Desktop virtualization is the separation of the "physical" from the "logical." When it comes to desktops, a lot of people think of "VDI." While it's true that VDI is one type of desktop virtualization, it's only one type. The phrase "dekstop virtualization" could also refer to Remote Desktop, Client Hypervisors, or even OS streaming.
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Citrix Synergy 2013 is taking place in Los Angeles this week. One of the most talked-about demos from the opening keynote was from NVIDIA where they showed GPU-powered Windows desktop applications delivered via HDX, including live photo editing, video...
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At Citrix Synergy 2013, Gabe Knuth interviewed Will Wade from NVIDIA about how NVIDIA's GRID GPU cards can be used with Citrix XenDesktop. Check out the main article I wrote on NVIDIA at Synergy for more details. Topics covered included: Dedicated pass...
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At Citrix Synergy 2013 in LA this week, Gabe Knuth interviewed NVIDIA's Will Wade about GPU virtualization and graphics acceleration in XenApp. In this video, they see side-by-side demos of the "old" delivery quality for 3D applications compared to the...
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NVIDIA had a huge booth at Citrix Synergy 2013 LA this week. Part of their booth included a white board where Will Wade showed Gabe Knuth how they explain GPU virtualization to customers. Check out this video to see the options for hypervisors, GPU virtualization...
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Did you miss Citrix Synergy this year? Is there just too much information coming out of twitter to make sense of what's happening? We're here to help! Jack Madden and I broke down the announcements made during the Citrix Synergy 2013 keynote with the...
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Today's opening keynote for Citrix Synergy 2013 LA is over. Here's the live blog I typed during it. It's in reverse order, so read from the bottom-up. Key takeaways are XenDesktop 7, XenMobile, and the Worx stuff. Tune into the live streamed podcast with...
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As you're hopefully aware, BriForum 2013 London is taking place this week. I kicked off the conference yesterday morning with a 20-minute "State of the Industry" keynote presentation. Check out it: Basically I explained our evolving view of desktop virtualization...
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May 17, 2013
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Big news from BriForum 2013 London, which kicks off today! It’s been a little over a year since Gabe, Jack, and I published the first edition of our book, The VDI Delusion . While we're incredibly proud of that book, in hindsight we're not sure...
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May 16, 2013
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Blog posting on BrianMadden.com might be a bit light this week as we scramble to put the final touches on our BriForum 2013 London conference which takes place this Thursday and Friday in London. (If you haven't registered yet and like to attend, you...
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May 14, 2013
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It's been awhile since we've talked about User Installed Apps (UIA) on the site. But with the news (rumor?) that AppSense is stopping development on their StrataApps UIA project , I'm starting to wonder if UIA even matters anymore? No, actually we've...
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May 13, 2013
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A few weeks ago, vWorkspace 8 was released, and while we used to be notified of such releases, things have apparently changed since Dell acquired Quest. I'm sure some of this has to do with Jon Roll's departure from the company to fill the CTO position...
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May 03, 2013
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Yesterday, Mary Jo Foley broke the news that Microsoft is developing a service based on Azure that will offer pay-per-use Windows desktops dubbed "Mohoro" . According to her, this is in the very early development stages and is not expected to be released...
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May 02, 2013
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Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of us in the SBC space dreamed of a Terminal Server feature called "live session migration." We wanted to be able to take a fully running user session from one server and instantly and transparently move it...
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April 29, 2013
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Over the last few months, details have been trickling out about Intel's latest processor family, Haswell. Just this week, pricing information was leaked for desktop and mobile processors, and we've also seen feature charts and some benchmarks on pre-release...
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April 26, 2013
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I've been writing about the future of the Windows desktop quite a bit recently. My belief is that as the world moves to devices and tablets and web apps and cloud whatever, the lowly Windows desktop application will be reduced to middleware , only used...
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April 22, 2013
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Last December I wrote that WatchDox bought InstallFree and that I loved the combination of the two companies. If you're not familiar with either company, WatchDox is one of the "corporate Dropbox-like solutions" with a keen focus on DRM and document &...
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Last week I had a call with Parallels, which was my first briefing with them in quite a while. I'm a Parallels Desktop user on my Mac, but besides that Parallels rarely comes up in the desktop virtualization space outside of that (other than a few "what...
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April 04, 2013
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I can't believe we have to have this conversation again. Microsoft's plans for their update to Windows 8 (codenamed Windows "Blue") have started to leak out, and many are claiming it will kill the desktop. <sigh> So since I know you're probably...
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April 01, 2013
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If you are following Citrix’s networking product line I guess that you are already familiar with a fact that Citrix has finally decided to “End of Life” the Access Gateway product line in 2014. While we can debate for hours if this decision...
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March 27, 2013
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It's no secret that I love what Nvidia is doing in the VDI space. We first wrote about them in 2011 when they outlined their vision of how GPUs could be used for remoting protocol encoding that could deliver graphics on par with local computing. Then...
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March 21, 2013
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