VMware to Bring Traditional Windows Apps and Desktops to Chromebooks

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management, Chrome

Cloud applications allow flexibility, scalability and security and enable a work-anywhere environment, but many of our customers still use traditional desktop applications. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) helps bridge the gap between the cloud and a traditional desktop by allowing you to run your traditional software in the cloud and have applications appear on your Chromebook similarly to how they run today. An example might be your Windows based accounting application.

Chromebooks have continued to help more and more customers over the last year. According to NPD, Chromebooks made up 21% of U.S. commercial laptop sales in 2013. Customers prefer the low total cost of ownership, the central web-based management console and the fact that they dont need any additional security or anti-virus software. These are reasons why businesses large and small are adopting Chromebooks.

Today, customers can fully embrace the cloud with Chromebooks using VMware Horizon™ DaaS®. VMware and Google are working together to make the migration of legacy applications even easier, by using the HTML5/Blast experience from Chromebooks. This means you can work with Chromebooks and connect to a Windows experience running VMWare™ Horizon View.

As the countdown to Windows XP end of life continues, deploying Chromebooks and taking advantage of a DaaS environment ensures that security vulnerabilities, application compatibility and migration budgets will be a thing of the past.

VMware Horizon DaaS enables customers to centralize other desktop environments and manage these as a cloud service. Initially available to customers as an on-premise service or by VMWare vCloud Service Provider Partners (VSPPs) offering DaaS in the cloud or within hybrid deployments. Users will be able to access their Windows applications, data and desktops using VMware’s Blast HTML5 technology to their Chromebook.

This technology is available now by bringing together VMware Horizon View 5.3 and Chromebooks as an on-premise service and will be available soon as an application that can be installed from the Chrome Web Store. To find out more follow this link.

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VMware Player 6.0.4 For Windows Latest Updated Version (Free):

Nov 02, 2014- Run virtual machines created by VMware Terminal, GSX Server or ESX Server. 

Features: 

• Run any virtual machine. Run virtual machines created by VMware (Latest) workplace, GSX Server or ESX Server. VMware Player also supports Microsoft virtual machine formats and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk. 
• PC Host Access Devices. Use host CD / DVD, network cards, and plug-and-play USB devices. 
• Copy and paste. Copy text and files between the virtual machine and the host PC. 
• Drag and drop. Drag and drop files between a Windows host PC and a virtual machine for Windows. 
• Multiple network options. Virtual machines can share or obtain new IP addresses or be isolated from the network and host. 
• 32 and supporting host and guest operating system 64 bit. Run a wide variety of virtual machines containing 32 operating systems and 64-bit applications simultaneously on the same physical computer. Supported guest operating systems include select 64bit Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE, & FreeBSD distributions. 
• Adjustable Memory. Tune memory of the virtual machine for optimal performance. 
• Off configurable. Turn off or suspend the virtual machine to close VMware Player. 
• Integrated Google search. VMware Player includes Google search capabilities, fully integrated for opportunely searching the web without launching a browser.

Requirements:.

(All) Windows Version

Information:.

Developer: VMware

License / Price: Freeware

Size / OS: 94.3 MB / Windows

Published On:02 Nov 2014

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