VMWare News, Information, Blogs, and Analysis, on BrianMadden.com

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Original blog posts about VMWare: 72

Microsoft announces "RemoteFX," the Calista-based Hyper-V-requiring PC-over-IP competitor. Here's our full analysis.

Today is a huge day for desktop virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix, and several other partners are announcing a slew of new things specifically related to desktop virtualization, and we'll dig deep into each of them over the next few days. There's...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 11:01 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: Display Protocols, Calista, Citrix, microsoft, VMware, RemoteFX
Citrix releases report on ICA versus PC-over-IP. VMware cries foul. Both are half-right. Here's my full analysis.

A few weeks ago, a company called Miercom released a report ( download PDF ) that was sponsored by Citrix to compare XenDesktop 4 remoting (ICA protocol) to VMware View 4 remoting via PCoIP. Then last Friday, VMware's Mike Coleman wrote blog post...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 12:00 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: PC-over-IP, Display Protocols, Citrix, HDX, ICA, VMware, VMware View, XenDesktop
VMware has been doing a better job with the desktop blogs lately

Last December I wrote about VMware's lack of blogging in the desktop space (which was true) and claimed that meant they didn't really care about desktops (which was debated). Since then, VMware desktop blog posts have become more frequent with...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 11:20 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: Business Information, VMware

Blog posts from around the web about VMWare: 63

Virtualization: desktop to datacenter

It's been a while since I've posted a blog ... but that one really caused a stir in the Virt circles in the Bay Area. Hopefully it doesn't mean I can't hit up those people for Sharks tickets. I've stumbled across some interesting items...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 5:54 PM by Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Filed under: VMM 2008, Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Management tools, System Center, virtualization management, VMWare, Application Virtualization, VDI, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Live Migration, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Asset Inventory Service
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
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I now have the final list of sessions that I will be attending at VMworld. As I noted last time I had a lot of waitlists which it now appears I have not made the cut for most of the sessions. That means I will be at our booth (#2422) almost all of today...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 9:09 AM by Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Filed under: Hyper-V, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, virtualization, virtualization management, VMWare

Forum posts tagged with VMWare: 8

vmware - blades or racks?

Hi guys, I am wondering for a small shop which way we should lean. We currently run on 2 hosts right now. We are duplicating our environment for DR and also piloting XenDesktop soon afterwards (we use XenApps right now). Potentially we could see as many as 100-200 users for XenDesktop if the pilot goes...

Posted to Virtualization + Server-Based Computing by dohkebi on Thu, Feb 25 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 Tue, Jan 5 2010
FT Cloud/Virtualization Consultant/Engineer in Omaha

Position Title: Enterprise Solutions Architect Company Description: Emineo Group is a small, growing Value Added Reseller, offering Enterprise consulting services to businesses of all sizes. We specialize in enabling cloud computing. While we offer a broad range of products and services, we focus primarily...

Posted to Job Postings by Randy Barger on Wed, Nov 11 2009