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VMware releases VDM2, the new version of their VDI product. What will the impact be?

Yesterday VMware released the much-awaited update to their VDI product, VDM2. This is a complete VDI solution, packaging VI3, a desktop broker, and the management tools you need to have a turnkey VDI solution. How will it fare against Citrix, Microsoft, and Provision Networks in the market?...

Published Jan 31 2008 by Brian Madden , 12,514 views, 50 comments

Is is time for Microsoft to create "User Center" to complement System Center?

All of the big vendors are so focused on managing "systems" (virtual, local, remote, streaming, on-demand, snap-shotted) that they're forgetting the "other half" of what customers have to deal with each day: the users! What if they took user management as seriously as system management?...

Published Jan 30 2008 by Brian Madden , 7,656 views, 24 comments

Submit your session ideas for BriForum 2008 Chicago, the event website is live

It's a new year, and BriForum is just around the corner. As we announced in October, BriForum 2008 Chicago will take place June 16-18, 2008, at the Chicago Navy Pier. We've updated BriForum.com with all the information about this year's conference. Can you believe this will be our sixth BriForum?...

Published Jan 28 2008 by Brian Madden , 9,545 views, 6 comments

Will Microsoft buy Citrix?

Last week a few news sites claimed that Forbes said that Microsoft might buy Citrix. While those claims aren't really valid, it does make for a fun mental exercise to think about....

Published Jan 27 2008 by Brian Madden , 14,282 views, 23 comments

Microsoft gets serious about virtualized desktops (in a Microsofty way)

Now that we've spent a whole week looking at each aspects of Microsoft's big desktop virtualization announcement from Monday, let's take a step back and look at what this means in the grander scheme of things....

Published Jan 25 2008 by Brian Madden , 8,189 views, 8 comments

Microsoft and Citrix clarify XenSource / Hyper-V interaction. Both companies win.

Part of Tuesday's big virtualization announcement from Microsoft detailed how Microsoft and Citrix would work together in the Hyper-V and XenSource space. It turns out that Citrix will play a critical role in what Microsoft claims is their "comprehensive" management platform....

Published Jan 24 2008 by Brian Madden , 11,514 views, 16 comments

Microsoft reconsiders virtualization rules for Vista: Now you can (legally) run it in a VM, lowers VECD pricing

It's been almost a year since Microsoft officially announced their licensing policies for using Vista in virtual machine environments. Today they made a few changes to those policies....

Published Jan 23 2008 by Brian Madden , 13,208 views, 18 comments

Citrix XenDesktop will run on Microsoft Hyper-V!

Citrix and Microsoft jointly announced yesterday that Citrix XenDesktop will run on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. This comes despite the fact that Citrix created XenDesktop specifically so that it was a single product that didn't need anything external, like a hypervisor from Microsoft....

Published Jan 23 2008 by Brian Madden , 10,935 views, 18 comments

Microsoft buys Calista Technologies. What will this mean?

Microsoft announced that they're buying Calista Technologies, a startup software vendor whose technology can virtualize the graphics system in Windows, thereby delivering a full multimedia Windows desktop via a regular RDP protocol. What will this mean for Microsoft's VDI strategy, and how will this affect Citrix?...

Published Jan 22 2008 by Brian Madden , 20,522 views, 21 comments

Tomorrow's news today: Microsoft buys VDI vendor Calista Technologies, expands partnership with Citrix

Microsoft will announce tomorrow that they are buying VDI vendor Calista Technologies . They will also announce an expanded partnership with Citrix where Citrix and Microsoft will jointly market their virtualization services. Off-the-record rumors of...

Published Jan 21 2008 by Brian Madden , 10,129 views, 8 comments

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