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Dell's new thin client: jack of all trades, master of none?

Behold the Dell Optiplex FX160 : Yesterday Dell announced their "flex client" series of desktop devices. This is basically a super-small Optiplex-branded client based on Intel's Atom processor . So what is it? A thin client? A desktop PC...

Published Oct 30 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,061 views, 10 comments

Save the date: BriForum 2009 Chicago will be July 22-24

We've decided definitively that next year's BriForum will be from July 22-24, 2009. We're going to use the same venue as last year, which was the Chicago Navy Pier. 2009 will be our seventh (!) BriForum, and we're very excited about it...

Published Oct 28 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,213 views, 6 comments

Hey! We have a new website

We launched a new version of BrianMadden.com last night. Hopefully the only changes you notice are that it's faster and more available. A few notes: The forums are pretty cool now. We have the Community News section, which has the RSS feeds of various...

Published Oct 28 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,793 views, 22 comments

VMware's display protocol strategy: Teradici, TCX, ALP, and counting...

VMware made several desktop announcements at VMworld last month. We've taken a deeper looks at their plans for a bare-metal client hypervisor and the ability for multiple VMs to share the same disk image, In today's article, we'll dig into VMware's plans in the remote display protocol space. To do that, we need to back up a bit and look at what VMware was up to before this year's VMworld....

Published Oct 21 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,369 views, 17 comments

Citrix and VMware test the "employee-owned PC" with their own employees

By now most of you know that I love the concept of the "employee-owned PC." If you're not familiar with it, it's the idea that instead of the IT department issuing a standard corporate laptop to their employees, each employee can pick whatever laptop he or she wants, as long as it meets some minimum requirements....

Published Oct 20 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,116 views, 27 comments

Poll Results: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services penetration as of Oct 2008

Even though Windows Server 2008 has been out for about eight months, it's seemed to me that not too many people are using it for Terminal Servers. Curious to find out if this was part of a larger trend, we posted a poll asking a few questions about this last week. 152 people responded to our poll, and this article sumarizes the results....

Published Oct 19 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,248 views, 3 comments

A review of Microsoft's "getVIRTUALnow" launch event in San Francisco

On September 8, Microsoft held their global getVIRTUALnow Summit, the official launch event in Seattle for Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the new versions of MIcrosoft's Desktop and Application Virtualization products. This free summit promised to help you become a Microsoft virtualization expert within your company....

Published Oct 16 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,817 views, 11 comments

Is anyone using Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services yet?

Windows Server 2008 has been out for almost eight months now. But is anyone using it yet? Sure, Terminal Server 2008 has a lot of new features that will let it stand on its own. But now that Citrix supports Server 2008 with XenApp 5, I'm curious about how many people out there are actually using Server 2008 in production? (Both for standalone Terminal Services and as a platform for Citrix.)...

Published Oct 14 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,909 views, 27 comments

A deeper look at VMware's upcoming "View Composer" VDI disk image technology (i.e. multiple VMs sharing the same disk image)

At VMworld last month, VMware announced several future capabilities of their VDI product. Yesterday we looked at VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, and today we'll look at the technology that will allow multiple VDI VMs to share the same disk image. This will be done with a new product that will be called "VMware View Composer." ("VMware View" is the new name for their VDI product, so "View Composer" is what you use to compose your disk images. Get it?)...

Published Oct 13 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,453 views, 37 comments

A deeper look at VMware's upcoming bare-metal client hypervisor

At VMworld last month, VMware announced several future capabilities of their VDI product, including a bare-metal client-side hypervisor. The idea behind this is that if you have a hypervisor running locally on a client device, you can get the "best of both worlds," combining the centralized management of VDI and performance and flexibility of local compting. Having a local / offline capability will be an important feature of future VDI environments....

Published Oct 13 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,969 views, 25 comments

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