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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...

Brian Madden on July 02, 2009 : 6 comments , 1,659 views

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...

Brian Madden on July 01, 2009 : 13 comments , 1,655 views

Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -

The whitepaper, Application Virtualization Solution Overview and Feature Compare matrix , will provide new and updated information about the various Application- and Desktop Delivery solutions, Application Virtualization in general and the main Application...

Ruben Spruijt on June 28, 2009 : 3 comments , 1,917 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 26, 2009 : 10 comments , 2,020 views

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,...

Brian Madden on June 24, 2009 : 13 comments , 2,911 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 23, 2009 : 20 comments , 2,727 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 22, 2009 : 5 comments , 4,200 views

Early-bird registration for BriForum ends today!

Just a quick note to let you all know that today is the last day that members of BrianMadden.com can receive the special $300 discount off the registration fee for BriForum . If you're not already a registered user, you can sign up today and still...

Gabe Knuth on June 19, 2009 : 0 comments , 528 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 19, 2009 : 7 comments , 1,769 views

VDIworks releases new VDI remote desktop connection protocol. Yawn or Yay?

This week, VDIworks launched a new connection protocol called VideoOverIP (VOIP? Taken. How about V/IP?) that purports to "drastically improve the user experience delivered in a hosted virtual desktop model." And while this isn't the first...

Gabe Knuth on June 18, 2009 : 5 comments , 1,734 views

RedHat SPICE vs RDP vs ICA performance video

I realized as I was writing today's VDIworks article that we never published the performance videos that we recorded last year when we visited Qumranet's (now Red Hat's) offices in the Bay Area. The information we got is very interesting,...

Gabe Knuth on June 18, 2009 : 7 comments , 2,718 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 16, 2009 : 5 comments , 2,407 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 16, 2009 : 7 comments , 3,126 views

Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes 2.0 (UPDATED)

Last year I created a blog entry " Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes ". Together with this blog entry a graphical diagram of all the different delivery concepts was created as well. The Application...

Ruben Spruijt on June 13, 2009 : 3 comments , 3,083 views

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...

Brian Madden on June 11, 2009 : 8 comments , 1,646 views

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