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  • Why do people decide NOT to use VDI today?

    Yesterday's conversation on BrianMadden.com was about the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today . So I thought a fun follow-up for today would be to have the opposite conversation where we look at the real-world reasons that customers decide...
    Brian Madden on January 15, 2010 : 16 comments , 12,473 views
  • What are the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today?

    Yesterday I had a discussion with some business-type people who weren't terribly technical and who were interested in desktop virtualization as it relates to power savings. They were generally familiar with server virtualization and equated desktop...
    Brian Madden on January 14, 2010 : 20 comments , 9,106 views
  • Microsoft and Citrix...Is there a competition brewing?

    Brian and I have been talking, most recently on Brian Madden TV , about how Microsoft and Citrix have become competitors since each has a VDI solution. With their product lines and release dates fresh in my mind, I thought I'd take a look and see...
    Gabe Knuth on January 12, 2010 : 25 comments , 15,370 views
  • Best practices for virtualizing terminal servers, from Project VRC Phase 2

    Ruben and I are getting close to the release of the Project VRC phase 2 white paper. (Here's a primer on Project VRC if you haven't heard of it.) Although we've been discussing and presenting the best practices from the first paper around...
    Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog on January 09, 2010 : 10 comments , 11,646 views
  • Round up of last week’s “Oracle might buy Citrix” rumor

    The old rumor of Citrix getting acquired popped up again over the past few weeks when Briefing.com reported that Oracle might be interested in buying Citrix. Barron’s Tiernan Ray mentioned it on December 23, and The Register’s Timothy Prickett...
    Brian Madden on January 08, 2010 : 6 comments , 9,311 views
  • What’s the best configuration for WAN simulation of remoting protocols?

    Now that Gabe and I are back from the holidays, we’re getting ready to spend some quality time with several of the recently-released VDI products (both for our “ VDI Week ” and for our general knowledge and articles.) One of the first...
    Brian Madden on January 07, 2010 : 12 comments , 8,813 views
  • RemoteApp for Hyper-V - Microsoft's single-user app solution

    In the twixt-holiday lull last month, Microsoft threw up a blog post about a feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 called RemoteApp for Hyper-V. The blog post positioned the feature as an alternative to XP Mode on machines that aren't powerful enough...
    Gabe Knuth on January 06, 2010 : 7 comments , 9,640 views
  • Help us plan our week-long five-product head-to-head VDI shoot-out!

    A few months ago on Brian Madden TV , Gabe and I briefly mentioned that we were putting together a plan for something like a VDI version of “ Shark Week .” (For those outside the US, “Shark Week” is a week-long event on the Discovery...
    Brian Madden on January 05, 2010 : 35 comments , 9,632 views