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re: Are You vConfused?

Victor David — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:15:37 GMT

Until the time of Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2008R2, VMWare has a slight advantage over Microsoft on the virtualization field. However with Hyper-V on Server 2012 there's now a clear advantage for Microsoft.

re: Are You vConfused?

Virtual Commodity — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:01:52 GMT

I have met with many senior people at VMware and, after many inquiries on this subject, was unable to find clarity and a definitive statement of direction, channel strategy, etc.. They need to stop acting (arrogantly) like a hot start-up, recognize that they are under severe market/price pressure from the likes of Microsoft, and start recognizing and respecting customer and channel partner interests.

re: Are You vConfused?

formerVM customer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:43:26 GMT

I used to use VMware until I had a problem with it and could not get any support whatsoever from the company. I was willing to pay for ugrades but after numerous calls and emails went unanswered I deleted their software and switched to a competitors.

re: Are You vConfused?

steve — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:17:34 GMT

i know im a bit late on this post, but here goes anyway.

CONFUSED? understatement. So what are we to expect with this new announcement? Did we just waste money upgrading to Vsphere5? Did we just buy the wrong hardware to leverage our platforms across multiple providers? Is our new VMWARE agreement going to be able to take advantage of this new offering, even though we dont know what it is, dont know if we need it but want it, dont know if we want it or need it, or simply just dont need or want it?

I think the most important point to take away from this new announcement is that we made a very sound decision based on very solid grounds, even though our providers heads are in the clouds.

re: VMware Zigs, then Zags

[- Alex -] — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:35:51 GMT

Amy Barzdukas nice article, Microsoft do seem to be doing extremely well in the cloud and have many good client facing services that do give it that much needed positive attention.

The Cloud at this time is extremely expensive and for enterprise customers and those also in the research world, the cloud is unable to offer that level of flexibility yet.

Marcos Nogueira - Not too sure where your comment on VMware "It doesn't bring nothing new to the corporate side", VMware is always pushing the boundaries, some of which Microsoft is still lagging behind.

The problem here is Microsoft is ahead in the cloud, VMware have much to offer and in some cases more than what Microsoft can but whether VMware can sell that vision is another thing. Microsoft are ahead and have a nice profile to go alone with it with as Amy mentions Xbox Live, Outlook/Hotmail.

One thing is for certain is that enterprise customers will still continue to prefer VMware over Microsoft at a non cloud level but only the future will tell how these big companies are able to influence and move customers from this platform to the cloud.

re: VMware Zigs, then Zags

Marcos Nogueira — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:08:31 GMT

I still don't understand why company still pay huge amount of money for VMware! It doesn't bring nothing new to the corporate side, it doesn't integrate with nothing!

Congrats for the post!

re: Dear Windows Server 2003 – It’s Not Me, It’s You

Chijioke — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:16:26 GMT

I just love this post ;)

re: Microsoft VDI vs. VMware View: Freedom of Choice

Christa Anderson — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:29:07 GMT

Hi, Justin,

Can you clarify how you see VMware supporting session-based VDI? In their own datasheet, they disparage this model as "a shared slice of a Windows server" with some FUD about how that model is vulnerable to crashes. See www.vmware.com/.../VMware-View-MicrosoftRDS-Datasheet.pdf

#3 in your list doesn't sound like VMware's offering, but VMWare hosting Microsoft's offering.

Best,

Christa

re: Microsoft VDI vs. VMware View: Freedom of Choice

Justin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:46:37 GMT

Just as an FYI, VMware View has these same three kinds of provisioning available...

Automated Pools, such that one master image VM can be cloned into multiples and give several people their own personal VM on the fly.

Manual Pools, such that each person can be given a customized VM desktop.

Terminal Service Pools, such that many people can connect to the same VM via MS Terminal Services.

re: Announcing Forefront Unified Access Gateway Service Pack 3

ilantz — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:03:31 GMT

Adam, now that TMG is a "walking dead" , what will be the future of UAG ? are you guys working on a new TMG/UAG solution ??