VMware Unveils View 4

VMware has announced the availability of VMware View 4, which strives to enable rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model. VMware View 4 is a purpose-built desktop virtualization solution built on vSphere. VMware claims that View 4 is a complete desktop virtualization solution featuring a rich, flexible desktop user experience while delivering dramatic efficiency, security, performance, scalability and management improvements -- all while reducing desktop total cost of ownership by as much as 50 percent.

With VMware View 4, the vendor and its ecosystem of partners eliminate the barriers and enable broader, mainstream enterprise adoption of desktop virtualization. "At VMware, we're extremely proud of the impact we've had on the datacenter, transforming decades old computing models and accelerating the emergence of private and public cloud environments," said Paul Maritz, President and Chief Executive Officer, VMware. "With the introduction of VMware View 4, we see an equally compelling opportunity to leverage our knowledge and expertise in virtualization and forever change how desktop services are both delivered and consumed," he added.

"In addressing the main barriers to broad desktop virtualization adoption -- acquisition costs, user experience and scalability -- VMware, along with its broad ecosystem of partners is working to pave the way for enterprises to more easily transform their desktops into a managed service with significantly improved security, management, availability and compliance at a reduced total cost of ownership," said Mike Rose, Industry Analyst, IDC. "IDC expects that because of these and other advances, organizations will continue to increase the size of virtual desktop environments both in terms of users and use cases," he said.

VMware announced that with View 4 it hopes to establish a new desktop experience standard, capable of satisfying the broadest range of users -- from the basic task worker to the designer, with a rich, high-quality user environment across the widest range of devices and networks.