Mike DiPetrillo's Blog
Yesterday, VMware announced that they were buying Trango. Trango makes
virtualization solutions for the mobile phone or other embedded devices. Now
why would VMware do this? Well, if you were at VMworld then you heard all
about VMware View. Basically it's the thought that once you put an app on top
of a virtualization layer then the layer actually stretches all the way down
to the end device so you don't have to worry about which app works with what.
This is really key when you start looking out at cloud.
Cloud is just the middle glue that gets the user to the data. In order for
that to work you really need a layer on every possible device that the user
could come from. VMware had most of the bases covered already since it's been
in the client vir... (more)