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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 , 372 views, 5 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 , 7,154 views, 31 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 , 2,410 views, 3 comments

VMware has been doing a better job with the desktop blogs lately

Last December I wrote about VMware's lack of blogging in the desktop space (which was true) and claimed that meant they didn't really care about desktops (which was debated). Since then, VMware desktop blog posts have become more frequent with...

Published Mar 04 2010 by Brian Madden , 1,993 views, 0 comments

Is Hyatt hotels Citrix’s newest competitor?

In-person meetings versus virtual meetings. Huge industries behind both. Who will win?

Published Mar 03 2010 by Brian Madden , 2,434 views, 4 comments

Hey! Neocleus has a strategy now! (Plans to OEM their client hypervisor to others. First is BigFix.)

Neocleus (along with Virtual Computer) is one of two startup companies shipping client hypervisors today. We've spoken with both companies quite a bit over the past 18 months or so, but now that VMware and Citrix are getting close to shipping their...

Published Mar 03 2010 by Brian Madden , 1,901 views, 5 comments

Confirmed: VMware buys every part of RTO Software except what they owe Citrix. Here's our full analysis.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the fact that Symantec had suddenly stopped selling their Workspace Profiles product which they OEM'ed from RTO Software. I wondered why this was, and suggested that perhaps it was because Symantec competitor...

Published Feb 24 2010 by Brian Madden , 6,373 views, 22 comments

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