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Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -

The whitepaper, Application Virtualization Solution Overview and Feature Compare matrix , will provide new and updated information about the various Application- and Desktop Delivery solutions, Application Virtualization in general and the main Application...

Ruben Spruijt on June 28, 2009 : 6 comments , 17,840 views
You think $500m for XenSource is a lot? That's about what Microsoft has spent on desktop virt companies over the past few years too.

There are a lot of people out there who think Citrix was a fool to spend $500m on XenSource . A few people think it was brilliant though. (Doug Brown had a good piece on the brilliance although I can't find it now.) I agree with Doug. Citrix paid...

Brian Madden on June 26, 2009 : 10 comments , 4,506 views
Microsoft’s RDP host-side rendering (Calista) plans include optional GPU offload hardware & custom chips. (Oh, and Hyper-V is required!)

Earlier this week I wrote about about Microsoft’s last minute change to RDP in Windows 7, where all DirectX components will now be rendered on the host . I based my post on an MSDN blog post by Microsoft employees Christa Anderson, Gaurav Daga,...

Brian Madden on June 24, 2009 : 13 comments , 11,278 views
My 2008 prediction about VDI being ready in 2010: a mid-point status update

It's been exactly one year since I wrote “ Prediction: VDI will be ready for wholesale desktop replacement in 2010. Here's how we'll solve the problems to get there. ” Since that whole article was me making predictions about how...

Brian Madden on June 23, 2009 : 20 comments , 8,105 views
Microsoft makes a post-RC change for RDP7: no more client-rendered DirectX

On Friday Microsoft announced (via an MSDN blog post ) some major changes to the way RDP will work in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This is interesting because both of those products are currently available as release candidates now. These changes...

Brian Madden on June 22, 2009 : 5 comments , 11,246 views
Early-bird registration for BriForum ends today!

Just a quick note to let you all know that today is the last day that members of BrianMadden.com can receive the special $300 discount off the registration fee for BriForum . If you're not already a registered user, you can sign up today and still...

Gabe Knuth on June 19, 2009 : 0 comments , 1,996 views
Is IBM’s new Smart Business Desktop Cloud secretly powered by Desktone?

Earlier this week, IBM announced its first wave of commercial cloud services . The news was a big step for them and was well covered by bloggers and via twitter, although I didn’t personally pay too much attention since I don’t really follow...

Brian Madden on June 19, 2009 : 7 comments , 6,239 views
RedHat SPICE vs RDP vs ICA performance video

I realized as I was writing today's VDIworks article that we never published the performance videos that we recorded last year when we visited Qumranet's (now Red Hat's) offices in the Bay Area. The information we got is very interesting,...

Gabe Knuth on June 18, 2009 : 18 comments , 38,173 views
VDIworks releases new VDI remote desktop connection protocol. Yawn or Yay?

This week, VDIworks launched a new connection protocol called VideoOverIP (VOIP? Taken. How about V/IP?) that purports to "drastically improve the user experience delivered in a hosted virtual desktop model." And while this isn't the first...

Gabe Knuth on June 18, 2009 : 5 comments , 6,315 views
Will Windows 7’s “offline domain join” finally rid us of all the third party “fast sysprep” functions? No :(

One of the things that’s most annoying about the desktop virtualization industry is that we’re doing things with Windows that Windows was never really designed for. For example, we’re taking a single Windows disk image and sharing it...

Brian Madden on June 16, 2009 : 5 comments , 18,715 views

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