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  • Citrix bought AppDNA. Quest bought ChangeBASE. Can we declare a winner? Let's look at both.

    With both AppDNA and ChangeBASE being recently acquired , (by Citrix and Quest, respectively) Gabe and I decided to get both of them on the phone. Our intention wasn’t really to do a head-to-head shoot-out and declare a winner; rather it was more...
    by Jack Madden on December 22, 2011 : 5 comments , 4,266 views
  • Brian & Gabe LIVE: Listen to the recording of today's live internet radio show, with guest Rob Mallicoat. Episode 9

    The agenda for the show was wide-open. We also arranged for Quest Software's Rob Mallicoat to call in to talk a bit about what they've been up to, including them reorganizing the desktop division of the company and buying ChangeBASE. Here's what we ended...
    by Brian Madden on November 09, 2011 : 0 comments , 2,283 views
  • Brian and Gabe walk the floor at BriForum 2011 Chicago

    At BriForum 2011 Chicago, we had close to 30 vendors who exhibited in our DEMO Lab. In this video Brian & Gabe walk the floor and give a tour of everyone who's there. We also recorded in-depth demos in every vendor booth. You can view those on the...
    by Justin Meisinger on July 22, 2011 : 0 comments , 3,522 views
  • Quest DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 Chicago

    Hugh McEvoy, Manager of Product Management at Quest Software demos Foglight for Virtual Desktops.
    by Justin Meisinger on July 21, 2011 : 0 comments , 2,981 views
  • Quest Software DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London

    Michel Roth, Principal Product Architect for Quest takes us through Quest vWorkspace.
    by Justin Meisinger on May 16, 2011 : 0 comments , 1,437 views
  • Quest acquires RemoteScan

    Short and simple for Friday. (As in "the Friday before BriForum London so we're really really busy.") So here's the gist: If you've never heard of RemoteScan, then you probably don't have any scanners or imaging devices you need to support via VDI or...
    by Brian Madden on May 06, 2011 : 6 comments , 4,622 views
  • Will layers matter in time to change the desktop management landscape?

    This post started as a comment on Brian's article titled " MokaFive plans to release 'Layering' as its own product. Nice! " but I think this topic is important enough to warrant a blog post with it's own commentary. First, I want to say that it is refreshing...
    by appdetective on April 27, 2011 : 8 comments , 5,454 views
  • Does Quest+MokaFive = threat to Citrix?

    Last week Quest Software announced that they would begin selling and supporting MokaFive's client-based desktop virtualization product. This means that Quest can now offer a very complete (albeit not integrated) solution to support datacenter desktops...
    by Brian Madden on April 18, 2011 : 8 comments , 8,729 views
  • Quest Software CEO responds to my criticism of their 1987-era logo

    Last month Gabe, Bridget, and I recorded a video on SearchVirtualDesktop where we discussed our 2011 predictions for the desktop virtualization industry. At one point in the video we started discussing Quest Software and their challenges when competing...
    by Brian Madden on February 04, 2011 : 4 comments , 11,715 views
  • First Look: Quest vWorkspace 7.2 install and new features

    We've had some pretty good exposure to Quest vWorkspace in the last year, having seen them at Geek Week in the spring with vWorkspace 7.0 and then again over the summer when they demonstrated their EOP Xtream enhancements to RemoteFX. Recently, they...
    by Gabe Knuth on January 19, 2011 : 4 comments , 5,520 views
  • Brian Madden TV #31 - PCoIP add-in cards, Virtual Bridges Spice, and the week's news

    After many months of no Brian Madden TV, we're relaunching it for 2011. (This is primarily thanks to our new video producer Justin Meisinger who joined us in August.) The biggest change to Brian Madden TV for 2011 is that we're keeping the show...
    by Brian Madden TV on December 27, 2010 : 6 comments , 4,285 views
  • Amazing! Quest OEMs Liquidware Lab's VDI assessment toolkit and provides it for free!

    From the "hell yeah!" department, Quest Software has licensed Liquidware Labs' VDI assessment tool and decided to provide it for free to everyone. No strings attached. Just go download it! For those unfamiliar with Liquidware Labs, I wrote...
    by Brian Madden on December 15, 2010 : 22 comments , 8,747 views
  • Parallels Containers 4.6 is released with no fanfare. Are they still relevant in the desktop virtualization space?

    I was having a conversation with some folks from Quest Software today about the 7.2 version of vWorkspace (which is supposed to RTM any day now), and the the topic of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers came up. Quest vWorkspace, as you may recall, is the...
    by Brian Madden on November 24, 2010 : 7 comments , 4,353 views
  • Microsoft to Quest in 2009: "A winning partnership." Microsoft to Quest in 2010: "Que-who?"

    Back in April 2009 I wrote  Move over Citrix! Microsoft and Quest form "a winning partnership" for desktop virtualization . This was when Microsoft started to embrace Quest as a desktop virtualization partner in addition to the love they heaped...
    by Brian Madden on November 12, 2010 : 30 comments , 6,129 views
  • Citrix HDX 3D Pro versus Microsoft RemoteFX

    I've been traveling the world the past few months delivering seminars on desktop virtualization, and one question that's popped up a few times is about Citrix HDX 3D versus Microsoft RemoteFX. People want to know which one is better? The answer...
    by Brian Madden on October 28, 2010 : 29 comments , 14,808 views
  • Quest's EOP "Xtream" does amazing things for RDP latency (with video demo goodness)

    Quest recently released version 7.1 of their vWorkspace Desktop Virtualization Suite. One of the cool new features is something called EOP "Xtream," an enhancement to RDP that increases performance in environments with high latency. When Quest visited...
    by Brian Madden on July 12, 2010 : 10 comments , 8,675 views
  • Video of new features in Quest vWorkspace 7.1

    When we did our Geek Week: VDI Shootout back in March, one of the products we tested was Quest vWorkspace 7.0. They've since released the 7.1 version with some new features. In this video, Patrick Rouse visited our San Francisco office to show Gabe...
    by Brian Madden on July 12, 2010 : 0 comments , 2,776 views
  • VDI Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

    If you're looking for an independent overview of the Server Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI) solutions and you're curious about the different features and functions of each vendor's, then this paper is for you! In the current market there's...
    by Ruben Spruijt on June 24, 2010 : 14 comments , 21,982 views
  • Quest's Rob Mallicoat shows some new features of vWorkspace 7.1

    I had a chance to catch up with Quest this week while at MMS 2010, just a few days after their announcement of vWorkspace 7.1 . Rob Mallicoat (who also joined us for Geek Week earlier this year) took a few minutes to show off some of the new features...
    by Gabe Knuth on April 22, 2010 : 11 comments , 3,806 views
  • Brian's speaking schedule for the rest of 2010. This week, 5 speeches in Australia & NZ!

    If you're in Australia or New Zealand this week, I'll be giving five speeches (in five days!) about desktop virtualization and the state of the industry in 2010. The schedule is as follows: Canberra, Monday April 19, 12:30, Boat House by the Lake...
    by Brian Madden on April 18, 2010 : 0 comments , 2,754 views