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  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall: Video of Aqua Connect's new ACAM feature

    Aqua Connect has a new lockdown feature called ACAM that can be used to prevent applications from launching or doing certain things, such as browsing to external web sites. Renee Mehrian takes us through a short tour.
    by Gabe Knuth , September 03, 2010 : 0 comments , 341 views

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  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall: video of Wyse R-class thin client running RemoteFX

    We've seen RemoteFX before, but Wyse was the only vendor here with the guts to show it off at VMworld!
    by Gabe Knuth on September 02, 2010 : 0 comments , 817 views
  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall: a video of Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 for iPad, iPhone, and Android

    We had a chance to get a guided tour of Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 for the iPad, iPhone, and Android from Daniel Barreto, Chief Software Architect for Wyse Technology.
    by Gabe Knuth on September 02, 2010 : 1 comments , 762 views
  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall: MokaFive demos their bare metal hypervisor

    Did you know that MokaFive is coming out with a bare-metal hypervisor later this year? In this video, MokaFive's CTO John Whaley gives a quick demo.
    by Brian Madden on September 02, 2010 : 1 comments , 1,099 views
  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall Tour: a video of Teradici's booth demos

    VMworld 2010 is taking place this week in San Francisco. Gabe and I are attending and spent some time walking around the expo hall talking to vendors about their desktop virtualization offerings. In this video, Brian talks to Teradici's Ziad Lammam...
    by Brian Madden on September 01, 2010 : 3 comments , 1,072 views
  • VMworld 2010 Expo Hall Tour: Virtual Computer

    In this quick video from the Expo Hall of VMworld 2010, Gabe Knuth stops by Virtual Computer's booth to see what's new. He talks to Doug Lane.
    by Brian Madden on September 01, 2010 : 2 comments , 726 views
  • VMworld 2010 Opening Keynote Live Blog

    I'm sitting in the opening keynote for VMworld 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The keynote starts at 9:00 local time. Updates to this post will be added in reverse-chronological order, so if you're just starting to read this now,...
    by Brian Madden on August 31, 2010 : 7 comments , 5,025 views
  • Brian and Gabe's "must see" desktop sessions at VMworld

    It's VMworld week, and with that comes the process of sorting out the stuff we care about from the stuff we don't. Brian covered this with regards to the vendors in his article last week, and today, I want to talk about the sessions that we're...
    by Gabe Knuth on August 30, 2010 : 5 comments , 2,676 views
  • VMworld 2010 preview: searching for desktop needles in the cloud haystack

    VMworld 2010 kicks off next week in San Francisco. Gabe and I will be there along with 14,000 of our closest friends. While many have said that VMworld's shear size creates a borderline overwhelming conference experience (in a good way), I've...
    by Brian Madden on August 27, 2010 : 5 comments , 2,589 views
  • Citrix's announces "XenVault," a secure corporate storage location on insecure non-corporate laptops

    Back at Citrix Synergy 2010 this past May, Citrix announced a client plug-in for encrypted data. (Remember that Citrix's client components are modular, so Citrix and third parties can write plug-in components to extend the capabilities of the client...
    by Brian Madden on August 26, 2010 : 4 comments , 3,527 views
  • VMware Project "Origami:" unifying the server, desktop, and SaaS app models?

    For years we've been talking about how IT is really just about the applications, and how today's business world is about Windows applications. Of course now that's changing. We're not moving to the web/cloud/SaaS overnight, but we're...
    by Brian Madden on August 25, 2010 : 18 comments , 3,601 views
  • How will Intel buying McAfee affect the desktop virtualization industry?

    By now you'd heard that Intel plans to buy McAfee ( press release ), which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary rolling into Intel's software group. There are plenty of other more qualified folks who've been blogging about the deal in general...
    by Brian Madden on August 20, 2010 : 21 comments , 4,144 views
  • Why Windows Embedded 7 (WES7) should be part of SA, and how to force the issue with Microsoft

    Last week there was a blog post and interesting discussion on the use cases for Windows Embedded Standard 7 thin clients (WES7). Outside of the usual "thin client vs. other options," a key issue is the fact that Microsoft wants you to pay for...
    by appdetective on August 17, 2010 : 11 comments , 2,486 views
  • My prediction for mass client hypervisor adoption is 2013. Here’s why.

    I've written quite a bit about client hypervisors over the past few years. But now that we're getting closer to Citrix's production release of XenClient, and now that VMware is backing away from the client hypervisor, I'll take this opportunity...
    by Brian Madden on August 17, 2010 : 30 comments , 4,805 views
  • "Advanced Format" 4k disk drives and performance: How will this impact your virtual disks?

    Tim Mangan talks about new hard drives on the market, with potential performance and breakage impacts. What it is and why you need to be aware!...
    by Tim Mangan on August 16, 2010 : 6 comments , 2,972 views
  • Does anyone plan on using Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES7) thin clients?

    Now that the upgrade to Windows XP Embedded has been released (as Windows Embedded Standard 7 ) a few months ago, is anyone really excited about or planning to use it? I know this is the latest extension to the age-old battle between "rich"...
    by Brian Madden on August 12, 2010 : 12 comments , 2,879 views
  • The most misunderstood virtual desktop definitions

    Since this entire website is about desktop virtualization, I want to focus this week's column on some key terms that are often misunderstood. Take a look at this short list and don't be surprised if you find yourself correcting your boss at the...
    by SearchVirtualDesktop: Tips on virtual desktops, tools and management on August 11, 2010
  • Take our "state of the industry" 2010/2011 desktop virtualization survey

    It's been about 18 months since we last did a comprehensive end-user survey around desktop virtualization, so we've decided to update and relaunch the survey for 2010/2011: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/343154/BrianMadden2010 The idea is that...
    by Brian Madden on August 09, 2010 : 3 comments , 1,863 views
  • What exactly is an "enterprise app store?" (No seriously... what is it?)

    There's a lot of talk about "enterprise app stores." I'm not sure what the exact definition of an enterprise app store is, but the analogy most used is something like "imagine Apple's iPhone App Store, except for corporate IT...
    by Brian Madden on August 05, 2010 : 25 comments , 3,756 views