Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - February 2012 - Michel Roth Michel Roth

How To Assess the Cost of Implementing VDI

This post by former Kaviza VP Krishna will outline how to scope and assess VDI projects, so that initial costs are included, as well as what will be needed to help users scale, provide high availability, and manage the system. In selecting a VDI solution...

Published Feb 29 2012 by Michel Roth , 404 views, 0 comments

CONTROLUP Review

This review will take a look at some of Control-Up features. Control-Up is a ‘Citrix Resource Manager’ kind of replacement but more. The first thing that is pretty remarkable is the installation process, because actually there isn't one. The product...

Published Feb 28 2012 by Michel Roth , 527 views, 0 comments

Ins and Outs of IOPS

In this white paper "Ins and Outs of IOPS", VKernel (now part of Quest) Senior Systems Engineer Brad Bonn discusses the strengths and weaknesses of using IOPS as a measure of storage performance. In Brad's experience, disk performance seems...

Published Feb 28 2012 by Michel Roth , 345 views, 0 comments

Wyse Announces Mobile Cloud Service Offering, Gives Users Simple and Secure Access to Content and Applications Anytime, Anywhere

As a result of their Trellia acquisition, Wyse announced a product family that redefines content management from the cloud to include both content and apps on one’s own devices and in the public cloud. The Wyse vision is to enable users to enroll any...

Published Feb 27 2012 by Michel Roth , 390 views, 0 comments

Microsoft RemoteFX USB redirection: Four key considerations

Microsoft's RemoteFX USB redirection feature provides much-desired native USB support, but there are a number of considerations to take into account with USB redirection, including some limitations. One of the biggest knocks against Microsoft Hyper...

Published Feb 27 2012 by Michel Roth , 395 views, 0 comments

OCZ Revolutionizes Storage in VMware and Citrix Environments With Launch of VXL Storage Accelerator

You might only know OCZ from the consumer space but they now also have entered the realm of desktop virtualization storage acceleration. OCZ Technology today announced the immediate availability of the OCZ-SANRAD VXL enterprise storage accelerator, delivering...

Published Feb 24 2012 by Michel Roth , 412 views, 0 comments

vWorkspace 7.5 Feature Spotlight: Hyper-V Host Maintenance

In this post I want to discuss how to manage and maintain one or more Hyper-V hosts that are within a vWorkspace 7.5 Farm. Depending on how you personally manage the deployment of the virtual desktops, desktop groups storage etc. there are many...

Published Feb 23 2012 by Michel Roth , 496 views, 1 comment

Troubleshooting VMware View 5 – Part 1

This post tackles the most common failure points in VMware View 5 and talk about the best ways to troubleshoot them when issues arise. You can learn a lot in the process. The failure points we’ll review include: Network connectivity failure between client...

Published Feb 23 2012 by Michel Roth , 446 views, 0 comments

vWorkspace 7.5′s HyperCache is cool but?

Quest thinks HyperCache rocks.BrianMadden.com thinks it is great too but there might be a but - look at that but … A few weeks ago, Quest released vWorkspace 7.5, which is a pretty massive update for only being a half-release. In the release, they rewrote...

Published Feb 22 2012 by Michel Roth , 436 views, 0 comments

Thin client performance benchmarks

Devon IT and Wyse Technologies both started the year with announcements of thin clients that have been awarded Microsoft RemoteFX logo certification. Last week, it was IGEL Technologies turn, and now today HP is joining the RemoteFX certification club...

Published Feb 22 2012 by Michel Roth , 463 views, 0 comments

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