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Move over Citrix! Microsoft and Quest form "a winning partnership" for desktop virtualization

At this week’s Microsoft Management Summit , Microsoft and Quest Software jointly announced that the two of them are “a winning partnership” for desktop virtualization. They even have a dedicated microsite and an eight-city road show...

Published Apr 29 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,911 views, 12 comments

Microsoft will add a “Windows XP mode” to Windows 7 via a built-in XP virtual machine

By now you’ve probably read that Microsoft has confirmed that they’ll include a free add-on to Windows 7 Professional and higher that will run Windows XP in a specially-modified copy of Virtual PC for the purposes of application compatibility...

Published Apr 28 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,908 views, 13 comments

BriForum 2009 Chicago breakout session submissions are due at midnight

Today's the last day to submit breakout sessions for BriForum. We have probably close to 100 submissions so far, so we'll definitely have a lot of great stuff to choose from. We'll start going through the list tomorrow, and we'll probably...

Published Apr 27 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,847 views, 0 comments

BrianMadden.com’s “master” list of vendors

[NOTE: this page is available at brianmadden.com/vendors ] As I wrote a few months ago , Gabe and I are tracking over 100 vendors in the desktop and application virtualization space. We’re trying to talk to all of them in 2009, and while that sounds...

Published Apr 27 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,715 views, 21 comments

Oracle buys Sun. Is there a desktop virtualization angle here?

Or maybe that should be "desktop virtualization angel ," in that Oracle will do with the Sunrays what they did with their own NCs a decade ago? Am I joking about that? I dunno. I still don't "get" why people like Sun Rays so much...

Published Apr 21 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,015 views, 11 comments

Citrix preps Feature Pack 1 for XenDesktop 3, catapulting its ICA features past ICA in XenApp. Behold, the powers of competition!

It’s becoming clear that XenDesktop is going to be the technology leader for Citrix moving forward. In the old days, Citrix’s flagship product was MetaFrame/Presentation Server/XenApp. But now that Citrix has competition in the VDI space, (and now that...

Published Apr 20 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,730 views, 22 comments

Is anyone using add-on printing products anymore, or is the built-in stuff from Citrix and Microsoft good enough?

Back in the day, (which was what, six years ago?), it was a de facto "requirement" that you used third-party add-on printing products to make your Citrix or Terminal Server environment work. In addition to solving the driver management problem...

Published Apr 16 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,665 views, 23 comments

Thin client devices: more or less relevant in the future?

It's 2009. Are we still talking about whether thin client devices will be relevant in the future? Yep. (As in "yep, we're talking about it," not saying "yep, they'll be relevant.") To be fair, I think the conversation is...

Published Apr 10 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,431 views, 12 comments

If you haven’t looked at WAN optimizer appliances, now’s the time. And they get more important with these “New Desktops”

Citrix bought a company called Orbital Data back in July 2006 which ultimately led to the creation of Citrix’s WANscaler line of appliances. This was the first time I really started paying attention to proper WAN accelerators or WAN optimizers....

Published Apr 08 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,468 views, 18 comments

SBC and Terminal Server will still be important in the future, even as client hypervisors and VDI take off

I was having a conversation last week with some folks about the evolution of VDI and how the New Desktop will evolve to run anywhere, including locally and offline. Someone asked a question which was essentially "If your June 2010 VDI vision becomes...

Published Apr 06 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,143 views, 12 comments

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