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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 , 3,657 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 , 2,399 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 , 5,026 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 , 2,649 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 , 3,248 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 , 2,489 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 , 4,326 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 , 2,243 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 , 6,167 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 , 1,864 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 , 6,556 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 , 1,846 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 , 5,344 views

BriForum 2012 London session video: Server Performance Troubleshooting and Benchmarking: The Quick and Easy Way

Poorly performing SBC or VDI servers can never be fixed fast enough, and nothing can kill a new project faster than unacceptable performance. Few organizations are able to invest time and money into benchmarking, and the lack of proper benchmarks only...

Videos on April 15, 2013 : 0 comments , 2,187 views

NitroDesk TouchDown is the Android mail app used by many EMM vendors. Here are some cool things you might not know about it.

NitroDesk TouchDown is a third-party Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) app for Android and iOS. Because so many enterprise mobility management vendors support it and use it as their email client of choice, I wanted to learn more about it, and so recently I had...

Jack Madden on April 12, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,468 views

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