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VMware clarifies what features they'll support via PC-over-IP for VDI

Like most conferences, VMware used the Day 2 keynote for the more technical content they wanted to share with the conference-wide audience. The keynote was led by VMware's CTO Steve Herrod. Steve confirmed the high level stuff that Paul Maritz mentioned...

Published Feb 25 2009 by Brian Madden , 16,543 views, 16 comments

Flashback: Our first article about VDI from 2005

Yesterday at VMworld Europe 2009, I gave a presentation called "VDI versus Terminal Services." During that presentation I talked how VDI came from nowhere very fast, and that even a few years ago people thought it was crazy. To that end, I promised...

Published Feb 25 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,714 views, 1 comment

Citrix in Jan: "We're partnering with Intel." VMware today: "Oh yeah? We're partnering with Intel AND we have them on stage. So suck it!"

About a month ago, Citrix announced "Project Independence," a Xen-based bare-metal client hypervisor. One of the big elements of this announcement was that Citrix was partnering with Intel to create this new hypervisor. In conversations with...

Published Feb 24 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,266 views, 7 comments

Citrix XenApp's new feature pack is really just a licensing change. How significant is this?

Yesterday Citrix announced a Feature Pack for XenApp 5 . (Interestingly they're just calling it "XenApp 5 Feature Pack," not "Feature Pack 1" or anything.) From what I can tell, there are not any new features per se, but rather...

Published Feb 24 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,735 views, 9 comments

How VMware is misleading everyone about the cost savings of VDI

I just got out of my first breakout session here at VMworld Europe 2009. It was a session about the cost savings of VDI. The presenter was good and the content was basically good. In the session, the presenter walked step-by-step through a comparison...

Published Feb 23 2009 by Brian Madden , 20,228 views, 31 comments

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VMware clarifies what features they'll support via PC-over-IP for VDI

Flashback: Our first article about VDI from 2005

Citrix in Jan: "We're partnering with Intel." VMware today: "Oh yeah? We're partnering with Intel AND we have them on stage. So suck it!"

Citrix XenApp's new feature pack is really just a licensing change. How significant is this?

How VMware is misleading everyone about the cost savings of VDI

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