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Project VRC's State of the Industry survey results: 32% of VDI is stateless, and over 50% of companies don't use third party UEM. These results and more!

Last year, Project VRC invited people around the world complete an extensive survey that asked them to describe their desktop virtualization environment. 662 people took part in the survey, and since it closed, Project VRC has been busy making sense of...

Gabe Knuth on March 14, 2013 : 7 comments , 10,051 views

All the session videos from BriForum 2012 are now available to everyone, for free!

BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago . Registration for London is currently open , and the price to attend the two day show is currently £795 through March 28, after...

Gabe Knuth on March 13, 2013 : 1 comments , 3,984 views

VDI Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix VIAB, Dell vWorkspace, Microsoft Windows8/Server2012 and VMware View 5.2 + more - UPDATED MAY 2013

Are you looking for an independent overview of desktop virtualization solutions and curious about the different strategy questions? Do you want detailed information about the features and functions each desktop virtualization vendor is offering!? If so...

Ruben Spruijt on March 10, 2013 : 0 comments , 12,301 views

To make a true BYOC play, VMware needs centralized management of Fusion and Workstation

A few weeks ago I wrote about Horizon Suite and about how Horizon Mirage comes with a license to use VMware Fusion Pro to address BYOC situations. In that article I lamented the fact that Fusion Pro was a Mac solution. Someone from VMware reached out...

Gabe Knuth on March 08, 2013 : 7 comments , 3,632 views

Part One: My Shameful Mobility Secret Revealed

About two weeks ago, this lowly consumerization reporter – one that happens to cover enterprise mobility for a living – finally upgraded from an LG Cosmos dumbphone to an iPhone 4S. It's not my first trip to the smartphone rodeo, having...

Guest Bloggers on March 07, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,082 views

You can't solve BYOD because it's not a problem

Not a week goes by that I don't receive a press release or read a news article about some new product or other that "solves BYOD." Vendors and customers that look at BYOD as a problem to solve, and not an opportunity to take advantage of, are missing...

Guest Bloggers on March 07, 2013 : 14 comments , 7,612 views

Announcing the 2013 BriForum London and Chicago sessions!

BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago . Registration for London is currently open , and the price to attend the two day show is currently £795 through March 28, after...

Gabe Knuth on March 06, 2013 : 1 comments , 3,960 views

Riverbed releases Granite for VMware View. Brilliant or lame?

You may remember Riverbed's "Granite" product from last year which uses WAN optimization and disk smarts to project storage across the WAN. (So essentially you have a branch office server which thinks its storage is local, but it's actually in the central...

Brian Madden on March 05, 2013 : 6 comments , 5,087 views

Could Samsung SAFE and KNOX lead to MAM that makes Android phones as secure as Blackberrys?

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung made news in the enterprise mobility management space by announcing KNOX , a dual-persona framework for Android devices. And by now you’ve probably noticed all of the ads for Samsung SAFE...

Jack Madden on March 04, 2013 : 3 comments , 5,702 views

Ok, I'm over Android thin clients, but Windows RT thin clients just might work!

As noted below by Martin Sheppard, what follows is not actually feasible . The only way you get the ability to access a VDI desktop is if the Windows RT device is a companion to a device that already has SA. So yes, this would work, as long as they had...

Gabe Knuth on March 01, 2013 : 8 comments , 4,959 views

Think users will blindly agree to MAM? Think again!

Mobile application management isn’t a cure-all for the problem of controlling corporate assets on personal devices. Users will still need a good deal of convincing and persuading -- or, if you prefer a gentler term, “education.” During...

Guest Bloggers on February 28, 2013 : 9 comments , 3,285 views

VMware clarifies my "facts." It's not that they're saying not to use Mirage with View, they're just saying it's not supported.

From the, "Well I'm glad we got that cleared up" department, I've received multiple calls and emails about my article from yesterday called " VMware's recommendation to manage physical and virtual desktops differently is WRONG ." When I visited VMware...

Brian Madden on February 26, 2013 : 3 comments , 4,788 views

Atlantis Computing adds persistent support to their ILIO Diskless VDI. This is the ultimate VDI storage solution!

Last September Atlantis Computing released a product called "ILIO Diskless VDI." I wrote about it on BrianMadden.com then , and Gabe and I gave it the " Best of VMworld 2012 " award in the desktop virtualization category. If you're not familiar with ILIO...

Brian Madden on February 26, 2013 : 13 comments , 10,512 views

VMware's recommendation to manage physical and virtual desktops differently is WRONG

One of the big things that came out of last week's Horizon Suite announcement from VMware was that they are recommending different management strategies for physical desktops versus VDI desktops. For physical desktops, VMware now offers Horizon Mirage...

Brian Madden on February 25, 2013 : 20 comments , 7,256 views

UPDATED: Mobile World Congress 2013 is kicking off with some big enterprise mobility management announcements

Mobile World Congress is starting today in Barcelona, and already there have been major enterprise mobility management announcements from Samsung, Airwatch, and Red Bend. Let’s look at each one of these: (UPDATE 2/25/13 10:00AM PST: More announcements...

Jack Madden on February 25, 2013 : 0 comments , 4,671 views

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