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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...

Gabe Knuth on July 30, 2010 : 11 comments , 5,839 views
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...

Ron Oglesby on July 27, 2010 : 49 comments , 13,177 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...

Brian Madden on July 26, 2010 : 7 comments , 5,143 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...

Brian Madden on July 22, 2010 : 29 comments , 5,576 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...

Brian Madden on July 21, 2010 : 23 comments , 7,769 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 ,...

Brian Madden on July 20, 2010 : 2 comments , 4,578 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...

Brian Madden on July 19, 2010 : 7 comments , 7,748 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...

Brian Madden on July 16, 2010 : 5 comments , 6,006 views
F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local!

(Be sure to check out Ron Oglesby's rebuttal to this: Brian's wrong...about VDI and local storage ) 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...

Brian Madden on July 14, 2010 : 72 comments , 23,479 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...

Brian Madden on July 13, 2010 : 17 comments , 24,678 views

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