Network Velocity

VMware View with PCoIP – Is this the cloud?

VMware View is a product that provides desktop performance levels to remote desktop clients. VMware View with PCoIP allows companies to deploy inexpensive, power efficient and virtually unbreakable PC's called thin clients to users while retaining a full dekstop experience with multi monitor setup, streaming video and fast video refresh. Company data can be securely locked away in a remote datacenter without users ever noticing a difference in their day to day computer usage. In the video ...

Running Windows on a Mac?

We recently decided to install Apple BootCamp on a Mac to determine the best "Windows" solution for Mac users. BootCamp is a utilty included in the Mac OS that allows users to install Windows as a secondary OS on a Macintosh computer. Running Windows on a Mac is not new. One of the available alternatives for running Windows on a Mac is VMware Fusion. With VMware Fusion, Windows is not installed directly on the Macintosh but rather in a Virtual Machine. Simply put, a Virtual Machine means that...

VMWare releases ESXi – for FREE

On July 28th VMWare announced that the VMware ESXi Virtualization product will be available for download at no cost. This is significant news!  VMWare aims to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization. Briefly, Virtualization software enables multiple Servers to be installed on a single piece of hardware.  There is no longer a one-to-one relationship of Server Operating System to Server Hardware.  If planned properly, a Single Physical Server can replace or grow in...