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Choosing the right App-V delivery model

Organizations who move towards Microsoft Application Virtualization often wonder what the best delivery infrastructure is for their environment. In the days of SoftGrid there was only one way of delivering your virtual applications to the end-user: you...

Published Feb 19 2010 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 2,626 views, 2 comments

Out now: New VRC paper "TS on next-gen hypervisors and hardware"

Wow, this took a little longer than expected. No.. actually this actually took a lot longer. Ruben Spruijt and I can finally announce the official release of the Project VRC Phase II white paper. This is the biggest release so far and is now available...

Published Feb 16 2010 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 2,026 views, 5 comments

"A fool with a tool is still a fool"--words of wisdom in IT

When you've been building desktop and application virtualization solutions for so many years, you have to be blind not to spot the typical patterns which re-occur in almost every project. Actually, it's fun to identify them when you talk to your...

Published Jan 25 2010 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 2,641 views, 13 comments

New Free App-V Self Support Tool (and how to make friends at the helpdesk)

When you deploy App-V applications on laptops and pc's, expect a lot of helpdesk calls. While App-V is a mature application virtualization solution, it is interesting to see that a simple design decision does actually not make a lot of sense…...

Published Jan 19 2010 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 3,317 views, 0 comments

Best practices for virtualizing terminal servers, from Project VRC Phase 2

Ruben and I are getting close to the release of the Project VRC phase 2 white paper. (Here's a primer on Project VRC if you haven't heard of it.) Although we've been discussing and presenting the best practices from the first paper around...

Published Jan 09 2010 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 4,103 views, 10 comments

The fundamental flaws of thin clients

Sorry, I have to get this of my chest. As you might suspect after reading the not-so-subtle title, there is something fundamentally wrong with thin clients. Let me be specific here: I am NOT talking about good old trusty SBC (Terminal Server/XenApp) or...

Published Oct 28 2009 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 8,341 views, 39 comments

New Project VRC Whitepaper: "VRC, VSI and Clocks Reviewed"

Ruben and I just released a new Project VRC whitepaper called “VRC, VSI and Clock reviewed”. The content of this whitepapers is quite academic, but very relevant to Project VRC. We describe in detail the things we have learned, and how we...

Published Sep 14 2009 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 1,486 views, 2 comments

VSI 2.0 Beta 3 now public

We have been working on VSI 2.0 the whole summer. Login VSI 2.0 is the second iteration of Login VSI 1.0: the free and specifically designed benchmark for SBC and VDI environments. VSI 2.0 introduces completely new workloads, and a improved and more accurate...

Published Sep 08 2009 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 2,249 views, 2 comments

"Because we can!" Distribute App-V apps via USB stick with our free new tool.

Cool, finally we released it. My colleagues Peter Nap and Rodney Medina ( www.softgridblog.com ) made the free App-v USB tool available for download. With this App-V USB Tool you can distribute your apps via USB sticks. The App-V USB Tool is an add-on...

Published Aug 27 2009 by Jeroen van de Kamp's Blog , 2,595 views, 5 comments

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