VMworld from a far Day 2
Yesterday was day 2 of VMworld and there wasn't really any new announcements in the keynote. It mainly focused on going deeper into the technical details of the announcements of day 1. Here are links to some of the live blogs.
Usually the day 2 keynote has a lot of information on the EUC arm of VMware. This was not the case in 2013. Most of the keynote focused on the technical aspects of IT-as-a-Service and the software defined data center. VMware is going all in with the software defined data center I think the key to this is the Software defined Networking in the NSX product. It seems to me like this is the "secret sauce" that will make the 'Hybrid Cloud" more attainable to the greatest number of people.
From the EUC side of things some of the announcements I found interesting were the further collaboration of Lakeside Software and Login VSI. The solution they have come up with seems to compete with the assessment and monitoring suite from Liquidware labs, but you have to deal with 2 different vendors. I hope to be able to test the solution in a lab and post the comparisons here.
Speaking of Liquidware labs they announced FlexDisk and Flex-IO this week. I am looking forward to trying out the FlexDisk. hopefully the mounting process will be faster than the VHD mounting process for FlexApp and portability. You might not think that 2-5 seconds is a long time but when staring at that Profile Unity splash screen it is seems like forever.
Finally the tech preview of Project Orcha brings us a step closer to the promise of AppBlast that was promised 2 VMworlds ago. The workflow of being able to click a button on a file in Horizon Workspace and have it open in your virtual desktop is a nice feature that uses from what I understand no new Tech.