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Ron Oglesby leaves Dell to go to Unidesk? (err... Unidesk!)

The rumors are true. Industry superhero Ron Oglesby ( Linked In , twitter ) has confirmed ( via twitter :) that he’s leaving Dell to go to desktop virtualization startup Unidesk . Unidesk is kind of weird because they’re making a lot of noise...

Published Oct 27 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,272 views, 16 comments

If you’re free next week, Shawn Bass is giving his 5-day independent Citrix class in Las Vegas

For the past five years or so, I’ve been teaching my independent 5-day Citrix XenApp master class around the world. About three years ago Shawn Bass started teaching these classes too, and they’ve been well-received wherever we’ve taught...

Published Oct 27 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,044 views, 0 comments

Is VDI more "green" than traditional desktops? And if so, does it matter?

On our CitrixLive! webcast last week (Shawn Bass, Rick Dehlinger, Harry Labana, and me), we talked a bit about the power savings you can get with VDI. Or maybe I should say, we discussed whether you could actually get any power savings with VDI. The knee...

Published Oct 26 2009 by Brian Madden , 3,289 views, 9 comments

We did it! Citrix modifies XenDesktop 4 license plans. Thank you Citrix!

As everyone reading this is painfully aware, Citrix’s XenDesktop 4 announcement was overshadowed by the fact that they decided to change the licensing model with this new release. Previous versions were licensed based on concurrent users, while XenDesktop...

Published Oct 20 2009 by Brian Madden , 9,980 views, 16 comments

Double-Take’s Flex product is like Citrix Provisioning Server without Citrix

Longtime readers know I’ve loved Provisioning Server ever since I learned about Ardence way back in 2006 . And I was excited when Citrix bought them later that year, as Citrix added code quality, support, and legitimacy to the whole thing. The only...

Published Oct 19 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,672 views, 30 comments

We need a new “user settings” framework before rich internet apps will replace Windows apps

Desktop and application virtualization are fundamentally about providing applications for users. In a corporate environment, these applications are almost exclusively Windows-based, meaning our mission to provide applications to users could perhaps more...

Published Oct 14 2009 by Brian Madden , 3,501 views, 16 comments

Take our version of Citrix's XenDesktop 4 licensing suvery. (Unlike them, we'll share the results publicly)

[UPDATE: Gabe has just published the results of this survey .] It's been less than a week since Citrix announced that they were changing their XenDesktop licensing from "per concurrent user" to "per user" without a change in price...

Published Oct 12 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,526 views, 15 comments

Citrix’s change to per-named user XenDesktop licensing: Are they really screwing everyone, or are people over-reacting?

Citrix announced the details of XenDesktop 4 earlier this week , and so far no one is talking at all about new features. Why? Because Citrix also announced that licensing would change from the current “concurrent user” (CCU) basis to a “per...

Published Oct 09 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,807 views, 32 comments

Citrix announces XenDesktop 4 details, including bundling with XenApp

Earlier today Citrix made a slew of announcements about XenDesktop 4 , the latest version of their desktop and application delivery suite. The critical facts from the announcements are: XenDesktop can be used to deliver any kind of desktop, not just VDI...

Published Oct 06 2009 by Brian Madden , 12,695 views, 39 comments

How will you deal with 32-bit apps in an x64 world?

We’ve been talking quite a bit recently about how Citrix just released a slew updates for XenApp running on 32-bit Windows Server 2003 . We also know that they’re now busily working on “Parra,” the next major release of XenApp...

Published Oct 05 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,188 views, 9 comments

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