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Finally! Citrix adds seamless app publishing from single-user desktop OSes. (Read the fine print though.)

In a MAJOR announcement from Citrix yesterday , the company finally plans to let customers connect to single seamless remote ICA applications running on single user (XP/Vista/7) hosts in the datacenter. Think of this just like published apps in seamless...

Published Jul 31 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,880 views, 11 comments

Live webcast today with Brian Madden and Peter Ghostine (noon EDT, 16:00 GMT)

Peter Ghostine is one of my favorite guys in the desktop virtualization industry. Most recently he founded Provision Networks (which was bought a few years ago by Quest Software ), and now he's the CTO of Quest's desktop virtualization division...

Published Jul 30 2009 by Brian Madden , 3,239 views, 2 comments

The Server 2008 R2 remote desktop logon process (BETA)

Kevin Goodman and I have created various "Logon Process" charts for Citrix and Terminal Services over the years. Since so much has changed for 2008 R2, we decided to create a brand-new chart from scratch. Since R2 is still beta (well, I guess...

Published Jul 28 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,404 views, 3 comments

What questions should I ask the 27 DEMO Lab vendors at BriForum?

Wow! Twenty-seven vendors are now setting up their equipment in the Chicago Hilton for the DEMO Lab at this year’s BriForum conference. There are some pretty huge crates being moved around with forklifts right now. We’re going to shoot videos of the demos...

Published Jul 21 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,410 views, 2 comments

Last minute BriForum details

BriForum 2009 Chicago starts tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Chicago Hilton South. Gabe and I flew in to Chicago on Friday, and we’ve already run into several attendees and presenters in the hotel. By tonight I think we’ll have pretty much taken over the hotel...

Published Jul 20 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,246 views, 1 comment

How can VMware compete in the desktop space? “We have the best hypervisor” is not relevant anymore.

I’m going to come right out and say it: I am not impressed with VMware’s desktop products, and I have no idea how they expect to compete against Citrix and Microsoft. Furthermore, I think VMware is damaging the industry by implying that just because they...

Published Jul 16 2009 by Brian Madden , 23,678 views, 29 comments

Microsoft creates two “VDI Suite” bundles. VECD lives on :(

Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner conference is taking place this week in New Orleans. There have been several announcements around desktop virtualization, including one about Microsoft bundling *most* of the components needed to build a complete VDI...

Published Jul 15 2009 by Brian Madden , 13,823 views, 12 comments

Want to deliver Citrix apps via System Center? It’s coming in 2010!

The other part of yesterday’s Citrix / Microsoft announcement was that you’ll soon be able to manage XenApp environments via Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Remember that Systems Center is the name for a whole family of products. Citrix...

Published Jul 14 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,498 views, 3 comments

Citrix plans to extend Citrix Receiver and Dazzle to deliver App-V apps too!

Citrix announced today that they would be extending the Citrix Receiver and Citrix Dazzle client software so that it can also provide “one client” access to applications delivered via Microsoft App-V. This will be in addition to the products’...

Published Jul 13 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,148 views, 9 comments

Just one more week until BriForum 2009!

I can't believe that it's here already. BriForum will take place the week after next, from July 21-23 in Chicago. I was going to write about how this year is shaping up to be our best ever, but really, don't I always say that? (Although it's...

Published Jul 10 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,127 views, 3 comments

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