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Geek Week VDI Day 1: Citrix XenDesktop 4 summary

This post, like all five Geek Week: VDI wrap-up posts, was co-written by Brian & Gabe. We'd already done three other vendors by the time Frank Anderson of Citrix rolled in (ten minutes before we did, actually) on Thursday morning, but we were...

Published Mar 29 2010 by Brian Madden , 16,654 views, 5 comments

Teradici CTO Randy Groves weighs in on the PC-over-IP / RemoteFX "custom chip" versus "GPU" discussion

Yesterday I wrote an article explaining how Microsoft's forthcoming RemoteFX enhancements to RDP can use GPUs or custom chip plug-in cards on the host to render the graphics. I compared Microsoft's use of GPUs to Teradici's use of custom chips...

Published Mar 25 2010 by Brian Madden , 7,524 views, 6 comments

Understanding the role of client and host CPUs, GPUs, and custom chips in RemoteFX

One of the major announcements from Microsoft last week was that the technology they acquired from Calista back in 2008 would be known as "RemoteFX" and released via Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Last week I wrote...

Published Mar 24 2010 by Brian Madden , 9,443 views, 11 comments

What's Microsoft's real reason for killing VECD?

By now you've all read about the changes Microsoft made to virtual desktops licensing last week, including: If you have Software Assurance (SA), there's no more "virtualization tax." (In other words, you don't have to pay an additional...

Published Mar 23 2010 by Brian Madden , 13,983 views, 11 comments

Microsoft announces "RemoteFX," the Calista-based Hyper-V-requiring PC-over-IP competitor. Here's our full analysis.

Today is a huge day for desktop virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix, and several other partners are announcing a slew of new things specifically related to desktop virtualization, and we'll dig deep into each of them over the next few days. There's...

Published Mar 18 2010 by Brian Madden , 27,251 views, 27 comments

Five years from now, will a 200-person company need any servers on site?

Last week I was asked an intriguing question: given the trend towards cloud-based services and applications, is it possible that a 200-person company will soon be able to have no servers onsite? If not, what will the future threshold be? Even in a cloud...

Published Mar 16 2010 by Brian Madden , 5,310 views, 19 comments

BriForum 2010: Check out the first 23 breakout sessions!

Last Friday we announced that the BriForum 2010 deadline for the $500 early-bird registration discount ends this coming Friday. Several folks commented that they'd like to see a breakout session list before they commit to coming to BriForum this year...

Published Mar 15 2010 by Brian Madden , 3,292 views, 4 comments

BriForum 2010 early-bird registration ends next week! ($500 discount)

BriForum 2010 will take place at the Chicago Hilton from June 15-17 this year. The regular registration price is $1495, although we're currently in the final few days of our early-bird promo where you can register for only $995. The early-bird rate...

Published Mar 11 2010 by Brian Madden , 2,238 views, 10 comments

Citrix releases report on ICA versus PC-over-IP. VMware cries foul. Both are half-right. Here's my full analysis.

A few weeks ago, a company called Miercom released a report ( download PDF ) that was sponsored by Citrix to compare XenDesktop 4 remoting (ICA protocol) to VMware View 4 remoting via PCoIP. Then last Friday, VMware's Mike Coleman wrote blog post...

Published Mar 08 2010 by Brian Madden , 22,846 views, 36 comments

Citrix releases virtual appliance versions of their WAN accelerator. When will this be built into XenDesktop?

Back in 2007 I wrote how WANscaler could become Citrix’s secret weapon if they integrated its WAN smarts into the server-side creation of ICA (now HDX) data packets. Then in 2009, I wrote about WAN optimization again , stressing that the emergence...

Published Mar 05 2010 by Brian Madden , 5,679 views, 3 comments

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