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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...

Brian Madden on April 25, 2013 : 0 comments , 2,847 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: All About Mobility: Device, Data, and Application Management for Corporate and Personal Devices

Thanks to the consumerization of IT, the world of enterprise mobility management has gone through huge changes within the last five years. Some issues have been solved—thanks to the opening of management APIs in mobile operating systems, iOS and...

Videos on April 25, 2013 : 0 comments , 2,351 views

The delta between work capabilities and consumer capabilities is where "FUIT" happens. Luckily we're past that now!

Over the last few months, I’ve been thinking about a lot of different ways to explain the consumerization of IT (because I've been speaking at TechTarget's consumerization events and writing a book !) The realization that I had was that while we...

Jack Madden on April 24, 2013 : 5 comments , 3,291 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: What Two Years of Living in the Trenches has Taught Kevin Goodman about VDI

The no-holds-barred session about what Kevin Goodman hates about VDI and why he thinks it is only useful in particular use cases. BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago ....

Videos on April 23, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,259 views

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...

Brian Madden on April 22, 2013 : 9 comments , 4,667 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: Demystifying Microsoft Licensing for Client Virtualisation Environments

This session will provide an in-depth view of how to license Microsoft products while utilizing client virtualization technologies. With the continued focus on virtualizing the entire data center, migrating client technologies into the data center, disaster...

Videos on April 22, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,515 views

XP Paid Support: US$1 Million for 5,000 desktops for first year. Seems astronomically high, but if you need it, is it really?

We're now under one year to go until the end of life date for Windows XP , which Brian wrote about a few weeks ago. The relatively short article opened up a flood of comments talking about whether or not there are elevated security risks for running XP...

Gabe Knuth on April 19, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,048 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: How to Fail at VDI

In this "tongue-in-cheek" session, Dan Brinkmann will talk about the ways VDI projects fail, ultimately discussing what you need to do to ensure success. Many organizations often say they want to do desktop virtualization, but have no business problem...

Videos on April 19, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,378 views

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...

Brian Madden on April 18, 2013 : 3 comments , 3,949 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: Demonstration Gone Wild: A Deep Look at Windows 8

In this awesome demo, demo, demo session, Ruben Spruijt, CTO @ PQR, will show the latest developments around Windows 8: Windows Client 8 and desktop virtualization with RDSH and RDVH, RemoteFX, Windows Server 8 with Hyper-V and SCVMM2012, Touch and MetroUI...

Videos on April 18, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,111 views

ShareFile doesn't (fully) work on XenApp? Now Citrix is making apps that "don't work on Citrix?"

A few weeks ago I was in Phoenix having lunch with (non-tweeting) Hal Lange and Joe Shonk of Thin Client Computing , and over a meat loaf sandwich (which I assume is native Phoenix food), I listened to their stories from the trenches. One such story was...

Gabe Knuth on April 17, 2013 : 12 comments , 5,775 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: Top 13 Ways Microsoft Uses Caching to Increase Performance

Based on the book of the same name (to be released in spring 2012), this session will be a dive into understanding one particular technique to improve system performance: caching. Microsoft OS--whether desktop or server, physical or virtual --uses caching...

Videos on April 17, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,754 views

Symantec is rolling out improvements to its enterprise mobility management offerings

Over the last year Symantec has been making a big move into the enterprise mobility management (EMM) space. Today they’re continuing that effort by announcing several new EMM improvements at Symantec Vision in Las Vegas. In advance of today’s...

Jack Madden on April 16, 2013 : 1 comments , 6,333 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: The Future of the Enterprise Desktop

Even though we have all these cutting-edge desktop virtualization technologies, it seems that the "desktop" of today is really not that different than the desktop we've been providing for the past 20 years. Sure, we can remote it or stream it or virtualize...

Videos on April 16, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,717 views

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...

Brian Madden on April 15, 2013 : 6 comments , 4,924 views

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