Did someone say VMware’s View 4 was released?

Maybe it was just me, but one of the releases I anticipated most this year was VMware’s View 4 desktop virtualization solution. However, there wasn’t as much publicity around it as I anticipated. After all of the hype, I actually had to stumble upon the VMware Web site on the day of the release in order to know it was out … that’s the only way I knew about it.

Regardless, today I received notification that our partner licenses for the full version are available. Tomorrow, I’ll be in the lab setting up View 4 so we can see first hand exactly what PCoIP is going to do for our customers.

When it comes to desktop virtualization, one of the largest concerns we’ve heard thus far is the way remote users (remote office/branch office) were impacted with prior versions. Bandwidth was not plentiful, yielding poor performance. The best way around this concern was to deploy a local View server. For many SMBs this was, and is not, a cost effective solution. Now, with View 4 this might be a different story to tell.

To quote a good friend, I’m nerdy excited about this one!