Original Blogs on BrianMadden.com - August 2009 - Brian Madden Brian Madden

Look out PC-over-IP! Citrix announces new host-side GPU-based encoding for HDX 3D

One of the most-anticipated demos we hope to see at VMworld this week is of VMware’s software-only implementation of Teradici’s PC-over-IP remote display protocol. If VMware can actually come out with a decent implementation of PC-over-IP...

Published Aug 31 2009 by Brian Madden , 12,084 views, 14 comments

Why I’m not speaking at VMworld

I’ve received several emails from folks who can’t find my session on the VMworld agenda. Did VMware kick me out because of my session last year ? Or because of what I wrote about them misleading people . ( Twice !) Or because of my article...

Published Aug 28 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,858 views, 8 comments

The challenge for the "one hit wonder" desktop virtualization vendors

While there's not too much that most readers of BrianMadden.com agree on, I'd be willing to bet that we can all agree on (1) desktop virtualization will be big, and (2) no single vendor today offers anywhere near the complete nirvana solution...

Published Aug 27 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,136 views, 31 comments

New Wyse thin clients have dedicated streaming media processors. Is this the future of client+server computing?

In the older days of server-based computing, we could get away with telling our users that we didn’t support multimedia, and users knew it wouldn’t work so they didn’t even try. Life was simpler then. But now things are different. First...

Published Aug 25 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,368 views, 11 comments

Hundreds of hours of past BriForum session videos are now online (and free!)

We now have hundreds of videos of past BriForum sessions online and freely available. They’re all in the “videos” section of BrianMadden.com which is accessible via the red menu across the top of the page or via the direct link of www...

Published Aug 21 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,790 views, 4 comments

New startup Wanova hopes to enable local VDI over the WAN with continuously-synced disk images

A desktop virtualization company called “ Wanova ” came out of stealth mode yesterday . Their forthcoming software product called “ Mirage ” is a solution for streaming, managing, and bi-directionally syncing Windows disk images...

Published Aug 20 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,875 views, 5 comments

Is application compatibility still a problem for Terminal Server?

Microsoft just updated their TS Application Analyzer , a free tool that analyzes EXEs to help figure out whether they’ll work on a Terminal Server (or how much effort will be required to get them to work). But that got me thinking: With the new features...

Published Aug 18 2009 by Brian Madden , 6,183 views, 12 comments

Should Citrix allow standalone ICA connections to desktops without a broker?

Last week, Citrix’s Chris Fleck started a conversation over at the Citrix blog site where he asked whether there’s value in Citrix enabling ICA connections (with full HDX capabilities ) to desktop OSes directly instead of forcing users to...

Published Aug 17 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,929 views, 22 comments

BriForum(s) 2010 - help us pick dates & the location

BriForum 2009 was a huge success, and the planning is already underway for BriForum in 2010. To that end, please help us pick the time of year, days of the week, and geographic location for BriForum by completing a short (one-page) survey . While we've...

Published Aug 14 2009 by Brian Madden , 3,608 views, 8 comments

Teradici / VMware will demo soft-to-soft PC-over-IP at VMworld. Boom or bust?

One of the big desktop announcements from last year’s VMworld was that Teradici and VMware signed an agreement to work together to develop a software version of Teradici’s PC-over-IP remote display protocol for inclusion in VMware’s desktop virtualization...

Published Aug 13 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,678 views, 14 comments

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