Acronis and VMTurbo teamed on a joint package to monitor and back up vSphere virtual environments. The offering combines Acronis vmProtect 6, which provides the backup tools, with VMTurbo Community Edition, which provides the monitoring software.

Other announcements: Dell committed to based on VMware infrastructure. Samsung for the VMware hypervisor in its future phones, which should help foster enterprise use of VDI on the phones.

While server-side virtualization is where VMware makes much of its revenue, a surprising number of products were built around the company's newly released View 5 VDI desktop virtualization software as well.

Thin-client equipment provider Wyse announced that its products would be supporting View 5. This means that Wyse clients will be able to take advantage of the improved bandwidth usage and personalization that View 5 offers. Wyse products supporting View 5 include the P20 zero client, Microsoft Windows Embedded thin clients, SUSE Linux-based thin clients, ThinOS machines and Wyse PocketCloud for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android smartphones and tablet devices.

VoIP (Voice-over-IP) software provider Mitel integrated its own Unified Communicator Advanced computer phone software with View 5, allowing users to deploy network telephony from within View. Previous versions of View were too sluggish for VoIP calls, Mitel noted.