10. July 2008 by Tony.

In case you haven’t heard Diane Green (co-founder/CEO) has been let go from VMware. This stroke of genius not only spurred numerous articles on the future and stability of VMware as a whole but also earned VMware the Motley Fools “Worser” stock of the day

Some other interesting reading: good ones:

EMC CEO’s ego has cost investors billions

Comment Whacks Greene when VMware needed her most

By Ashlee Vance • Tuesday 8 Jul 2008 17:39

By firing VMware chief Diane Greene, EMC’s top dog Joe Tucci has sent a message to investors that his personal likes and dislikes come before their broader interests. That’s not exactly what you want to see from an executive who has already done so very little for investors over the past five years. We’ve written more than any …

Greene washed out of VMWare as revs undershoot

MS veteran replaces co-founder

By Joe Fay • Tuesday 8 Jul 2008 14:36

VMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets. VMWare chairman Joe Tucci said in a statement that former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz would take the helm of the firm. Tucci also thanked Greene for her contributions and wished her “every success in the …

VMware’s Woes - Is Microsoft Virtualization to Blame?
Written by: Douglas Brown
Today, VMware announced it has fired (my words, not theirs) one of their founders and the current CEO, Diane Greene. This came as a huge shock to me and most of us in the virtualization industry. In the following article I will explain why I think VMware’s Board let Diane go an why VMware’s stock falling like a MythBusters project to determine the terminal velocity of a 21 billion dollar rock falling from the top of the Empire State Building, and why do I think this is mostly caused by Microsoft.
http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=8115

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1. July 2008 by admin.

Interesting dilemma…

I have high profile client that has a unique VDI implementation that we did last year. At the time Leostream was initially selected as the Broker of choice but during the Design phase it was decided that we needed no broker at all. Part of the specifcations was to have the Thin Client boot directly to a specific VDI instance with no portal (again a very unique environment)  So if you sit at seat 10 you get VDI instance 10, no matter what.

Eventually we modified the local devices to auto launch an RDP instance at startup to the specific VDI instance.

The Problem: Video sucks with RDP

At the time RDP was the only choice and we found a 3-5 second delay between audio/video (similar watching an old Godzilla movie)

The Solution: XenDEsktop

In our Solutions Center we setup both VDM 2.0 and Xendesktop for a bake off. Regardless of pools, and fetures the only requirement was to get video to wok better.

It DID.

Summary: if you need better video performance ICA still wins, hands down

See for yourself:

VDI with Citrix XenDesktop vs. VDI with VMWare VDM (you tube)

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1. July 2008 by admin.

“Virtualization Power Panel” to Present Top Virtualization Executives Live on SYS-CON.TV — VMware CTO Steve Herrod, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, and Allen Stewart, Group Manager of Windows Virtualization at Microsoft are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV ‘Virtualization Power Panel’ to be recorded on the eve of SYS-CON’s 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

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