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2010: the year of choices?!

The adoption of Application Virtualization, Server-hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the availability of Microsoft Windows 7 creates a lot of interesting and useful possibilities in the area of Application and Desktop Delivery (ADD). Multiple...

Ruben Spruijt on October 20, 2009 : 12 comments , 5,618 views
We did it! Citrix modifies XenDesktop 4 license plans. Thank you Citrix!

As everyone reading this is painfully aware, Citrix’s XenDesktop 4 announcement was overshadowed by the fact that they decided to change the licensing model with this new release. Previous versions were licensed based on concurrent users, while XenDesktop...

Brian Madden on October 20, 2009 : 16 comments , 21,286 views
Double-Take’s Flex product is like Citrix Provisioning Server without Citrix

Longtime readers know I’ve loved Provisioning Server ever since I learned about Ardence way back in 2006 . And I was excited when Citrix bought them later that year, as Citrix added code quality, support, and legitimacy to the whole thing. The only...

Brian Madden on October 19, 2009 : 30 comments , 10,064 views
Results of our Citrix XenDesktop 4 Licensing Survey. The community has spoken!

The results from our XenDesktop 4 Licensing Survey are in with over 280 participants. As expected they were largely in favor of Per User licensing. Haha...little blogger humor. In fact, the results were overwhelmingly against per user licensing, even...

Gabe Knuth on October 15, 2009 : 30 comments , 9,094 views
We need a new “user settings” framework before rich internet apps will replace Windows apps

Desktop and application virtualization are fundamentally about providing applications for users. In a corporate environment, these applications are almost exclusively Windows-based, meaning our mission to provide applications to users could perhaps more...

Brian Madden on October 14, 2009 : 16 comments , 6,197 views
How to tune a desktop OS to run in VDI, a video from BriForum 2009

Presented by: Tim Mangan, Founder of TMurgent Technologies One of the most often overlooked challenges in VDI environments is that most people don’t know how to tune a desktop OS so it can run as a VM on a remote server. Sure, we know all about...

Videos on October 13, 2009 : 0 comments , 1,104 views
Why I think "cloud" is a buzzword encapsulating all other buzzwords. A Buzzword Cloud, if you will.

I've been talking to anyone who'll listen about how I think "Cloud" is ridiculously over-hyped, and I even worked it into my article last week. Today, I want to talk about why I think "Cloud" is the biggest buzz word since...

Gabe Knuth on October 13, 2009 : 5 comments , 4,498 views
Take our version of Citrix's XenDesktop 4 licensing suvery. (Unlike them, we'll share the results publicly)

[UPDATE: Gabe has just published the results of this survey .] It's been less than a week since Citrix announced that they were changing their XenDesktop licensing from "per concurrent user" to "per user" without a change in price...

Brian Madden on October 12, 2009 : 15 comments , 7,023 views
Citrix’s change to per-named user XenDesktop licensing: Are they really screwing everyone, or are people over-reacting?

Citrix announced the details of XenDesktop 4 earlier this week , and so far no one is talking at all about new features. Why? Because Citrix also announced that licensing would change from the current “concurrent user” (CCU) basis to a “per...

Brian Madden on October 09, 2009 : 32 comments , 17,632 views
Brian Madden TV #20 - XenDesktop 4 license changes, plus our final VMworld 2009 wrap-up

In this week's Brian Madden TV, we start with a conversation about the community's reaction to Citrix's decision to change XenDesktop licensing from concurrent user to named user . Then we'll move on to our final segments from VMware's...

Brian Madden TV on October 08, 2009 : 6 comments , 7,734 views

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