It's hard to believe that we still have to deal with licensing for our VDI and virtual desktop environments today. But between TS CALs (now called RDSH CALs), VECD, VDA, user-based licensing, etc., etc.. there's still a lot to understand!
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For this week's Brian & Gabe (& Jack) LIVE, we decided to push the show back a few hours to give the West Coast folks a fighting chance to catch it live. (That's code for saying that Brian & Jack felt that they would be more interesting if...
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February 07, 2012
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I've been trying to get together with OnLive for well over a year now, ever since seeing their cloud-based gaming platform. I'm not much of a gamer, though. For me it was the protocol that they use that generated the most interest. For a while my requests...
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January 25, 2012
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While we've had a lot of conversations on BrianMadden.com over the past few weeks about Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 and tablets, there still a few open questions that we haven't talked about yet. The one on my mind today is about the business model...
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January 16, 2012
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A few weeks ago, we struck a nerve with two back-to-back articles dealing with Microsoft Licensing ( here and here ), so this week we decided to ask Nathan Coutinho to join us as a guest. Nathan's official title is Enterprise Server, Storage & Virtualization...
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November 22, 2011
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Last week I had a conversation with Leostream CEO Michael Palin about their new cloud-based desktop service called “ Leostream Mobile Desktops .” This service gives you a virtual machine hosted in Amazon’s EC2 cloud delivered by RDP...
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November 10, 2011
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Somehow, both Brian and I were on a licensing kick this week, and I was surprised to see his article yesterday about Windows Server 2008 as a way of skirting the SA/VDA requirement at the same time I was knee-deep in Microsoft licensing fun. For me, it...
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November 08, 2011
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One of the worst things about desktop virtualization is that Microsoft's licensing rules around it are complex and draconian. (Behold the power of a monopoly!) Even if you have a fully licensed copy of Windows 7, you need to have an additional license...
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November 07, 2011
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To quote Shawn Bass (when he joined Gabe & me on our radio show from BriForum two weeks ago), VMware has issued a CLA, "Corrective Licensing Action" to change the wildly unpopular licensing terms of their upcoming vSphere 5 product. If you're not...
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August 04, 2011
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As you know, on Tuesday VMware announced the details of vSphere 5, complete with a new license model. Yesterday we shared our full analysis of what the new licensing meant for VDI users, with the general feeling that vSphere 5 would be much more expensive...
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July 15, 2011
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As you're well aware by now, VMware announced a new licensing model for vSphere 5. (Read our full analysis of all the gory details here .) I'm working on an article for tomorrow where I'm running a bunch of numbers to see just how VDI / datacenter-hosted...
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July 14, 2011
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Yesterday VMware announced Version 5 of their main product, vSphere. (In other words, they announced ESX 5.) While vSphere 5 has tons of new features, it also has a new licensing model. Early reactions from the community are that the change in licensing...
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July 14, 2011
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Lately I've been messing around with the idea of using Windows XP to connect to RemoteFX sessions. The official Microsoft line is that RFX is only supported on Windows Server 2008 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows Embedded Standard 7 at this point, but...
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April 06, 2011
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There has been a lot of discussion around Reverse Seamless and its value over the years. Recently RES Software announced a standalone version for $15 per user, which Brian wrote about on SearchVirtualDesktop.com calling it "super cool as a stand...
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March 07, 2011
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Today, Citrix announced some changes to their Trade-Up to XenDesktop program that a lot of people already knew about due to a leak on Twitter a few weeks ago. It's official now that Citrix is making the Trade-up to XenDesktop program a permanent way...
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January 17, 2011
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Last week there was a blog post and interesting discussion on the use cases for Windows Embedded Standard 7 thin clients (WES7). Outside of the usual "thin client vs. other options," a key issue is the fact that Microsoft wants you to pay for...
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August 17, 2010
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The VECD licensing changes Microsoft recently announced made me wonder: is a Windows-based client with SA cheaper than a non-Windows non-SA client in a VDI scenario? (Since VECD is mandatory, the math becomes interesting.) This is something I've discussed...
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March 22, 2010
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Back in 2007 I wrote how WANscaler could become Citrix’s secret weapon if they integrated its WAN smarts into the server-side creation of ICA (now HDX) data packets. Then in 2009, I wrote about WAN optimization again , stressing that the emergence...
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March 05, 2010
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A few months ago I blogged about the irony of the Microsoft VDI Suite bundle marketed for "lower complexity" environments, while the bundle itself consists of several different and completely unrelated Microsoft products--and hooking them all...
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February 22, 2010
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As everyone reading this is painfully aware, Citrix’s XenDesktop 4 announcement was overshadowed by the fact that they decided to change the licensing model with this new release. Previous versions were licensed based on concurrent users, while XenDesktop...
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October 20, 2009
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The results from our XenDesktop 4 Licensing Survey are in with over 280 participants. As expected they were largely in favor of Per User licensing. Haha...little blogger humor. In fact, the results were overwhelmingly against per user licensing, even...
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October 15, 2009
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