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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Are you missing 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! Join Jack Madden and myself (with Brian chiming in somehow, despite the fact that he's playing hooky this...
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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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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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April 09, 2013
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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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Last week, Project VRC released the results of their State of the Industry Survey , and upon reading it I discovered several interesting things ( which I wrote about last week ). Besides the fact that significantly more people are doing non-persistent...
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March 20, 2013
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I've made a lot of predictions in the past that have been wrong, most notably that by 2010 all the technical components would be in place for wholesale VDI adoption . (Though in my defense in those days we used the term "VDI" to describe all types of...
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March 18, 2013
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Last year, Project VRC invited people around the world complete an extensive survey that asked them to describe their desktop virtualization environment. 662 people took part in the survey, and since it closed, Project VRC has been busy making sense of...
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March 14, 2013
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BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago . Registration for London is currently open , and the price to attend the two day show is currently £795 through March 28, after...
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March 13, 2013
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Are you looking for an independent overview of desktop virtualization solutions and curious about the different strategy questions? Do you want detailed information about the features and functions each desktop virtualization vendor is offering!? If so...
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March 10, 2013
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