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July 30, 2010
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July 29, 2010
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Excellent white paper by Benny Tritsch: "Things You Always Wanted to Know About Windows Profile Management"

Immidio's Benny Tritsch (we also know him as one of a handful of people who've presented at all eight BriForums!) has posted a white paper entitled "Things You Always Wanted to Know About Windows Profile Management" today on his blog...

by Gabe Knuth , July 30, 2010 : 5 comments , 1,001 views

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Think Thin : Multi-Core or Hyper-Threaded? Or Both?
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 30 July 2010
Gabe Knuth : Excellent white paper by Benny Tritsch: "Things You Always Wanted to Know About Windows Profile Management"
Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog : Remote Desktop Services Migration Guide is now available
Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 29 July 2010
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 28 July 2010
Ron Oglesby : Brian’s wrong… about VDI and Local Storage.
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 26 July 2010
Brian Madden : Why aren't VMware and RSA working together to create the ultimate secure virtual desktop environment?
The Citrix Blogs Feed : XenApp 6 Migration TechTalk and FAQ
Helge Klein : How to Modify Default Share Permissions and Other Tweaks
The Citrix Blogs Feed : DOS Nostaglia on 64-bit Windows
The Citrix Blogs Feed : Citrix Community Site for IT in Healthcare
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 23 July 2010
The Citrix Blogs Feed : Cache is King
Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist : Citrix not Microsoft EULA compliant with PVS!
Think Thin : Oracle VDI Webinar
VanBragt.Net SBC Centre & Virtualization Centre : News of 22 July 2010
Brian Madden : “Help me manage users and then the devices will take care of themselves.” What does VMware mean when they say this?

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Brian’s wrong… about VDI and Local Storage.

A couple of weeks ago Brian wrote an article titled “ F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local! ” It had about 40 comments and 3000 views in its first day, showing the emotion and interest in this topic. It really sparked a small war within...

by Ron Oglesby on July 27, 2010 : 31 comments , 3,241 views
Why aren't VMware and RSA working together to create the ultimate secure virtual desktop environment?

RSA and VMware both have legions of crazed fanatical customers, and as it happens both companies are owned by EMC. This was the topic of one of the side conversations I had at BriForum last month. We talked about how it's weird that the two companies...

by Brian Madden on July 26, 2010 : 7 comments , 2,260 views
“Help me manage users and then the devices will take care of themselves.” What does VMware mean when they say this?

“Help me manage users and then the devices will take care of themselves.” This is a quote from VMware's COO Tod Nielsen during the Q&A portion of the company's 2Q 2010 earnings call. (Thanks to Alessandro @virtualization.info for...

by Brian Madden on July 22, 2010 : 29 comments , 2,890 views
In 2010, desktop virtualization is still tactical. The Win7 opportunity has been missed.

I gave about 20 speeches about desktop virtualization in 2009, and one of the core tenants of those was that Windows 7 and desktop virtualization are sort of “codependent” on each other. I felt since most companies were still on Windows XP...

by Brian Madden on July 21, 2010 : 23 comments , 3,794 views
BriForum 2010 vendor DEMO Lab videos

Untitled Document We have 31 vendors exhibit in the DEMO Lab at BriForum 2010 in Chicago this year. Each of these vendors showed off their latest and greatest stuff, but unfortunately not everyone had a chance to visit every demo. So like last year ,...

by Brian Madden on July 20, 2010 : 2 comments , 2,089 views
Interview with Tim Mangan about his new book about App-V

Blogger , speaker, consultant, and friend of the site Tim Mangan just released a book (today!) about App-V. Tim's been in this space a long time (and is one of five people who have spoken at all eight BriForums), but this is his first book. I interviewed...

by Brian Madden on July 19, 2010 : 7 comments , 2,429 views
How the hidden "SLA bump" can kill your VDI project: You'd better know your desktop SLAs going in!

This week's conversation on BrianMadden.com about the whether you should use local or SAN-based storage for VDI has been one of the best conversations we've ever had on any topic. What's clear after reading the 50+ comments is that people...

by Brian Madden on July 16, 2010 : 5 comments , 2,856 views
F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local!

