VMware is a great place to work. Smart people, everyone’s on the go, lots of perks, lots of fun blah, blah, blah. However, the downside is it seems everyone is always sick. I work remotely from my home office and travel back and forth from Palo Alto. Everyday several times a day I see messages with Subject lines: Going
home not feeling good. Going home STILL not feeling good. WFH Today - open the message - sick!
My favorite's are the ones sent BEFORE they have come in and contaminated the office. At first, I thought these email messages were just standing out. That
was until after my first few trips . People walking around coughing, sneezing, red noses everywhere tissue rags in pockets, book bags, meeting tables, purses, over flowing trash cans. Don't get me wrong, I am the furthest thing from a germ-a-fobe. I felt like I was suck in the middle of a mine field and anything I touched was a flirtation with a weeks worth of misery. Someone tell these people to go home! I have had Bronchitis and the Flu since Friday. Proudly, I picked it up
the week before in Palo Alto. Two weeks before earlier, I had a cold, I had pick up out there as well. With the technology we have today, there is NO reason anyone needs to be in an office if they are even remotely contagious.
VDI can help with this, by remotely accessing your Virtual Desktop securely, you have access to all your stuff and your infestations stay at home. On to the good stuff, March 26th! ACE Beta 3 has gone live! If you have not already registered and want to start kicking the tires, you can register here. It’s really coming together. I have only been glancing at it, as I am still a little cross eyed but, it looks good. A new toolbar button for creating Pocket ACE packages. I also noticed you can now also associate managed ACE's to a new server now as well as a nice status notification when one is trying to contact the management server all really good
stuff and more to come before GA!