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Citrix Project Apollo: Aero, DirectX, and OpenGL via ICA

It's been over a year since Citrix first demoed "Project Apollo," their solution for remoting Vista Aero glass to clients. Displaying Vista Aero glass over a remote display protocol like ICA or RDP is complex, because Aero requires a GPU...

Published Dec 29 2008 by Brian Madden , 9,036 views, 16 comments

State of the industry survey: What products and techniques do you use today?

Are you curious how many people are using products from vendors other than Citrix? Do you want to know if anyone else is doing the "double hop" method of server-based computing? How many other companies also buy third-party profile management...

Published Dec 18 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,850 views, 2 comments

VDI, VDI+, VDI.next... Really, it's all about all desktops. (And so are we!)

Last night I was thinking about something I'd written last week. In a conversation about what is or isn't "VDI," I wrote about how the term "VDI" was evolving to what I called "VDI+", but that in five years it wouldn't...

Published Dec 11 2008 by Brian Madden , 5,498 views, 12 comments

Is offline VDI really that important? Yes! (But not for the reasons you think.)

I was speaking with some folks yesterday about VDI and the future of our industry, and they asked me, "Why do you make such a big deal about offline VDI? Do you really think it's that important?" And actually, people wrote the same type...

Published Dec 10 2008 by Brian Madden , 7,246 views, 11 comments

Citrix XenDesktop also allows streaming disk images to local laptops. So it's more than VDI, it's a "desktop delivery system."

Citrix's Robert Hammersmith took me to task last week for pigeon-holing XenDesktop as just an old-school server-based computing product that connects to Windows XP or Vista hosts instead of Terminal Server hosts. Specifically, he wrote : Brian frequently...

Published Dec 09 2008 by Brian Madden , 9,364 views, 10 comments

Virtualization "virtual" events in December

Citrix held their first (or one of their first?) "virtual" trade shows last Friday, called Citrix Delivery Center live. I attended (virtually), and it was actually pretty cool. It was basically like watching a live webcast (audio + slides),...

Published Dec 09 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,002 views, 5 comments

IBM launches Ubuntu-based VDI solution

Kevin Goodman (founder of RTO Software , previous BriForum presenter , and co-creator of the Logon Process Wall Chart with me) gave me a heads-up about IBM partnering with VDI-vendor Virtual Bridges and Canonical , the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux...

Published Dec 05 2008 by Brian Madden , 7,555 views, 11 comments

Today's VDI is like the Apple Newton. Some people loved it. Everyone else wished it was an iPhone.

I was talking to [my now colleague] Alex Barrett a few days ago about a story she was writing on VMware View 3. Referring to my article where I said DO NOT USE VDI TODAY , she asked whether View 3 was game-changing enough that people could actually start...

Published Dec 04 2008 by Brian Madden , 10,357 views, 6 comments

VMware releases their new VDI product, View 3. Here's a 60-second overview

Today VMware released their new VDI product, called VMware View 3 . View is a complete solution, combining the hypervisor, management tools, connection broker, and everything else needed into a single product. As a complete solution, View's main competition...

Published Dec 02 2008 by Brian Madden , 17,470 views, 26 comments

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