“VMware just released a new iPad app, named ‘VMware View.’ The new View lets iPad owners use virtual desktops (it lets you use virtual Windows instances that are stored on VMware’s servers elsewhere in your company). With this offering VMware joins Citrix, which has a similar system and iPad app,” Robert Scoble blogs via Scobleizer.
“In this first look I talk with executives Chris Young, VP and GM of End User Computing, and Steve Herrod, CTO / SVP of R&D,” Scoble writes. “But what’s more interesting is how strongly they say the iPad is being deployed into enterprises. We talk about what they are learning about deployments of iPads.”
Read more and watch the video in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Genius lobotomized.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]
nothing new
its called “VNC” and has been free for years
there are free “VNC” clients for iPhone and iPad
sick of companies doing NO new research and development
There’s more to the Citrix client than just that it does VNC. It may also implement local (floppy, USB stick, HD) storage, local printing, and maybe other functionality that you’d expect to remain local in a thin client situation.
Floppy? Really? Can you even buy those any more?
Whoops, I enclosed the word “floppy” in angle bracket html tags like so: <joke> floppy </joke>, but these got lost. This time I used ampersand escape sequences:)
The MDN summary doesn’t make it clear that this is NOT a virtual machine, just a graphic terminal emulator, called a thin client in the X-Window world. The display (“server”) sits on the client’s screen side, while the actual computer session is on a Windows (“compute server”), which is able to transparently provide simultaneous logins into their own Windows environment.
This is a natural in the unix/linux world, where there is a loose coupling between the (X-Window) display server and the compute server, in that they may or may not be on the same machine.
On the bright side, this will lead to more widespread adaption of iPad, particularly in Enterprise. And where iPad leads, Mac follows. 😉
I can see it now: iPads will eventually run Windows better than Windows-based tablets..
Hey, the only way I would get a computer running Windows is if it were a Mac running Boot Camp. 😉
I don’t understand the attraction…
Neither do I, but as a grudging necessity, I get it.
🙂
I feel dirty just thinking about it.
Thanks, but no thanks. 🙂
Dons Haz Mat suit.
No wants Mat suit. Dons haz cheezburgerz?
I get my work desktop by logging into a remote desktop. I currently use CoRD on my desktop. Is this similar? How do things work with the touch screen if windows isn’t really set up for that?
As sickening as this may seem (hehe), I was on TWIT chat last night with a person generally saying that iPad isn’t suitable for anything but consumer multimedia, among other things which I appropriately rebutted. (Don’t worry I put him in his place i.e. mentioning how tons of Fortune 500 companies are implementing iPad & etc). Having these kind of tools at a companies disposal will only help iPad get into the business market and shut these naysayers up properly with less needed intervention on my part.
These are the same people that eventually get really excited about a rival tablet with an SD slot that might work someday.
LOL exactly Chrissy!
These are the same people that eventually get really excited about learning that the earth is actually round and not square.
This is cool. it’s actually different with vnc. while VNC is merely a remote access tool, vmware is actually a virtualization. Because it’s a virtual machine, you can actually access the ‘machine’ booting and access it’s ‘BIOS’. imagine the power..
Why ruin a perfectly good iPad? 😉
why?
Well, if the enterprise wants to settle for MAC’s I-Pad then this might be the way to go. Too bad these I-Pad toys boot into MAC’s underpowered tablet OS. To do any real work you have to add Windows.
The enterprise would be better off going with Windows tablets for native support of Microsoft’s great software. Asking staff to learn MAC’s tablet OS after years of enjoying Windows is a stretch. As much as MAC copies everything Microsoft, I-Pad would carry a steep learning curve.
I agree. Why should millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of supposedly intelligent people bother to use this in their underpowered machines?
Bunch of silly-billies.
I agree…
I agree. Why should millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of supposedly intelligent people choose to use this in their underpowered machines? Don’t they know as much as we do?
Bunch of silly-billies.
Grrr….am in the Caribbean with a weak Internet signal…sorry for the double post. Can’t tell when things go through.
Must be tough.
I sit here in 30 degree weather just weeping for you….
I’ll think of your desperate plight as the miserable northwest rain beats on my roof.
In related news, emergency rooms around the country are reporting a dramatic spike in cases of uncontrolled vomiting.
Um, why?
Um, because of the mere thought of seeing Winblows on an iPad churns stomachs.
Get it?
You actually /can/ run windows (3.1 or 95) on the ipad
step1: install idos (yes it’s still in itunes, but slightly different)
step2 install phone disk (this uses apples official api s and does not require jail breaking
step3 copy your windows stuff to the idos documents directory
step4 duh winning!!!! 😀
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