Hello all,

August is time for holidays for me... so no new post about technology and news and virtualization, In September I'll be online with new post and I hope that these will be usefull for you.

Thank you and good holiday for who do it.....

Alessandro Caloni

From: virtualization.info

 

 

 

With this release VMware starts a transformation process, morphing its identity of hardware virtualization vendor in something new.
Last month VMware unveiled how its vision contemplates cloud computing but to go there the company must be able to offer an unprecedented level of flexibility and automation.

 

 

With this release VMware further exacerbates the competition with Microsoft and Citrix.

 

 

ThinApp 4.0 (build 2200) is the next major release of the former Thinstall Application Virtualization Suite 3.2, released in September 2007, which already included a nice set of capabilities:

 

 

·         Zero-runtime execution (no agent installation required)

 

 

·         User Mode execution (no need of administrative privileges)

 

 

·         Block-by-block application streaming (served by SMB shares or iSCSI targets)

 

 

·         Execution from USB key with portable profiles/user settings

 

 

·         64bit OS support

 

 

·         MSI packages support

 

 

·         Active Directory integration

 

 

Additionally, this new build introduces a couple of new features:

 

 

·         Application Sync
This feature enables you to deploy application updates. Application Sync automatically checks for and installs updates to your packaged applications. Updates might include changes such as a new version, service pack updates, or configuration changes in the package.ini file

 

 

·         Application Link
This feature connects deployed applications. For example, you can establish a relationship between a deployed instance of Microsoft Office 2003 and a new Microsoft Office plug-in. Application Link enables you to establish a link between applications without having to encapsulate them into the same executable package

 

 

ThinApp is offered in bundle with VMware Workstation under the name of ThinApp Suite.
The reason behind this choice is to simplify the creation of the virtual packages: the user is required to save a snapshot of a clean OS before installing the application that he wants to virtualize. After that ThinApp can analyze the changes in the environment and generate a proper virtual EXE or MSI.
The whole process is much smoother and safer in a VMware Workstation guest OS where the virtual machine snapshot capabilities can be used to keep the environment unmodified.

 

 

 

 

 

This lets suppose that future versions of the product may further integrate with Workstation to streamline the virtual packages production.

 

 

VMware only targets enterprises for this product, offering a starting package for 50 concurrent clients at $6,050 (including a 12x5 Gold Support yearly subscription).
Any additional client starts at $47.19 (including a 12x5 Gold Support yearly subscription).

 

 

Download a trial here.

 

 

 

 

 

The next generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology for Windows Server 2008 is here. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. You can download the Hyper-V role update here.

 

Hi Mac OS X users, Microsoft has finally released the Remote Desktop Client  for Mac OS X (or Terminal Services Client how do you prefer).

 

The new version of the RDP client permit to connect from a machine with Operative System Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Tiger) or higher to a machine with Operative System Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008; the new functionality of Msc OS client are aligned with the most recent version on Windows platform (the last version is RDP 6.1 that is included in Windows Vista SP 1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008).

 

You can download the new version of Remote Desktop Client in english version and other languages versions, while you can find in this page the list of new functionality included in this release.

 

21th February Microsoft has announced a big change in interoperability based of new criteria, including information’s portability, extended support for the standard of the market, opening to API and protocols for the major Microsoft’s products.

 

Yesterday Microsoft has announced release of 5.000 pages of additional documentations about these products, including binary documentation of Office, Open XML format and ODF.

 

You can find these documents on MSDN site, new documentation updated.