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Quest ends the year with a bang, releases vWorkspace 7

The last Friday before Christmas should be filled with shopping malls and last-minute grabbing at shiny things that I can only hope will make my wife happy (just kidding, honey, you're awesome!), but for me, it was spent downloading Quest's vWorkspace...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2009 12:01 AM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: VDI, Industry Buzz, quest, display protocols, Remote Protocols, RDP, vWorkspace

Some recent comments around Client Virtualization, View, XenDesktop, Remote Protocols,etc… now that VMworld 2009 has been and gone

The best piece I have read from the IT Industry in the last two weeks or so is: Why desktop virtualization projects fail Desktop virtualization is one of the hottest topics of interest and a major initiative of many companies. Touted benefits include...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2009 9:54 PM by TechAgility

Filed under: VDI, VMware, Citrix, Hardware, Thin Clients, Remote Protocols, Blades, Virtualization, XenServer, XenApp

Server 2008 R2 – Trying to deliver "Pooled Virtual Desktops"??? Is there something I’ve missed? ;-)

Hi All, I have created a number of HyperV Servers that all have at least 1 instance of a Windows 7 VM running – and yet it seems that the Admin Tool from MS is *very* restricted in that there is no way to *pick* the VM’s up? They have to be auto-recognised...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 4:57 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Microsoft, VDI, Thin Clients, Remote Protocols, Virtualization

Citrix “announces” HDX-3D on ahead of VMworld, but no sign of a download or trial yet?

So it’s hardly a surprise that Citrix have decided to “Announce” the long awaited HDX-3D “high quality user experience” protocol enhancement in the early hours prior to the start of the VMworld conference? Pardon me for being something of a sceptic, but...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 9:08 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Microsoft, VDI, VMware, Performance, Citrix, Thin Clients, Remote Protocols, Networks, Windows 7, XPe

Say "Hello" to Wyse PocketCloud, a VMware View and RDP 6 client for the iPhone/iPod Touch

Last week, Wyse announced their PocketCloud iPhone application to much fanfare around the web and on Twitter . PocketCloud is an RDP 6 client for iPhone/iPod Touch with one very important feature - VMware View 3.1 support. The app, which is simply called...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 4:07 AM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: VDI, vmware, VMware View 3, Remote Protocols, RDP, Wyse

How to install Remote Desktop Services in Win 2008 R2 with Screenshots

So I noticed some good info coming out of the MSDN Terminal Server blog, like:Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager and I was reasonably curious if the RDS Brokering would allow you to attach or add Physical devices like BladePC’s or BladeWS...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 8:29 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Microsoft, VDI, Hacking, Remote Protocols, Blades, Windows 7, Virtualization

Planning a Desktop Virtualization project? – it might be worth making sure you investigate if the Business needs a Remote Protocol that can deliver a “High Quality User Experience”? Is RDP7 up to it?

So just as we headed in to the weekend I noted Brian Madden’s post – Microsoft’s RDP host-side rendering (Calista) plans include optional GPU offload hardware & custom chips. (Oh, and Hyper-V is required!) as well as Alessandro’s post Is Microsoft...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2009 7:08 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Microsoft, VDI, Performance, Citrix, Thin Clients, HP/Neoware, Remote Protocols, Networks, Windows 7, Virtualization

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 Thu, Jun 06 2009 12:00 AM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: VDI, Remote Protocols, VDIworks

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 Thu, Jun 06 2009 12:00 AM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: Citrix, Performance, qumranet, spice, Microsoft, display protocols, Remote Protocols, RDP, ICA

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 Mon, Apr 04 2009 1:10 PM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: The Future, vmware, Remote Protocols, Net2Display

“MIS Financial Review” taking copyright protection too far? So far that no-one can read your web pages – surely this is ridiculous?

So how is this, these guys use a system that I guess effectively makes it impossible(?) to copy their text from the web page – but in doing this you can’t even read the article…… Caveat: I am now using Windows 7 Beta on my day-to-day Laptop and as such...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2009 10:00 PM by TechAgility

Filed under: Security, Finance and Business, Remote Protocols, Browsers

Installing Altiris DS or HP’s Rapid Deployment Pack and having issues with getting PXE working – hopefully this info might help?

A colleague of mine was after some info on a tool that I had mentioned before and while I was at it I had some extra tools and links and other handy stuff that I thought I’d share? The details regarding Fixed Mode below have proven to be very useful today...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 5:16 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Hardware, HP/Neoware, Security, Remote Protocols, Networks, Blades

Can VDI be delivered via a cheap OS Virtualization mechanism that might beat the mature Hypervisors on both price AND graphics performance?

Well thanks to an article by Alessandro at virtualization.info I have become aware of a company called iCore Software that appear to be heading down the virtualization path similar to Parallels in that it is OS based Virtualization. iCore brings OS virtualization...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 9:57 PM by TechAgility

Filed under: Microsoft, VDI, VMware, Performance, Citrix, Hardware, Thin Clients, Remote Protocols, Blades, Virtualization

Thinking of a Remote Computing Solution based on Citrix/VDI/BladePC’s? Make sure your Network is up to the task, or you might have curious issues?

Recently I found myself at a school down near Melbourne carrying out what should have been a relatively simple PoC (Proof of Concept) of 20 x BC2500 BladePC’s in an Enclosure with some T5730 Thin Clients, and initially all went pretty well and then I...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 5:41 AM by TechAgility

Filed under: Performance, Citrix, Troubleshooting, Hardware, Remote Protocols, Networks, Blades