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Understanding how storage design has a big impact on your VDI!

Introduction Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is hot. It’s cool, secure, centrally managed, flexible--it’s an IT manager’s dream. VDI comes in two flavors: Server-Hosted VDI (centralized, single-user remote vDesktop solution)...

Published Dec 10 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 10,137 views, 23 comments

2010: the year of choices?!

The adoption of Application Virtualization, Server-hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the availability of Microsoft Windows 7 creates a lot of interesting and useful possibilities in the area of Application and Desktop Delivery (ADD). Multiple...

Published Oct 20 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 3,287 views, 11 comments

BriForum 2009 Smackdown!

Past week was one of the most interesting weeks of the year! BriForum 2009 is the Application and Desktop delivery event with no-nonsense presentations, great presenters and cool vendors. More than 405 attendees (vendors included) where at the venue....

Published Jul 28 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 2,339 views, 0 comments

Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -

The whitepaper, Application Virtualization Solution Overview and Feature Compare matrix , will provide new and updated information about the various Application- and Desktop Delivery solutions, Application Virtualization in general and the main Application...

Published Jun 28 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 7,624 views, 5 comments

Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes 2.0 (UPDATED)

Last year I created a blog entry " Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes ". Together with this blog entry a graphical diagram of all the different delivery concepts was created as well. The Application...

Published Jun 13 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 6,577 views, 5 comments

Project Virtual Reality Check's VMware ESX white paper: UPDATED

A few months ago, Project "Virtual Reality Check" (VRC) released four whitepapers. These whitepapers cover Citrix XenServer 5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0, VMware ESX 3.5 and bare metal platforms running Windows Server 2003/2008 x86 and x64 Terminal...

Published Jun 04 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 3,725 views, 3 comments

Understanding all data and system availability solutions in 30 minutes: IT made easy!

While storage solutions and virtualization can often become a goal in themselves, in respect to availability, it’s not a simple task to design a datacenter availability solution. All aspects of the datacenter influence one another. To position the...

Published Mar 18 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 4,234 views, 1 comment

Virtualization: a Beginner's Guide - New Book

Virtualization: a Beginner's Guide, is a new book released February 2009. I know how much it can take to write a book on my own, and today this doesn't fit in my business and private schedule. Working together with Chris Wolf and Duncan Epping...

Published Mar 07 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 3,948 views, 0 comments

Project VRC at VMworld Europe 2009

This past February 24-26th, I was at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France. Our Project Virtual Reality Check presentation was really great and with 200 people in the audience, during lunch, a good session. Our presentation contained: Test platform and...

Published Mar 07 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,930 views, 1 comment

Head-to-head performance analysis of App-V, SVS, ThinApp and XenApp

XPnet created a whitepaper which analyze and describes the performance characteristics of Altiris SVS Pro, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V and VMware ThinApp. Although the tested application set is limited it still gives a nice view of the performance...

Published Feb 05 2009 by Ruben Spruijt , 10,874 views, 18 comments

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