Not a Mirage: VMware Horizon View updates absent from VMworld 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Colin Steele and Alyssa Wood.
The theme of this year’s VMworld conference was "defy convention" and VMware did just that by not making a single end user computing roadmap statement during its keynote. The second day keynote is usually reserved for updates to the end user computing (EUC) suite of products that now comprise the Horizon Suite: View, Mirage, and Workspace. Last year, Horizon Mobile and SocialCast played a large role.
VMware Inc. had promised to dial back its forward-looking EUC announcements, but the user community here was surprised by the complete lack of updates. Many VMworld 2013 attendees were looking forward to hearing about what’s new or upcoming in the Horizon Suite, said Gunnar Berger, an analyst at Gartner, Inc., a research firm based in Stamford, Conn…
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