll to industry and partner events as well as customer sites bringing VMware solutions directly to the customer.  Don’t miss your opportunity to catch the VMware Express on the 2010 Virtualization Tour as it crosses the U.S. and Canada coming to a location near you.  Learn more and keep up to date by going to http://www.vmware.com/tour

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VMware Technical Sales Professional Program (VTSP) provides foundational technical knowledge for pre-sales individuals to help them successfully engage in a VMware sales cycle. VTSP is recommended before you obtain Technical Pre-Sales Competency Accreditations.  Source: VMware Partner University

Now I´m a VMware Technical Sales Professional 

Since today 2pm i passed the VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 (VCP4) exam.
Thanks to Simon Long and his blog. The online exams are very very helpful. Thanks

Find more information @ VMware

Source: VMware Education Services

The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for individuals who want to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase the potential for career advancement.

The high standards expected of a VCP means it’s one of the most sought after certifications in the industry. Become a VCP to:

• Demonstrate your VMware software technical expertise to your customers
• Increase customer confidence levels
• Display the VMware Certified Professional logo on your business card or website

The following are the paths to the VCP4 certification:

Anbei ein sehr interessanter Vergleich von VMware View und Citrix XenDesktop. Lesenswert!!

Im Vergleich: VMware View und Citrix XenDesktop: Fachartikel.

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Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM

Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 7 project. The Windows 7 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we have started to release Windows 7 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners. This means our next major milestone will be the availability of PCs loaded with Windows 7 and store shelves stocked with Windows 7 on October 22, 2009.

This is a milestone we could not have achieved without the broad participation across the PC Ecosystem we have talked so much about on this blog. Windows 7 is a product not just of Microsoft, but of a whole industry of partners of all kinds. Throughout the development of Windows 7 we’ve seen an incredible engagement from so many people that have contributed to making the Windows 7 engineering project one we, collectively, feel good about. The feedback and collaboration throughout the development of Windows 7 has been outstanding and valuable beyond measure. This work has created the kind of experience so many of you have talked about in this blog—the ability to use a broad range of PC hardware and peripherals with a great setup and out of box experience. On behalf of the Windows team and all of the successful installations and device connections, please let me extend an incredible “thank you” to all of our hardware partners who have done such excellent work.

Windows 7 has also been one of the most broadly and deeply tested releases of software we have ever had. Starting with a pre-beta in October of 2008 with a few thousand developers using Windows 7 at the earliest stages, through the Beta, and then the Release Candidate in May when we have had millions of people successfully running the product (and many on multiple PCs). As we have discussed in this forum, the ongoing depth usage of Windows 7 along with the breadth and variety of hardware and software configurations has provided (and will continue to provide) the key tools to make sure we continue to deliver ever-improving Operating System quality.

….more on http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx

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Lange hat es gedauert..

Official Google Blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of “beta” software as not being yet ready for prime time.

Ever since we launched the Google Apps suite for businesses two years ago, it’s had a service level agreement, 24/7 support, and has met or exceeded all the other standards of non-beta software. More than 1.75 million companies around the world run their business on Google Apps, including Google. We’ve come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn’t fit for large enterprises that aren’t keen to run their business on software that sounds like it’s still in the trial phase. So we’ve focused our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.

Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. “Beta” will be removed from the product logos today, but we’ll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there’s a small “beta” beneath the logo. Indeed, today we’re also announcing some other Google Apps features that we think will appeal to large enterprises: mail delegation, mail retention and ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability.

google, Apps, google apps, Gmal, calendar

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Timelines Shared at Computex: Steve Guggenheimer’s anniversary keynote address at leading OEM conference highlights partner opportunities with upcoming Microsoft innovations.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Timelines Shared at Computex

TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 3, 2009 — Today during a keynote address at Computex 2009 in Taipei, Microsoft’s OEM Division Corporate Vice President Steve Guggenheimer revealed that the company is confident with the progress made with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and that as a result, Microsoft will deliver Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code to partners in the second half of July. Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time.

Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Division Corporate Vice President.

“As we’ve said many times, quality is our primary goal,” Guggenheimer said. “We announce each milestone once we’re confident of where we are in the development cycle and that it is ready to be shared with customers and partners. We’ve received great feedback from our partners who are looking forward to offering Windows 7 to their customers in time for the holidays.”

In addition to this, Guggenheimer announced that Microsoft will make available an upgrade option, so partners can offer customers the ability to purchase a Windows Vista-based PC and install Windows 7 when it’s ready.

“Microsoft has been working closely with partners to help our mutual customers be able to enjoy the many benefits of Windows 7,” he said. “With that in mind, we’re excited to say that there will be a Windows upgrade program available. Consumers can buy that new PC, whether for a student heading off to college or just because they need a new one, and know they’ll get Windows 7 as part of the deal.”

The actual start date for the program will be announced when it is ready for consumers, and partners are ready to provide details to customers.

Today’s keynote address is Guggenheimer’s second at Computex. The last time he spoke at the show, he had just taken over the helm of OEM, the division that works with hardware manufacturers worldwide to integrate Microsoft technologies and bring PCs, laptops, mobile handsets and other devices to life.

Although the economic realities of the past year have created new challenges for customers, partners and the IT industry, Guggenheimer says the power of innovation, through both software and broad collaboration with partners, will continue to benefit consumers, the industry and the economy at large.

“What we’re doing with Windows will continue to improve people’s lives so that that technology enables them to communicate better, make tasks simpler and new things possible,” he says. “Our partners in the hardware space, our competitors in software — the entire industry is doing incredible things.”

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heise online – 14.04.09 – VMware-Update soll Ausbruch aus dem Gastsystem verhindern

VMware hat Sicherheits-Updates veröffentlicht, die eine kritische Lücke in seinen Produkten schließen soll, durch die ein Anwender eines Gastsystems das Wirtssystem unter seine Kontrolle bringen kann. Insbesondere in Bereichen, in denen unbedingt die Einflussnahme des Gasts auf den Host verhindert werden soll, etwa in Malware-Laboren und Serversystemen, stellt die Lücke eine nicht zu unterschätzende Bedrohung dar. Genaue Angaben macht der Hersteller zwar nicht, die Ursache des Problems liegt aber wohl in einem Fehler eines virtuellen Gerätetreibers im Zusammenhang mit der Display-Funktion und dem Framebuffer.

Betroffen sind:

• VMware Workstation <= 6.5.1
• VMware Player <= 2.5.1
• VMware ACE <= 2.5.1
• VMware Server 2.0
• VMware Server <= 1.0.8
• VMware Fusion <= 2.0.3
• VMware ESXi 3.5 ohne Patch ESXe350-200904201-O-SG
• VMware ESX 3.5 ohne Patch ESX350-200904201-SG
• VMware ESX 3.0.3 ohne Patch ESX303-200904403-SG
• VMware ESX 3.0.2 ohne Patch ESX-1008421

Ein Exploit zum Ausnutzen der Lücke ist offenbar bereits für Kunden der Sicherheitsfirma Immunity verfügbar – zumindest zeigt ein Video, wie der Cloudburst-Exploit unter Vista funktioniert.

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