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Desktone goes back to their roots, focusing only on service providers with version 5.0

It appears that Desktone is reinventing themselves again, or at least going back to their roots. Just about a year ago, Brian wrote an article about how they'd re-tooled and are now going to sell DaaS solutions direct to businesses instead of trying to...

by Gabe Knuth on May 02, 2012 : 0 comments , 4,144 views

OnLive appears to cave to Microsoft's demands, changes DaaS offering to Server 2008 instead of Windows 7

By now you're all familiar with the story of OnLive's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering where they appear to flagrantly break Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing model. (If you're not caught up, check out this and this .) Over the weekend, the OnLive enthusiasts...

by Brian Madden on April 09, 2012 : 12 comments , 9,030 views

Gasp! Turns out OnLive really isn't in compliance with Microsoft licensing!

From the " News we already knew, in spite of the fact that nobody would confirm it " department, we have an update on the OnLive Desktop and Desktop Plus offerings that have drawn the attention of a large number of industry experts and analysts over the...

by Gabe Knuth on March 09, 2012 : 15 comments , 6,177 views

No SPLA license for Win 7 means that DaaS providers can't provide desktops to small companies. This is getting ridiculous.

We briefly touched on the subject of "very small business" VDI during Brian & Gabe Live this past Tuesday with guest Cláudio Rodrigues. The topic came about based on an email that Cláudio sent my way that outlined a recent VDI deployment...

by Gabe Knuth on February 24, 2012 : 10 comments , 9,447 views

OnLive loose ends: Are they using VMware? Dedicated hardware? Custom licensing? Plus, are they on Microsoft's acquisition radar?

Last week, I posted an article that breaks down my thoughts on OnLive Desktop , the desktop virtualization solution offered by cloud gaming provider OnLive . In the article and in the comments, we tried to figure out exactly how OnLive can deploy Windows...

by Gabe Knuth on February 03, 2012 : 7 comments , 5,539 views

Will desktops ever move to the cloud? Newsflash: Mine is already is a cloud desktop. And so is yours.

When thinking of the term "cloud desktop," most people immediately think of either (1) a Desktop-as-a-Service remote protocol-based VDI-like solution (Desktone, dinCloud etc.), or (2) one of the pure browser-based desktop environments like the Google...

by Brian Madden on January 18, 2012 : 8 comments , 6,493 views

Are we seeing a resurgence (or just a surge) in cloud-based SaaS desktops?

We've discussed third-party hosted cloud-based desktops-as-a-service quite a bit in the past. My general consensus has been that while they make sense in certain cases, the logistical and technical limitations mean that third-party hosted desktops will...

by Brian Madden on June 20, 2011 : 7 comments , 6,085 views

What does Microsoft Azure have to do with us? Hint: not much today.

By now you're surely aware of the [relatively] huge announcements Microsoft made last month about their new Azure platform . Basically Microsoft is buying hundreds of thousands of Dell servers that they will run themselves. They also wrote their own...

by Brian Madden on November 17, 2008 : 2 comments , 5,208 views

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