Ruben Spruijt - All Comments

re: VDI Smackdown; Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix VDI in a Box (Kaviza), Microsoft RemoteFX, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View - UPDATE February 2012

Ruben Spruijt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:16:04 GMT

@KataTank;

Thanks for feedback!

I'll double check the whitepaper, my analysis, review information and vendor feedback. It's not only about "showing that it can work" it also about delivery, VDI vendor support and bestpractices.

re: VDI Smackdown; Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix VDI in a Box (Kaviza), Microsoft RemoteFX, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View - UPDATE February 2012

Kata Tank — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:57:30 GMT

Feedback : I was last week at Citrix and yesterday at Cisco and they both showed me respectivly OCS and Cisco Unified Communication A/V in VDI desktop with Citrix XenDesktop...

re: VDI Smackdown; Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix VDI in a Box (Kaviza), Microsoft RemoteFX, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View - UPDATE February 2012

Ruben Spruijt — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:41 GMT

February 2012 - The whitepaper is updated to version 1.3;

The change log (Appendix) provides insight which information is added and which features are updated.

Enjoy reading, I hope it is useful for you!

When you have feedback please let me know.

re: UEM Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Appsense, Citrix, Immidio, Liquidware Labs, Microsoft, Quest, PolicyPak, RES, Scense, Tricerat and others - UPDATE January 2012

Ruben Spruijt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:27:05 GMT

I have updated the UEM Smackdown Q1-2012 Edition. Hope you will like the content. Feedback? let me know!

re: Desktop virtualization and the power of App-V and Windows 7

jklincewicz — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:18:30 GMT

Just got our App-V up and running today. So far, Acrobat Reader and Office 2010 are SMOKING... No perceivable difference vs. running locally on Windows 7.

re: The impact of Application Virtualization solutions in VDI, THE Reality Check

Ruben Spruijt — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:32:53 GMT

Hi TiJa,

All the test scenario's are executed more than three times.

We have executed App-V with and without compression. There was a small performance impact with compression enabled.(default is disabled).

Thanks for your positive feedback, when you have questions let us know.

Ruben

re: The impact of Application Virtualization solutions in VDI, THE Reality Check

TiJa — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:55:09 GMT

Just to be able to compare properly -- what type of compression are you using in App-V ? By disabling compression in ThinApp, you are giving it an unfair advantage -- given that compression reduces the number of simultaneous sessions from 81 to 56 for ThinApp, this impact is significant. Did you disable compression also in App-V packages as a comparison?

As also with the previous VRC papers: how many runs are you using for the numbers? With numbers so close to each other (all within ranges of a few %), it seems very hard to make any conclusions based on only a few runs!

I think this is a very interesting project, but as long as the testing methodology does not improve, some precaution should be taken with the value of conclusions drawn from the data in Project VRC...

re: Citrix XenDesktop vs VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) video

SabrinaSan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:54:18 GMT

I don't have any review about both of this. Maybe I just wait for the result of your research.

re: The impact of Application Virtualization solutions in VDI, THE Reality Check

Daniel Bolton — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:40:19 GMT

Having some sequencing trouble eh @appdetective? :)

re: The impact of Application Virtualization solutions in VDI, THE Reality Check

appdetective — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:57:12 GMT

While I like what VRC does and shares with the community, and am ok with login consultants using this as a marketing vehicle to upsell services, I have to do a little VRC reality check of my own.

"It is currently almost impossible to conceive a VDI deployment without Application Virtualization."

Come on guys, do you really believe that? You already know that the layer cake is not happening anytime soon, and most people will just default to XenApp for cost. You also know what most people just deploy VDI 1-1 using exactly the same bad/good management practices that they have today to get the benefit of centralization. You don't need application virtualization for that and in fact it just makes things more complex and expensive when the truth is you have to buy EA and MDOP from MS and App virtualization does not meet the need for all apps, so you end up with more overhead.

So good that you guys do some great work to show overhead etc, but to assert that app virt is required for VDI/desktop virtualization today is just not true.

Given your platform perhaps you could do more to highlight the BS. Ask the hard questions. i.e Why the F does MS not make App-V a free platform feature that the development community build on? Ask why Citrix and others are still in the business and have not built on top of App-V as a platform like they have for RDS? Is that because MS is a monopoly and wants to protect MDOP revenue and hence keep the system closed? Why is ThinApp important when you can't manage it? Sure run an exe from a mapped network drive is fine, but you call that an enterprise solution that is broad for the industry. May be it is, but I guess that's the consulting markup :-)

The real issue IMHO is that we are still talking about Windows apps. Did you hear that. Windows apps, i.e. running on a Microsoft operating system. I.E we are all MS B I T C H E S and they control the architecture. Toy solutions from Citrix and VMware that do unnatural things to the apps are never going to be for the masses, so please don't claim App virt is therefore strategic from these people. MS wants to protect their $$$$$ with EA and MDOP. App-V is a push from their sales organization to help with that. Nobody at MS cares about App-V as it's not a Windows platform component.

Therefore Application virtualization for the masses has already failed and I bet in 2014 when most people are on Windows 7, they still use MSI as the majority format with MS pushing Systems Center to manage it. That's the game and to marry app virtualization to desktop virtualization as a requirement is a mistake. It's an evolution that may never happen due to money concerns before customer solutions.

re: Citrix XenDesktop vs VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) video

Ada1985 — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:01:29 GMT

It just represents the readers of BrianMadden.com who chose to participate.)

re: Xtreaming Technology releases VHD CMS Professional 1.0 of its diskless OS-streaming product

bjornan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:57:03 GMT

Any news about this company and their products?

re: Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -

griddle — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:46:59 GMT

I wasn't that surprised to learn that the whitepaper is going to provide new and updated info about the applications mentioned above, and it made me want to learn more and read more news about the subject.

re: VDI Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

mike2010 — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:07:49 GMT

Great paper Ruben, appreciate this information very much. Will you be include Kavazia? I'm trying to figure out where these guys fit into the SMB vs. Enterprise space. Thanks

re: VDI Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

mike2010 — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:57:22 GMT

Awesome paper. I would love to see Kaviza compared as well - will future updates include this? Thanks Ruben!!