VMware on Tuesday released VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization and management of virtual desktops in one product. This technology helps IT organizations reduce storage cost, improve user experience and enables IT to rapidly provision and update thousands of desktop from a single image.
This is a major advance in virtual desktop computing. With VMware View 3, IT organizations can “decouple” a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data that is securely accessible from almost any device, at any time. By hosting these virtual desktop images in the datacenter using VMware View 3 IT personnel can provision and manage thousands of virtual desktops simply, securely, and with substantially lower operating costs.
In addition to providing desktop virtualization, VMware View 3 includes View Composer, a new product that creates virtual desktops from a master image; VMware ThinApp, which simplifies application packaging and deployment to a virtual desktop environment; and Offline Desktop, which provides the ability to move virtual desktops between the data center and a local laptop or desktop. The product also includes Unified Access, which provides desktop administrators a single management platform for virtual desktops and applications.
“With the launch of VMware View 3, VMware is expanding beyond its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure vision by combining its strength with both client-side and server-side desktop virtualization and continuing to solve customer problems with technologies that aim to improve desktop management and application delivery while providing an familiar PC-like user experience,” said Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “VMware View Composer, one of the new products released with VMware View 3, can further decrease the total cost of ownership of a virtual desktop solution by significantly reducing storage requirements and operational costs through its image management and linked cloning technology.”
VMware View 3 comes in an Enterprise Edition and a Premier Edition. The Enterprise Edition includes VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Edition, VMware View Manager 3 and Unified Access, and it costs US$150 per concurrent user for a perpetual user license. The Premier Edition includes those products but adds VMware View Manager 3, VMware ThinApp, VMware View Composer and Offline Desktop. It costs $250 per concurrent user for a perpetual license.
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This post was written by Kevin Normandeau on December 3, 2008
