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Is standard RDP 7 ready for everyday desktop replacement? I’m on a mission to find out!

I’ve been writing about remote display protocols for over six years now. In that time I’ve written about performance, user experience, bandwidth, and latency. I’ve written about the importance of the display protocol in a desktop replacement...

Published Jul 02 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,242 views, 6 comments

The first “real” layering product? MokaFive’s new v2.0 looks pretty good!

Last week MokaFive released version 2 of their desktop virtualization product (which I don’t think really has a name apart from just “MokaFive.”). If you’re not familiar with MokaFive, they’re a desktop virtualization software company that’s focused on...

Published Jul 01 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,494 views, 13 comments

You think $500m for XenSource is a lot? That's about what Microsoft has spent on desktop virt companies over the past few years too.

There are a lot of people out there who think Citrix was a fool to spend $500m on XenSource . A few people think it was brilliant though. (Doug Brown had a good piece on the brilliance although I can't find it now.) I agree with Doug. Citrix paid...

Published Jun 26 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,956 views, 10 comments

Microsoft’s RDP host-side rendering (Calista) plans include optional GPU offload hardware & custom chips. (Oh, and Hyper-V is required!)

Earlier this week I wrote about about Microsoft’s last minute change to RDP in Windows 7, where all DirectX components will now be rendered on the host . I based my post on an MSDN blog post by Microsoft employees Christa Anderson, Gaurav Daga,...

Published Jun 24 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,847 views, 13 comments

My 2008 prediction about VDI being ready in 2010: a mid-point status update

It's been exactly one year since I wrote “ Prediction: VDI will be ready for wholesale desktop replacement in 2010. Here's how we'll solve the problems to get there. ” Since that whole article was me making predictions about how...

Published Jun 23 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,660 views, 20 comments

Microsoft makes a post-RC change for RDP7: no more client-rendered DirectX

On Friday Microsoft announced (via an MSDN blog post ) some major changes to the way RDP will work in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This is interesting because both of those products are currently available as release candidates now. These changes...

Published Jun 22 2009 by Brian Madden , 4,140 views, 5 comments

Is IBM’s new Smart Business Desktop Cloud secretly powered by Desktone?

Earlier this week, IBM announced its first wave of commercial cloud services . The news was a big step for them and was well covered by bloggers and via twitter, although I didn’t personally pay too much attention since I don’t really follow...

Published Jun 19 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,721 views, 7 comments

Will Windows 7’s “offline domain join” finally rid us of all the third party “fast sysprep” functions? No :(

One of the things that’s most annoying about the desktop virtualization industry is that we’re doing things with Windows that Windows was never really designed for. For example, we’re taking a single Windows disk image and sharing it...

Published Jun 16 2009 by Brian Madden , 2,353 views, 5 comments

Does startup Liquidware Labs hold the secret to VDI success?

What happens when one of the founders of Foedus (the professional services firm VMware bought in 2008 ), the founder of Vizioncore (the software vendor Quest bought in 2007 ), and a software company called vmSight get together? You get a new company called...

Published Jun 16 2009 by Brian Madden , 3,095 views, 7 comments

You know why I like blade workstations? Because they’re predictable.

Can you believe that it’s been over five years since we wrote our first article comparing TS-based SBC solutions to workstation-based SBC solutions ? Of course in those days we were talking about PC blades in the datacenter rather than VMs, but the idea...

Published Jun 11 2009 by Brian Madden , 1,612 views, 8 comments

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