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Announcing the second edition of The VDI Delusion: "The New VDI Reality"

Big news from BriForum 2013 London, which kicks off today! It’s been a little over a year since Gabe, Jack, and I published the first edition of our book, The VDI Delusion . While we're incredibly proud of that book, in hindsight we're not sure...

Published May 16 2013 by Brian Madden , 3,357 views, 2 comments

VDI is still about trade-offs. The difference is that in 2013, you can pick which ones.

Blog posting on BrianMadden.com might be a bit light this week as we scramble to put the final touches on our BriForum 2013 London conference which takes place this Thursday and Friday in London. (If you haven't registered yet and like to attend, you...

Published May 14 2013 by Brian Madden , 3,452 views, 3 comments

Two reasons why User Installed Apps don't matter anymore

It's been awhile since we've talked about User Installed Apps (UIA) on the site. But with the news (rumor?) that AppSense is stopping development on their StrataApps UIA project , I'm starting to wonder if UIA even matters anymore? No, actually we've...

Published May 13 2013 by Brian Madden , 3,372 views, 4 comments

Is it too late for Terminal Server live session migration?

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of us in the SBC space dreamed of a Terminal Server feature called "live session migration." We wanted to be able to take a fully running user session from one server and instantly and transparently move it...

Published Apr 29 2013 by Brian Madden , 4,429 views, 15 comments

BriForum 2013 Chicago "super early bird" registration discount ends tomorrow!

The BriForum 2013 Chicago super early bird discount ends tomorrow, Friday, April 26, so you only have two days to save $300 for this year's BriForum conference taking place July 30 – August 1. Now that we've announced this year's agenda and session...

Published Apr 25 2013 by Brian Madden , 2,826 views, 0 comments

Will single app desktop VMs replace RDSH / Terminal Server in the future?

I've been writing about the future of the Windows desktop quite a bit recently. My belief is that as the world moves to devices and tablets and web apps and cloud whatever, the lowly Windows desktop application will be reduced to middleware , only used...

Published Apr 22 2013 by Brian Madden , 4,643 views, 9 comments

Being "compliant" doesn't mean you're secure. Compliance keeps you out of jail. Security keeps you out of the news.

Two of the big areas of concern around the consumerization of IT and BYOD are security and compliance. Whenever I start talking about users being able to do whatever they want , or users bringing in their own devices , people in the audience consistently...

Published Apr 18 2013 by Brian Madden , 3,934 views, 3 comments

Rethinking network security: all your on-premises WiFi users are actually "remote" users

Last week I spoke at TechTarget's Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference in New York City. My topic was about the Consumerization of IT, specifically ten things you can do to start to address consumerization in your organization. One of my ten things...

Published Apr 15 2013 by Brian Madden , 4,906 views, 6 comments

Citrix canceled Synergy in Europe, so you should come to BriForum 2013 London instead! 16-17 May.

By now you've probably seen that Citrix has canceled their Synergy event for Europe for 2013. (It was going to be in London this year.) In a blog post announcing their new strategy, they described how they're going back to having many smaller, one-day...

Published Apr 11 2013 by Brian Madden , 4,068 views, 0 comments

Watchdox releases "Watchdox Apps," cloud-based Windows app integration with their file syncing product

Last December I wrote that WatchDox bought InstallFree and that I loved the combination of the two companies. If you're not familiar with either company, WatchDox is one of the "corporate Dropbox-like solutions" with a keen focus on DRM and document &...

Published Apr 09 2013 by Brian Madden , 4,281 views, 0 comments

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