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  • BriForum 2007 Chicago DVD set is now available

    The complete session content of BriForum Chicago 2007 is now available via a 3-disc DVD set. Gabe spent the last few months assembling and preparing the content, and everything we have is on these discs. (They're something like 22GB!)...
    Brian Madden on August 12, 2007 : 1 comments , 12,541 views
  • BriForum 2007 Chicago Video: Login Consultants Presents the Solution4 Framework

    Last week I wrote about the release of Login Consultants' massive scripting and automation framework called Solution4. Due to the high level of interest in this free framework, we're making the videos of their two sessions on this from BriForum available....
    Brian Madden on August 12, 2007 : 0 comments , 10,964 views
  • Application and Desktop delivery decision flowchart

    More and more people are wondering whether to use Virtual Desktop Infrastucture, Server Based Computing and local desktops? Is VDI replacing SBC? Is SBC replacing the local desktop? What about application virtualization and disk streaming technology. How do these solutions fit in the application- and desktop delivery market space? This flowchart can be used as a guideline to determine which application and desktop delivery scenario fits your business needs and requirements....
    Ruben Spruijt on August 09, 2007 : 1 comments , 13,216 views
  • Article: Application and Desktop delivery advantages and disadvantages

    More and more people are wondering whether to use Virtual Desktop Infrastucture, Server Based Computing and local desktops? Is VDI replacing SBC? Is SBC replacing the local desktop? What about application virtualization and disk streaming technology. How do these solutions fit in the application- and desktop delivery market space? This document will provide benefits and disadvantages for application- and desktop delivery so-lutions. The Flowchart “Application and desktop delivery decision flowchart” will help in making the decision which application- and desktop delivery solution fits best in your business and technical requirements. Hopefully this document makes sense for your environment...
    Ruben Spruijt on August 09, 2007 : 0 comments , 12,493 views
  • Should Citrix buy a hypervisor?

    Now that Citrix is focusing on end-to-end application delivery, people have been speculating / asking whether Citrix needs to get into the hypervisor market. The word on the street is that they're looking at XenSource for $500M. Does this make sense?...
    Brian Madden on August 08, 2007 : 45 comments , 22,068 views
  • Share your Application, Desktop delivery and Hardware Virtualization RSS feeds

    The usage of RSS feeds is very usefull for us as IT-Pro's. With these feeds the most actual information of community forms, blogs, corporate sites is published realtime to you. A must have for each IT-Pro!. I have exported my RSS feeds, with focus on application/desktop delivery and hardware virtualization and made it available for you....
    Ruben Spruijt on August 08, 2007 : 0 comments , 11,393 views
  • Citrix invests in xDI vendor Desktone

    Last week, Desktone, Inc. announced that it had received $17 million in funding from a variety of sources. One of those sources was Citrix, so we decided to find out what the fuss is about.

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    Gabe Knuth on August 07, 2007 : 3 comments , 15,810 views
  • Login Consultants releases a massive framework that can automate pretty much everything. Oh, and it's free.

    Jeroen van de Kamp and Login Consultants have just released a massive framework that can manage all aspects of your Citrix or Terminal Server environment. Think of it like the Flex Profile Kit, except for everything....
    Brian Madden on August 05, 2007 : 15 comments , 18,793 views
  • It had to happen to Microsoft...

    I could not believe it when I first saw it. Then I thought about all that money Microsoft was spending and I guess it had to happen. I was on the Microsoft Download Center today when......
    Tim Mangan on August 03, 2007 : 1 comments , 12,323 views
  • Take a look at our new video player

    After over two years of experimentation, we finally have (what we think is) a good way to deliver recorded technical sessions and training classes over the Internet. We've developed our own Flash-based media player that can show two separate video streams side-by-side.

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    Brian Madden on August 02, 2007 : 4 comments , 12,430 views