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  • Look out Pano, Sun, Ncomputing! Wyse Project Badger is their entry into the "zero client" space.

    Details are starting to emerge about something called Wyse Project "Badger," a software solution that will challenge the so-called "zero" clients like those from Pano Logic, Sun, and Ncomputing. Badger (which should come out of beta...
    Published Jan 29 2010 by Brian Madden , 8,086 views, 12 comments

  • Everyone who needs VDI already has it

    Citrix, VMware, and other vendors are spending millions trying to convince customers that they need VDI. The reality is that everyone who really needs VDI is already using it. There are 500-700m corporate desktops in the world. The number of VDI users...
    Published Jan 27 2010 by Brian Madden , 7,153 views, 6 comments

  • BriForum 2010 Call for Papers is officially open, you too can present!

    We've talked a bit about BriForum 2010 in the past, which will take place June 15-17 at the Chicago Hilton. This year's BriForum will be just about the same as BriForum 2009, except we'll have real food at the party and it will take place...
    Published Jan 25 2010 by Brian Madden , 3,328 views, 1 comment

  • Is the world ready for the BYOPC / employee-owned PC?

    We've written quite a bit about the Bring-Your-Own-PC (BYOPC) / employee-owned PC concept over the years. (Check here and here if you're not familiar with the concept.) Now that Citrix and VMware are getting closer to releasing their client hypervisors...
    Published Jan 18 2010 by Brian Madden , 8,230 views, 25 comments

  • Why do people decide NOT to use VDI today?

    Yesterday's conversation on BrianMadden.com was about the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today . So I thought a fun follow-up for today would be to have the opposite conversation where we look at the real-world reasons that customers decide...
    Published Jan 15 2010 by Brian Madden , 10,990 views, 16 comments

  • What are the real-world non-BS reasons people use VDI today?

    Yesterday I had a discussion with some business-type people who weren't terribly technical and who were interested in desktop virtualization as it relates to power savings. They were generally familiar with server virtualization and equated desktop...
    Published Jan 14 2010 by Brian Madden , 8,001 views, 20 comments

  • Round up of last week’s “Oracle might buy Citrix” rumor

    The old rumor of Citrix getting acquired popped up again over the past few weeks when Briefing.com reported that Oracle might be interested in buying Citrix. Barron’s Tiernan Ray mentioned it on December 23, and The Register’s Timothy Prickett...
    Published Jan 08 2010 by Brian Madden , 8,575 views, 6 comments

  • What’s the best configuration for WAN simulation of remoting protocols?

    Now that Gabe and I are back from the holidays, we’re getting ready to spend some quality time with several of the recently-released VDI products (both for our “ VDI Week ” and for our general knowledge and articles.) One of the first...
    Published Jan 07 2010 by Brian Madden , 7,185 views, 12 comments

  • Help us plan our week-long five-product head-to-head VDI shoot-out!

    A few months ago on Brian Madden TV , Gabe and I briefly mentioned that we were putting together a plan for something like a VDI version of “ Shark Week .” (For those outside the US, “Shark Week” is a week-long event on the Discovery...
    Published Jan 05 2010 by Brian Madden , 8,709 views, 35 comments
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