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  • Our Geek Week: VDI Shootout methodology (and how you can help)

    The Super Bowl is over (congrats, Saints…hopefully the Browns can do that someday), and we're getting into full swing planning our VDI shootout, otherwise known as Geek Week. We've got conversations going with all of the companies involved...
    by Gabe Knuth , February 08, 2010 : 7 comments , 925 views

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  • Brian Madden TV #28 - Interview with Benny Tritsch, "fifth vendor" voting results, and news round-up

    In this week's Brian Madden TV, Gabe and Brian discuss Array Network's forthcoming iPhone remote desktop client , Citrix's Nirvana phone hardware spec , and the situation with RTO, Symantec, and VMware. Then Brian interviews Benny Tritsch...
    by Brian Madden TV on February 04, 2010 : 14 comments , 1,554 views

  • Symantec suddenly stops selling Workspace Profiles. Does this mean VMware is acquiring RTO?

    Last March, we learned that Symantec’s Workspace Profiles product was an OEM / rebranded edition of RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles . Then in September, we learned that VMware also signed an agreement with RTO Software for their Virtual Profiles...
    by Brian Madden on February 03, 2010 : 18 comments , 3,088 views

  • Help us pick the “fifth vendor” in our VDI week

    [UPDATED with Winner at the end of this article] Last month, Gabe and I announced that we’re planning on doing a five-day, five-product VDI shoot-out. There were a lot of great ideas in the conversation around the idea , and we’re working...
    by Brian Madden on February 02, 2010 : 15 comments , 3,215 views

  • BriForum 2010, June 15-17 in Chicago. Registration now open.

    After talking about BriForum 2010 for months and jockeying some dates around, we're pleased to let everyone know that we've finalized all the details for BriForum 2010 , which will take place from June 15-17, 2010 at the Chicago Hilton. 2010:...
    by Brian Madden on February 02, 2010 : 3 comments , 632 views

  • Next week: exclusive video interviews with Citrix's and VMware's desktop CTOs. What questions should I ask?

    February is "sweeps" month in the US, so we thought we should participate on BrianMadden.com with some great videos! Specifically, I'll be doing hour-long, one-on-one videos interviews with VMware's desktop CTO Scott Davis and Citrix's...
    by Brian Madden on February 01, 2010 : 9 comments , 1,386 views

  • Look out Pano, Sun, Ncomputing! Wyse Project Badger is their entry into the "zero client" space.

    Details are starting to emerge about something called Wyse Project "Badger," a software solution that will challenge the so-called "zero" clients like those from Pano Logic, Sun, and Ncomputing. Badger (which should come out of beta...
    by Brian Madden on January 29, 2010 : 10 comments , 2,791 views

  • iPad fever is going around, and we caught it! Is this the ultimate desktop virtualization client?

    I wasn't going to write anything about Apple's iPad for fear of being labeled a "fanboy," but I just can't help it. Yes, I want one, even though the name kind of sucks. (iSlate was cool, I thought.) Yes, it's mostly because it's...
    by Gabe Knuth on January 28, 2010 : 9 comments , 3,196 views

  • Everyone who needs VDI already has it

    Citrix, VMware, and other vendors are spending millions trying to convince customers that they need VDI. The reality is that everyone who really needs VDI is already using it. There are 500-700m corporate desktops in the world. The number of VDI users...
    by Brian Madden on January 27, 2010 : 6 comments , 3,687 views

  • "A fool with a tool is still a fool"--words of wisdom in IT

    When you've been building desktop and application virtualization solutions for so many years, you have to be blind not to spot the typical patterns which re-occur in almost every project. Actually, it's fun to identify them when you talk to your...
    by Jeroen van de Kamp on January 25, 2010 : 12 comments , 2,061 views

  • BriForum 2010 Call for Papers is officially open, you too can present!

    We've talked a bit about BriForum 2010 in the past, which will take place June 15-17 at the Chicago Hilton. This year's BriForum will be just about the same as BriForum 2009, except we'll have real food at the party and it will take place...
    by Brian Madden on January 25, 2010 : 1 comments , 1,144 views

  • Brian Madden TV #27 - 2010 trends and predictions

    For our first episode of 2010, Brian & Gabe sat down in the same room as their very first episode from a year ago. Today's episode is about about the desktop virtualization trends that will be important in 2010. Specifically, they discuss: Client...
    by Brian Madden TV on January 22, 2010 : 2 comments , 2,541 views

  • A Local User Group Goes Virtual with Virtualization Alliance

    So I'm helping run this local user group, Virtualization Boston , here in the Boston area. Being based on Virtualization, we like to use whatever virtualization we can. Now we have decided to put on an event and make it virtually available to others...
    by Tim Mangan on January 20, 2010 : 7 comments , 1,109 views

  • New Free App-V Self Support Tool (and how to make friends at the helpdesk)

    When you deploy App-V applications on laptops and pc's, expect a lot of helpdesk calls. While App-V is a mature application virtualization solution, it is interesting to see that a simple design decision does actually not make a lot of sense…...
    by Jeroen van de Kamp on January 19, 2010 : 0 comments , 2,173 views

  • Gabe's solicitation for prognostication (or, please send in your predictions for 2010!)

    Here's your invitation (ok, I'll stop with the -tion's) to comment or email us with your thoughts/predictions for 2010. This week, Brian and I will be together at our company meeting in Boston, and while we're there, we're going to...
    by Gabe Knuth on January 19, 2010 : 5 comments , 1,082 views

  • Is the world ready for the BYOPC / employee-owned PC?

    We've written quite a bit about the Bring-Your-Own-PC (BYOPC) / employee-owned PC concept over the years. (Check here and here if you're not familiar with the concept.) Now that Citrix and VMware are getting closer to releasing their client hypervisors...
    by Brian Madden on January 18, 2010 : 24 comments , 3,519 views

  • Why do people decide NOT to use VDI today?

    Yesterday's conversation on BrianMadden.com was about the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today . So I thought a fun follow-up for today would be to have the opposite conversation where we look at the real-world reasons that customers decide...
    by Brian Madden on January 15, 2010 : 15 comments , 6,355 views

  • What are the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today?

    Yesterday I had a discussion with some business-type people who weren't terribly technical and who were interested in desktop virtualization as it relates to power savings. They were generally familiar with server virtualization and equated desktop...
    by Brian Madden on January 14, 2010 : 20 comments , 4,815 views

  • Microsoft and Citrix...Is there a competition brewing?

    Brian and I have been talking, most recently on Brian Madden TV , about how Microsoft and Citrix have become competitors since each has a VDI solution. With their product lines and release dates fresh in my mind, I thought I'd take a look and see...
    by Gabe Knuth on January 12, 2010 : 25 comments , 5,792 views

  • Best practices for virtualizing terminal servers, from Project VRC Phase 2

    Ruben and I are getting close to the release of the Project VRC phase 2 white paper. (Here's a primer on Project VRC if you haven't heard of it.) Although we've been discussing and presenting the best practices from the first paper around...
    by Jeroen van de Kamp on January 09, 2010 : 10 comments , 3,570 views
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