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As you can see from this top post, VMware bought most of RTO Software back in February 2010. So this topic won't have much activity moving forward unless we write about the part of RTO Software that VMware didn't buy.

  • VMworld 2011 Video: VMware View 5 Persona Management

    Jack Madden talks with VMware's Robert Baesman about a new feature in VMware View 5 called "Persona" for profile and user settings management. Traditionally, users had to give up personal settings to get the benefits of stateless desktops...
    by Justin Meisinger on September 01, 2011 : 0 comments , 3,071 views
  • VMware releases View 4.6. PCoIP Gateway is in. Profile virtualization is still out? Here's our full analysis.

    Last week VMware released View 4.6. It's a minor release with the main new feature being the "VMware View Security Server" which is a security proxy that lets users connect via PCoIP without needing a corporate VPN. But perhaps the bigger...
    by Brian Madden on March 08, 2011 : 11 comments , 11,511 views
  • Confirmed: VMware buys every part of RTO Software except what they owe Citrix. Here's our full analysis.

    A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the fact that Symantec had suddenly stopped selling their Workspace Profiles product which they OEM'ed from RTO Software. I wondered why this was, and suggested that perhaps it was because Symantec competitor...
    by Brian Madden on February 24, 2010 : 22 comments , 11,793 views
  • Symantec suddenly stops selling Workspace Profiles. Does this mean VMware is acquiring RTO?

    Last March, we learned that Symantec’s Workspace Profiles product was an OEM / rebranded edition of RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles . Then in September, we learned that VMware also signed an agreement with RTO Software for their Virtual Profiles...
    by Brian Madden on February 03, 2010 : 18 comments , 6,507 views
  • VMware licenses RTO’s Profile Management technology for use in future VDI products

    The only actual new announcement that VMware made about desktops at VMworld last week was that they were licensing RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles product for inclusion in some future version of VMware View. ( press release ) This is great news, as the...
    by Brian Madden on September 08, 2009 : 12 comments , 7,427 views
  • Brian Madden TV #17 - VMworld 2009 wrap-up: software PC-over-IP, client hypervisor, and RTO OEM

    Gabe and Brian are at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week. (Read Brian's live blogs of the two keynotes - Day 1 and Day 2 .) It's been a busy few days with a lot of demos. We recorded enough video content for probably two or three weeks worth...
    by Brian Madden TV on September 03, 2009 : 10 comments , 9,147 views
  • BriForum 2009 DEMO Lab: RTO Software

    During BriForum 2009 , we shot videos of our sponsors live in the DEMO Lab. In these videos, viewers can experience the technologies and products that vendors brought with them to showcase to our attendees. In this video, we hear from Cassondra McAllister...
    by Brian Madden on July 22, 2009 : 0 comments , 2,569 views
  • Brian Madden TV #16 - Wyse VDA video demo, RTO's kid coder, and Brian's USB over RDP 7 woes

    Brian and Gabe are back with Brian Madden TV #16 for July 9, 2009. In this episode: Why Brian thinks this year's BriForum will be the best ever (duh!) Brian's switch to RDP 7 and why USB is still troublesome How RemoteScan addresses client scanning...
    by Brian Madden on July 09, 2009 : 9 comments , 8,254 views
  • Ah-hah! Symantec’s Workspace Profiles product is rebranded RTO Virtual Profiles

    I can 100% confirm that Symantec licensed / OEM’ed RTO Software’s Virtual Profiles product that will become the Workspace Profiles component of Symantec’s new Endpoint Virtualization Suite 6.1 . Symantec is not “officially” acknowledging this, although...
    by Brian Madden on March 10, 2009 : 12 comments , 5,401 views
  • A roundup of the desktop / application vendors at VMworld 2008 (Part 2: N-R)

    As I wrote a few weeks ago, the fact that VMworld 2008 had over 200 vendors and exhibitors is a bit overwhelming at first. After going to the show, I realized that only about 30 or so of the 200+ vendors made products that were relevant in the desktop and application virtualization spaces. I tried to visit and learn about as many of those vendors as I could at the conference. Last week I published Part 1 of the vendor round-up, and today's article is Part 2....
    by Brian Madden on September 28, 2008 : 14 comments , 7,608 views
  • Implementing a Successful VDI Pilot (Sponsored by RTO Software), from BriForum 2008

    This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Kevin Goodman and Steven McAllister. Session Description: In this session RTO Software takes you through the steps necessary to have a successful VDI pilot project. Using RTO Software...
    by Brian Madden on June 18, 2008 : 0 comments , 724 views
  • Why RTO TScale is better than adding more memory

    With TScale costing about $1,000 per server, why not just buy a few more gigs of RAM for half that cost and forget TScale." In the real world, TScale can allow you to put more users on a server than any amount of memory would.

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    by Brian Madden on July 19, 2003 : 0 comments , 12,477 views