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Eric Sloof created three LinkedIn Groups and would like to invite you to join them. If you don’t know what a LinkedIn group is, here is a short explanation : Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. The VMware LinkedIn Groups offers extra features stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond.

Today I attended the VMware View Train The Trainer, hosted by Andy Cary. I must say, this new bundle of products is impressive. VMware View will be publicly available starting tomorrow. VMware is launching its newly-announced end-to-end enterprise desktop solution, VMware View which includes VMware VDI, ThinApp, and View Composer on December 2, 2008. Earlier at the VMworld in Las Vegas VMware announced new technologies to be introduced in 2009 – VMware View Composer, VMware Offline Desktop and Client Virtualization to build upon our leadership in virtual desktop infrastructure(VDI). Each technology provides additional functionality to make the universal client a reality – an end-to-end desktop solution that is easy-to-manage and cost effective, with the best end user experience, the strongest security, and the most efficient way to manage all of your desktops and applications.

This picture is (C) Viktor van den Berg.

Mike Laverick launched a completely new design of his well known RTFM education website. It looks great, although his "Other VMware Bloggers" section is a bit outdated; you better visit VMware-Land's LaunchPad instead.

Purple screen of death can occur on the Nintendo DS Lite when removing a DS Card or a GBA Game pack. :-)

When you have registered for the VCDX program and have completed the first survey, you should receive an email with an invitation for the second survey. In this second survey you can select a place where you would like to take the Enterprise Admin Exam. My closest place is London or Munich. :-( Because of the great number of VMware techies who want to take this exam the waiting list is long, very long. In some cases nearly five months. VMware decided to make the Enterprise Admin exam available at Pearson VUE. This way more people can take the exam in their homeland. So we just have to be patient, in the meantime take a look at Jason’s study guide.

Running ESX.Next under Workstation 6.5.1 is supported. A few weeks ago I filled a support request, because I couldn’t start a virtual machine on ESX.Next while ESX.Next was hosted on Workstation 6.5.0. ESX.Next kept crashing at 95% during the VM Power On.  An anonymous source just brought me up-to-date and whispered the following:

The WS 6.5 bug you noted earlier has been fixed. You will be able to run nested VMs under ESX.Next under WS 6.5.1, subject to the usual caveats (hardware virtualization has to be supported on your host for running the outer guest, and the inner guest is restricted to 32-bits).

What's New:

With this release of VMware Workstation, the following new features and support have been added:

Japanese localization — A localized version of Workstation is now available in Japanese for Windows hosts.

Smart card support for Linux guests — Smart cards are now experimentally supported with Linux guests.

Unity mode on Linux guests — Although support for Unity mode on Linux guests is still experimental, repainting of application windows is much improved.

3-D graphics — Additional improvements have been made to improve 3-D performance on Windows XP guests.

This morning I started my browser to check my Gmail inbox but something was different. I was staring at a beautiful mountain. :-) Annie Chen, Gmail engineer reports:

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

My personal favourite is the terminal theme.

Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager, its benefits, and its core technology concepts. Part 1 of 3.

Plans for the second Annual VMware Partner Exchange are underway. Next year's event will be hosted on April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida. VMware is developing this world class partner event to help you accelerate your virtualization business. And with their growing commitment to the partner eco-system, they are now joining all their partners to include the VIP community as well as their Technology Alliance Partner under one roof! You can expect the same outstanding commitment to providing you with the content and training you need to grow your business.

Attend the conference to

• Network with your Peers and Connect with VMware executives and experts
• Gain Insight to VMware roadmap and new sales & marketing tools
• Increase your training to sell more profitably

Information technology (IT) media company TechTarget announced the acquisition of The Brian Madden Company, the leading independent, website and conference to address the needs of IT decision makers on the topics of desktop virtualization, terminal services, and application virtualization.

As an addition to TechTarget’s portfolio of market-specific media, The Brian Madden Company brings the largest community of IT professionals specializing in application delivery and desktop virtualization. This includes hundreds of thousands of visits to BrianMadden.com, and attendees to BriForum, an annual event held in Chicago and the only independent conference covering the desktop virtualization space.

http://www.techtarget.com/html/pr/pr-11192008.htm
http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/11/19/techtarget-acquires-the-brian-madden-company.aspx