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Intel exec talks about why they bought client hypervisor-maker Neocleus

Last September I wrote about Intel buying Neocleus, a software company that was working on a Type 1 "bare metal" client hypervisor. (Well, actually this purchase was never officially confirmed by either company. Neocleus's website has remained...

Brian Madden on November 30, 2010 : 8 comments , 4,989 views
Understanding how storage design has a big impact on your VDI (updated September 2011)

Note: This article has been updated a few times since originally published back in December 2009, updated in December 2010 and September 2011; Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is hot. It’s cool, secure, centrally managed, flexible--it’s...

Ruben Spruijt on November 27, 2010 : 33 comments , 82,732 views
Parallels Containers 4.6 is released with no fanfare. Are they still relevant in the desktop virtualization space?

I was having a conversation with some folks from Quest Software today about the 7.2 version of vWorkspace (which is supposed to RTM any day now), and the the topic of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers came up. Quest vWorkspace, as you may recall, is the...

Brian Madden on November 24, 2010 : 7 comments , 5,077 views
A first look at Kaviza VDI-in-a-box 3.0 (they're doing it right!)

t's been a long time coming, especially since they're one of my favorite concepts in VDI, so I finally decided to sit down and get hands-on with Kaviza's VDI-in-a-Box solution. I had high hopes coming out of the gate, and I wasn't disappointed...

Gabe Knuth on November 23, 2010 : 26 comments , 10,895 views
Citrix Receiver for Windows v13 is finally multithreaded! (Shhh... Don't tell Citrix I told you!)

One of the cooler things that's happened for Citrix recently is that they've managed to hire Lee Rautenberg , the inventor of pcAnywhere, to join them as a principal software engineer. (This is actually pretty awesome and ironic, since back in...

Brian Madden on November 22, 2010 : 5 comments , 11,249 views
Microsoft TCO study: VDI is 11% more expensive than traditional PCs. One reason? Increased costs of Microsoft licensing!

Yesterday I learned about a study that Microsoft released ( PDF ) that compared the TCO of VDI versus traditional desktops. Their analysis was that with Windows XP SP3, VDI was 9% more expensive overall, and with Windows 7 VDI was 11% more expensive....

Brian Madden on November 19, 2010 : 12 comments , 14,851 views
OpenCloud Access is Citrix's response to VMware Project Horizon

A few weeks ago at Citrix Synergy in Berlin, Citrix announced OpenCloud Access and OpenCloud Bridge . Both products will join their OpenCloud line of cloud integration products, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The real news is that OpenCloud Access...

Gabe Knuth on November 17, 2010 : 5 comments , 7,066 views
Cisco enters the VDI fray with "VXI" (Related: we have a new leader in the "most press for least actual product" race!)

Yesterday Cisco announced something called Cisco " Virtualization Experience Infrastructure " (VXI), which is a "complete system" which addresses "the current state of fragmented solutions which complicate virtual desktop deployments...

Brian Madden on November 16, 2010 : 18 comments , 16,417 views
Microsoft to Quest in 2009: "A winning partnership." Microsoft to Quest in 2010: "Que-who?"

Back in April 2009 I wrote Move over Citrix! Microsoft and Quest form "a winning partnership" for desktop virtualization . This was when Microsoft started to embrace Quest as a desktop virtualization partner in addition to the love they heaped...

Brian Madden on November 12, 2010 : 30 comments , 6,694 views
Why I don't like MED-V

In American football, there's an expression which says, "If you're gonna rough the kicker, rough the f***ing kicker!" (Those who've seen our videos know this is one of Gabe's favorite sayings. See the footnote at the end of this article if you don't...

Brian Madden on November 11, 2010 : 4 comments , 5,364 views

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