Brian Madden TV - All Comments

re: Forums not fast enough for free desktop virtualization support? Check out CitrixIRC for free, live support.

Jim Moyle — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:07:03 GMT

The channel is really useful, I'm just sorry I can't spend more time there.

re: Forums not fast enough for free desktop virtualization support? Check out CitrixIRC for free, live support.

tabularasa138 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:11:47 GMT

Thanks for your time, Gabe. I appreciate it! The web client has a direct link at http://join.citrixirc.com. Users who already have an IRC client can simply join #Citrix on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).

Come on in and join the discussions!

re: Brian Madden TV #37 - Citrix Synergy 2011 wrap-up

Mads Soerensen — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:58:50 GMT

Sad to hear that you won't join us in Barcelona, so non of you will have any sessions there??

/Mads

re: Brian Madden TV #35: MMS 2011 Roundup - SCCM, RES, App-DNA, & Gabe's Bitchin' View

melinda2 — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:50:55 GMT

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re: Brian Madden TV #35: MMS 2011 Roundup - SCCM, RES, App-DNA, & Gabe's Bitchin' View

melinda2 — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:56:05 GMT

Very nice topic I appriciate about your post. You are right I agree with you google seem to be living up to their commitments to protecting the wired Internet as promised.

re: Brian Madden TV #36 - Android thin clients, Xangati, and the "real" reasons people use desktop virtualization

Craig Arnold — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:48:24 GMT

Love it!

re: Brian Madden TV #36 - Android thin clients, Xangati, and the "real" reasons people use desktop virtualization

Tom Calo — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:17:07 GMT

When I watch the Xangati interview I keep forgetting he's talking to a puppet.

re: Brian Madden TV #36 - Android thin clients, Xangati, and the "real" reasons people use desktop virtualization

Ron Kuper — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:50:03 GMT

Totally liked!

I actually prefer it this way! :-)

re: Brian Madden TV #36 - Android thin clients, Xangati, and the "real" reasons people use desktop virtualization

Daniel Bolton — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:41:11 GMT

LMAO! :)

re: Brian Madden TV #34 - RemoteFX super show, plus VMware's View iPad client

pauloeo — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:25:22 GMT

Citrix XenDesktop - Using an iPad/Iphone/Samsung Galaxy/PC to connect to your Work Desktop

www.youtube.com/watch

re: Brian Madden TV #34 - RemoteFX super show, plus VMware's View iPad client

vgernyc — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:22:16 GMT

Maybe others who I noticed also tested out RemoteFX can verify this but I've noticed a GPU does give a boost to a Remote Session Host.

Without a GPU my Dell PowerEdge R710's do RemoteFX but it's as if it's a more standard definition experience where with a GPU it's a more HD experience. Early on I stuck a Nvidia Geforce GT240 and it also seemed to enhance RemoteFX (though I am just one user...I later looked into a FirePro v5800 too). I've also noticed despite documentation Direct 3D is more exposed in Remote Session Host (run DxDiag in your Session Host). Granted probably can't play 3D games in there (I haven't really really tried but did run into limited success). I did definitly get productivity 3D apps to work (Google Earth, Comsol, ArcGIS).

However it's poorly documented that XenApp 6 and to a lesser extent XenApp 5 on 2008 do tap into a GPU. I forgot if XenApp 6.0 on its own exposed Direct 3D before SP1

Has anyone else noticed this and been able to see how this scales with a GPU???

re: Brian Madden TV #33 - Funtroversy, HDX Connect, Xiotech, AppSense, & BriForum London

appdetective — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:25:55 GMT

@A.Nikolic Very well stated. Distinct models offering totally different economics in the data center mean it's not the same thing. Brian respectfully is wrong trying to blend them as they are not the same thing. They overlap for sure but trying to merge the two as a single solution is why so many people are confused as is so clear from the naive comments and idiots in the press like Bruce Hoard of virtualizationreview who have no clue and simply eco marketing statements from vendors as opposed to explaining what's going on. While Gartner screwed up with the use of the quote their definition of hosted virtual desktop as a single word but them breaking own the various solutions as SBC etc are correct and accurate. People need to understand these basic 101 tenants of our industry or we continue to have mass confusion and vendor fud echoed by idiot journalists.

HDX Connect as is, I will conclude as a poor start, but I am hoping Citrix is listening to fix it moving forward. The leased broker thing is a good direction and i've commented more on the HDX Connect main thread. One major point I will add why it is still needed is migration. Citrix for years has done a $hit job of enabling mixed farms. so every upgrade is a full replacement and retiring old infrastructure. If you do that with desktops at scale two things happen. First at current scale, lot's more farms/sites will appear and upgrading those is going to be a F'ing nightmare. Hence I just want to be able to connect amongst all the other reasons I have posted as well as others over the years and on the current HDX connect blog.

@Brian/Gabe, it would be really cool if you could squeeze the you know what of the big storage vendors and asked them what they are doing for desktops. Right now everything they offer is expensive and they think and price like server based solutions. If they do nothing, aren't they dead if they do nothing to get the economics of the desktop workload down. Won't they just end up buying these small guys and offer a new type of solution hoping to make money of the revenue? It would a great show Brian/Gabe.

RemoteFX. Please find out if it will be real on the WAN and when. If WAN is useless then RemoteFX means nothing. Also why Hyper-V only? Technical or business strategy? Timing is key here. Window XP is going end of life in a few years. If RemoteFX is not going to be WAN ready by then, it's useless for 99% of hosted desktop deployment (note naive folks, that's SBC plus VDI). If that is indeed the case, that says to me MS you are not serious about HVD (hosted desktop virt). If MS says it will ready for Wan by Win 8, punch them in the face for me please. Also ask them their thoughts on HDX and why they think client side redirection can't evolve to give better performance than RemoteFX and work work well over a WAN.

Appsense and user virtualiztion. I have some thoughts here. Perhaps I need to write a short blog this weekend and start a discussion as I think this space will be become increasingly important. Hmmmmm must try to make time that I have so little of :-(

re: Brian Madden TV #33 - Funtroversy, HDX Connect, Xiotech, AppSense, & BriForum London

A.Nikolic — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:29:37 GMT

01:05 The fact alone that there is a huge difference in TCO costs between SBC (tradtional RDS) en VDI (VMware View,Citrix XD) shows people how wrong it is to say that vdi=sbc.

I understand and agree with your thoughts from a technical perspective but it gives vendors a chance to confuse people with TCO savings amongst other things.

So Brian, no more of this BS that VDI=SBC :)

re: Brian Madden TV #32 - CES coverage, Motorola Atrix, and a conversation with Jim Moyle

Steve Greenberg — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:35:13 GMT

I am diggin' the BriBeard

re: Brian Madden TV #32 - CES coverage, Motorola Atrix, and a conversation with Jim Moyle

edgeseeker — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:16:38 GMT

What's with Brian's Mountain Man look? Or is it the Caveman look? VDI is so easy even a caveman can do it?