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A technical explanation of why the whole “layering” / shared image thing is so difficult

Yesterday’s main article on BrianMadden.com was about the disk images used for today’s VDI deployments. We specifically looked at whether the technologies that allow many users to “share” a single master image are actually ready...

Published Nov 24 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,951 views, 27 comments

Is today's VDI really only about non-shared, personal images?

Today's topic is something that BrianMadden.com user " AppDetective " has been talking about in almost every one of the 243 comments he's posted. Essentially he's saying that VDI today is limited to persistent, or "1-to-1"...

Published Nov 23 2009 by Brian Madden , 7,741 views, 27 comments

Reflections on our work life on the one year anniversary of being acquired by TechTarget

On November 20, 2008, Gabe and I wrote that The Brian Madden Company had been acquired by TechTarget . It's hard to believe it's been a year already, although it's cool that I finally know most of my coworkers' names. In the past year...

Published Nov 20 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,027 views, 9 comments

If imitation is flattery, Microsoft MultiPoint will make NComputing blush

Last week Microsoft announced something called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 , a technology for classrooms that lets up to ten students use individual terminals to share the resources of one single host computer. In technical terms you could think of...

Published Nov 17 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,684 views, 9 comments

Is VDI finally cheaper than traditional PCs for CapEx?

One of the promises of VDI has always been that it’s "cheaper" than traditional PCs. (Actually, that's a promise of server-based computing in general, not just VDI.) Anyone who's looked into this quickly learns there are two kinds...

Published Nov 16 2009 by Brian Madden , 9,938 views, 27 comments

Announcing the BrianMadden.com daily podcast

Last week we started an experiment where we're publishing audio version of our daily articles in a sort of daily podcast. These are "real" audio versions, with Gabe or me actually recording ourselves explaining the articles. We attach the...

Published Nov 15 2009 by Brian Madden , 8,101 views, 1 comment

Answers to this week’s most common questions about VMware View 4

I wrote about VMware’s View 4 announcement on Monday. Since then there have been a lot of questions raised. I’ve managed to get answers to some, and I’m working on getting answers to the rest. But I figured that for today I’d update...

Published Nov 13 2009 by Brian Madden , 11,770 views, 20 comments

Please tell me why I should care about Sun?

I've been getting lots of crap from the commenters on BrianMadden.com accusing me of ignoring Sun's desktop virtualization offerings. And these people have a point. I have been ignoring Sun. I just don't "get" why anyone would use...

Published Nov 11 2009 by Brian Madden , 9,913 views, 56 comments

VMware announces View 4 with software PC-over-IP and vSphere 4 support

Today VMware announced the most recent version of their desktop product, View 4. This new version has two main new features: A software-based, PC-over-IP remoting protocol is built-in View now runs on vSphere 4. (That’s right—it didn’t...

Published Nov 09 2009 by Brian Madden , 12,030 views, 33 comments

Is the future of remote display protocols based on hypervisor integration?

When I wrote about Net2Display’s 1.0 specification release last week, I reached out to several different industry experts and committee members for opinions to include in the article. One of those folks was Desktone CTO Clint Battersby. In addition...

Published Nov 06 2009 by Brian Madden , 5,333 views, 6 comments

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