No ACE up VMWare's sleeve Try as VMware might to push its VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) initiative through announcements such as its ACE virtual machine management platform, the company isn't impressing Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall Kennedy. "The truth is that IT shops aren't buying into the whole 'VM as a desktop replacement' story," Kennedy writes. "These customers were burned once already by the s No ACE up VMWare’s sleeve Try as VMware might to push its VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) initiative through announcements such as its ACE virtual machine management platform, the company isn’t impressing Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall Kennedy. “The truth is that IT shops aren’t buying into the whole ‘VM as a desktop replacement’ story,” Kennedy writes. “These customers were burned once already by the server-based computing fiasco, so they’re understandably skittish about any solution that purports to replace the desktop with ‘something better.'”Zend does open source right: Zend Core, an enhanced, open-source version of PHP, has officially hit the big two-dot-oh, reports Matt Asay in the Open Sources blog. In addition to the technology, Asay applauds the Zend business model that stays true to open source: “It’s all about making the code open and free, and charging for the service around that code. If you’re a developer, you probably don’t want the service. If you’re an enterprise with uptime requirements, you can’t live without it. Zend is serving both.”Saved by the Tornado: If you’re like Oliver Rist and in need of performing a quick desktop-data backup, he recommends checking out The Tornado. “Think of a cable coil device with a USB 2.0 connector at either end. Hook it up between two Windows XP machines and it pops up its own file transfer tool. Each window sees the disk tree of both machines. Find what you want on one and then drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste to the other machine.” Pretty slick. Technology Industry