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Published Jun 19 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 528 views, 0 comments

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...

Published Jun 18 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 1,739 views, 5 comments

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,...

Published Jun 18 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 2,724 views, 7 comments

Why do we need "Software" client hypervisors?

For at the past few years, I've talked about how I think that platform hypervisors are going to move towards the hardware in the future, leaving the current market players sitting not on their own hypervisors, but on a suite of tools to manage/extend...

Published Jun 03 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 2,188 views, 6 comments

VMware announces vSphere - the foundation for the next generation data center

Yesterday, VMware announced vSphere 4 - the successor to VI 3.5, and its association with vCloud - a relatively new initiative to provide local, private cloud computing environments in combination with third-party external cloud providers in an effort...

Published Apr 22 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 3,049 views, 6 comments

Gartner predicts $65.7 billion in VDI revenue and 49 million users in 2013

"Wowsers!" That's what Brian said to me when he forwarded me a link to an article about a recent Gartner report. The article reports on what Gartner expects the "Hosted Virtual Desktop" (that's Gartner's term for VDI, but...

Published Apr 15 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 3,190 views, 15 comments

Is Net2Display dead or just dying?

I was thinking about remote protocols today after reading about the funding that Teradici received , and it occurred to me that we haven't heard anything about Net2Display lately. Net2Display (link goes to article from 2007), a projected open standard...

Published Apr 13 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 1,724 views, 7 comments

Who's using the Citrix Branch Repeater?

It's not meant to be a condescending question, "Who's using the Citrix Branch Repeater?" I really just want to know who's got it and how they use it. Since I first heard about the device sometime last year (or was it the year before...

Published Apr 13 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 2,731 views, 3 comments

Cisco now sells blade servers...wait, what?

Today, Cisco announced their new Unified Computing System (UCS). UCS is a complete data center platform that incorporates network and blade servers that integrate into your existing Cisco core, as well as storage connectivity. The system can support up...

Published Mar 17 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 2,640 views, 9 comments

VMware releases open source VDI client

VMware announced this morning that they've created an open source version of the VMware View client software called the VMware View Open Client. This new client will be compatible not only with VMware View, but also VMware VDM 2.0 and 2.1. This client...

Published Feb 03 2009 by Gabe Knuth , 2,789 views, 5 comments

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