When discussing storage in the context of VDI, people often talk about things like SAN sizing and IOPS and linked clones and thin provisioning and disk image streaming and... the list goes on. But one of the most important aspects of storage design for...

by Brian Madden on July 14, 2010 : 69 comments , 8,107 views
Microsoft RemoteFX is now available via public beta. Here's our in-depth guide to how it works.

Yesterday Microsoft made a beta version of the Windows 7 SP1 / Server 2008 R2 SP1 available for public download. One of the new features in SP1 is RemoteFX, an enhancement to RDP that will give LAN users near-perfect remote desktop experiences (complete...

by Brian Madden on July 13, 2010 : 15 comments , 7,101 views
Quest's EOP "Xtreme" does amazing things for RDP latency (with video demo goodness)

Quest recently released version 7.1 of their vWorkspace Desktop Virtualization Suite. One of the cool new features is something called EOP "Xtreme," an enhancement to RDP that increases performance in environments with high latency. When Quest...

by Brian Madden on July 12, 2010 : 10 comments , 2,652 views
Video of new features in Quest vWorkspace 7.1

When we did our Geek Week: VDI Shootout back in March, one of the products we tested was Quest vWorkspace 7.0. They've since released the 7.1 version with some new features. In this video, Patrick Rouse visited our San Francisco office to show Gabe...

by Brian Madden on July 12, 2010 : 0 comments , 900 views
BYOPC misconception: If your users have admin rights, then you're already doing it. (The "own" part isn't literal)

Bring Your Own PC—BYOPC—is something that lots of folks (myself included) have been talking about for a few years now. It’s the term applied to the concept of end-users “owning” their own laptops while IT resources (such...

by Brian Madden on July 08, 2010 : 6 comments , 2,462 views
Madden’s client hypervisor paradox: If we had the tech to make client hypervisors useful, we wouldn’t need client hypervisors!

Many people (myself included) have been talking up the benefits of bare metal client hypervisors and how they could play a key role in the success of desktop virtualization. Unfortunately we’ve yet to see client hypervisors enter the mainstream...

by Brian Madden on July 07, 2010 : 25 comments , 3,524 views
Red Hat (finally) releases their desktop virtualization product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

We got to take a look at Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops at BriForum a few weeks ago, but they saved the release of the product for their own Red Hat Summit event last week. As you probably know, this is the long anticipated re-release...

by Gabe Knuth on July 02, 2010 : 7 comments , 2,726 views
Why Brian Madden and Chetan Venkatesh are missing the point about the future of VDI. It's really about the data.

After sitting engrossed in the breakout session that Brian Madden and Chetan Venkatesh presented at BriForum 2010 ("Deconstructing Brian's Paradox: VDI is here, like it or not."), independently both Brian and Chetan approached me and commented...

by Tim Mangan on June 30, 2010 : 17 comments , 3,718 views
Did VMware just cancel their client hypervisor outright?

It's been almost two months since I wrote about VMware delaying the release of View 4.5 (and we've since learned that the release is being delayed even longer ). Back then I wondered whether the delay was related to the client hypervisor. My thoughts...

by Brian Madden on June 28, 2010 : 7 comments , 5,836 views
VDI Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

If you're looking for an independent overview of the Server Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI) solutions and you're curious about the different features and functions of each vendor's, then this paper is for you! In the current market there's...

by Ruben Spruijt on June 25, 2010 : 11 comments , 8,052 views
Is Microsoft Windows in danger of becoming the "XP Mode" of the future app world?

As many of you know, Microsoft made a lot of changes in Windows Vista (and by extension Windows 7) that can break older applications. Since breaking applications is not a good thing for a new OS, Microsoft is addressing legacy Windows application compatibility...

by Brian Madden on June 24, 2010 : 10 comments , 3,710 views
My June 2010 VDI prediction deadline is here. Did it come true?

On this day two years ago, I wrote an article titled " Prediction: VDI will be ready for wholesale desktop replacement in 2010. Here's how we'll solve the problems to get there ." That original article now has 19,000 page views and 48...

by Brian Madden on June 23, 2010 : 11 comments , 3,992 views

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