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We use a "tag" system for keeping track of topics on BrianMadden.com. Here's everything we have that's been tagged with "VDI". This includes forum posts, blog entries, podcasts, videos, and presentations.

Original blog posts about VDI: 232

Our Geek Week: VDI Shootout methodology (and how you can help)

The Super Bowl is over (congrats, Saints…hopefully the Browns can do that someday), and we're getting into full swing planning our VDI shootout, otherwise known as Geek Week. We've got conversations going with all of the companies involved...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 1:06 AM by Gabe Knuth

Filed under: VDI, Geek Week
Brian Madden TV #28 - Interview with Benny Tritsch, "fifth vendor" voting results, and news round-up

In this week's Brian Madden TV, Gabe and Brian discuss Array Network's forthcoming iPhone remote desktop client , Citrix's Nirvana phone hardware spec , and the situation with RTO, Symantec, and VMware. Then Brian interviews Benny Tritsch...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 11:28 AM by Brian Madden TV

Filed under: VDI, Red Hat, Immidio
Symantec suddenly stops selling Workspace Profiles. Does this mean VMware is acquiring RTO?

Last March, we learned that Symantec’s Workspace Profiles product was an OEM / rebranded edition of RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles . Then in September, we learned that VMware also signed an agreement with RTO Software for their Virtual Profiles...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 12:00 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: VDI, Profiles, RTO Software, Symantec, VMware

Blog posts from around the web about VDI: 116

Citrix releases results of 5000 concurrent session VDI scalability test

Citrix has released a description of their 5000 concurrent VDI session scalability test, and for their testing platform they chose the Login VSI from Login Consultants, which is the same methodology used in the Project Virtual Reality check, great move...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 8:22 AM by ReneVester.com

Filed under: Events, Virtualization, XenDesktop, VDI, Citrix Synergy, Citrix, Project VRC, Scalability
Shifting The Economics - The Cost Of Desktop Virtualization Just Went Down

Yes, I am saying it...the cost of desktop virtualization is finally going in the right direction! For those of you who know me from my Forrester Research days, you will know that I was a huge proponent of desktop virtualization for reasons of security...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 1:32 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xendesktop, vdi, roi, desktop_virtualization, client_virtualization, lang-eng
Ericom Case Study Featured on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Page

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Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 2:27 AM by ERICOM Guy

Filed under: PowerTerm WebConnect, Hyper-V, windows server 2008, microsoft, VDI, desktop virtualization

Forum posts tagged with VDI: 49

XenDesktop 2.0/2.1 DDC & Agent v4 Compatability?

Good afternoon I'm a newbie to this forum, and have a hopefully simple question: I have been searching on the Citrix website to try and find out if a XenDesktop v2.0 Controller with a higher version of the agent (v3 or v4) is compatible or more importantly a supported combination? We are using v2...

Posted to DDI / VDI / Desktop Delivery / Bladed PCs by waspy32 on 02-09-2010
VECD licencing workaround

A customer does not wish to enter into Microsofts subscription model that is required for VECD. At $110/user/year I can somewhat understand. The customer asked why he could not use his Windows 2008 Datacenter licenses and create a virtual desktop based on Windows 2003/2008 per user. I'm unable to...

Posted to DDI / VDI / Desktop Delivery / Bladed PCs by svendudeman on 02-02-2010
XenDesktop4 vs View4: who wins

Hey everyone, I manage a team of engineers in a large financial company responsible for bringing VDI to the company in 2010. To this end, we are devleoping a "Framework" strategy where we are breaking VDI out to its core component layers and selecting best of breed for each component. The component...

Posted to Virtualization + Server-Based Computing by VDIManagerGuy on 01-05-2010