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Citrix announces details of XenApp Feature Pack 2, available Sept 29.

[UPDATE: Since I first wrote this, I learned none of the "core" XenApp features are for Server 2008. The core XenApp updates are for 2003 only.] Yesterday Citrix announced details of the next release of XenApp which will be called “XenApp...

Brian Madden on September 17, 2009 : 15 comments , 36,335 views
Cool vendor demos and conversations from the VMworld 2009 exhibit hall

Yesterday I wrote about my thoughts of VMware at VMworld . Today I want to write about the other vendors who were there. Like previous VMworlds, there were a crazy amount (>100) of companies exhibiting. Luckily not all of them are involved in the desktop...

Brian Madden on September 16, 2009 : 11 comments , 8,814 views
After VMworld, VMware still has to prove they "get" desktops. 13 questions about their desktop strategy they need to answer.

Now that we’ve had a few weeks to recover, I figured I could finally take the time to answer the question that everyone’s been asking me: “What did you think of VMworld?” That question really needs to be answered in two parts:...

Brian Madden on September 15, 2009 : 12 comments , 11,282 views
New Project VRC Whitepaper: "VRC, VSI and Clocks Reviewed"

Ruben and I just released a new Project VRC whitepaper called “VRC, VSI and Clock reviewed”. The content of this whitepapers is quite academic, but very relevant to Project VRC. We describe in detail the things we have learned, and how we...

Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog on September 14, 2009 : 2 comments , 2,509 views
Brian Madden TV #18 - VMworld wrap-up #2 - Software-based PC-over-IP Super Show!

This week's Brian Madden TV show is our second (of four? five?) of our VMworld 2009 wrap-up shows. In this episode we focus on the joint VMware / Teradici demos of the software version of the PC-over-IP protocol that will be included in the upcoming...

Brian Madden TV on September 14, 2009 : 2 comments , 7,056 views
VSI 2.0 Beta 3 now public

We have been working on VSI 2.0 the whole summer. Login VSI 2.0 is the second iteration of Login VSI 1.0: the free and specifically designed benchmark for SBC and VDI environments. VSI 2.0 introduces completely new workloads, and a improved and more accurate...

Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog on September 08, 2009 : 2 comments , 3,712 views
Microsoft adds App-V for TS to the RDS CAL!

See this blog post from Microsoft about the changes in TS CAL licensing. In particular, they will now include the App-V for TS into the new Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS CAL! This doesn't get you an App-V for windows desktop CAL, which you would need...

Tim Mangan on September 08, 2009 : 28 comments , 7,379 views
VMware licenses RTO’s Profile Management technology for use in future VDI products

The only actual new announcement that VMware made about desktops at VMworld last week was that they were licensing RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles product for inclusion in some future version of VMware View. ( press release ) This is great news, as the...

Brian Madden on September 08, 2009 : 12 comments , 8,422 views
Brian Madden TV #17 - VMworld 2009 wrap-up: software PC-over-IP, client hypervisor, and RTO OEM

Gabe and Brian are at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week. (Read Brian's live blogs of the two keynotes - Day 1 and Day 2 .) It's been a busy few days with a lot of demos. We recorded enough video content for probably two or three weeks worth...

Brian Madden TV on September 03, 2009 : 10 comments , 10,325 views
Sequencing With Tim Mangan Episode 9 is now available

I've posted a new episode of " Sequencing With Tim Mangan ", an occasional series looking at the Microsoft App-V product in action. In this episode, we look at sequencing the latest version of Camtasia Studio from TechSmith . I use Microsoft...

Tim Mangan on September 03, 2009 : 0 comments , 3,489 views

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