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Last week VMware announced View 5.1. One of the major new features is this thing called "View Storage Accelerator," or "VSA." In my article about View 5.1 , I wrote that I wasn't particularly excited about VSA. It turns out I didn't fully understand how...
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Brian Madden
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May 07, 2012
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Yesterday during the Microsoft Management Summit keynote, Microsoft showed off a demo of Shared-Nothing Live Migration using Hyper-V 3 and SCVMM 2012, and twitter was awash with comments like @fordeg's " VMware got kicked in the nuts today at MMS 2012...
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Gabe Knuth
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April 18, 2012
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A few weeks ago, Quest released vWorkspace 7.5, which is a pretty massive update for only being a half-release. In the release, they rewrote the Web Interface while adding support for Citrix farms (since they see mixed environments and those users wanted...
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Gabe Knuth
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February 17, 2012
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Hardware startup Nutanix unveiled their first product last night, a server/storage highly-scalable combination that just might be the perfect VDI host. And just like that, Nutanix is my current favorite startup vendor. (I can't remember who I last had...
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Brian Madden
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August 16, 2011
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Startup hardware vendor V3 Systems is offering VDI -specific servers with claims of high performance and ease of use. But some people wonder whether they’re nothing more than just a fancy bezel on a Super Micro server with a Fusion-io card. V3 came...
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Jack Madden
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August 12, 2011
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In this video from Citrix Synergy 2011 San Francisco, Datacore's Rob Griffin shows off SANsymphony-V and how it can be used to virtualize storage for VDI environments.
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Brian Madden
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May 31, 2011
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Jim McDonald, Chief Strategy Officer of Xiotech displays the ISE Storage Blade.
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Justin Meisinger
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May 16, 2011
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Personal disk images versus shared images--which is better for VDI ? This is one of the biggest decisions that companies need to think about when designing VDI solutions. Each has pros and cons. Conventional wisdom is that: Shared / non-persistent / 1...
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Brian Madden
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March 14, 2011
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Back in September, I wrote an article describing a product that I wanted that didn't exist: a local "virtual" storage option for VDI . Basically I described why I didn't like SANs for VDI and that I thought it would be cool if there...
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Brian Madden
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January 25, 2011
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Note: This article has been updated a few times since originally published back in December 2009, updated in December 2010 and September 2011; Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is hot. It’s cool, secure, centrally managed, flexible--it’s...
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Ruben Spruijt
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November 27, 2010
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Late last month, Citrix's Bill Carovano blogged about the new features in the upcoming version of XenServer known as "Cowley." One of the features he mentioned was: XenDesktop platform enhancements. Provides local host caching of VM images...
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Brian Madden
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October 18, 2010
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A few months ago I wrote an article called " F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local !" where I argued that for most VDI implementations it's actually a waste of money to boot and run desktop images from a SAN. Instead, I believe, all...
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Brian Madden
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September 27, 2010
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Tim Mangan talks about new hard drives on the market, with potential performance and breakage impacts. What it is and why you need to be aware!
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Tim Mangan
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August 16, 2010
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A couple of weeks ago Brian wrote an article titled “ F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local! ” It had about 40 comments and 3000 views in its first day, showing the emotion and interest in this topic. It really sparked a small war within...
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Ron Oglesby
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July 27, 2010
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(Be sure to check out Ron Oglesby's rebuttal to this: Brian's wrong...about VDI and local storage ) When discussing storage in the context of VDI, people often talk about things like SAN sizing and IOPS and linked clones and thin provisioning and disk...
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Brian Madden
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July 14, 2010
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Brian Madden
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June 17, 2010
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Peter Selin, Architect Chad Bittner, Technical Marketing Engineer Virtualization and VDI are some of the top buzzwords in the storage industry today – but how do you implement these initiatives into your data center and maximize the value they can...
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BriForum Video
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June 17, 2010
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For at least the last year, possibly two, we've been hearing about Unidesk and how they're poised to make a big impact in the VDI space. Until recently, however, it's been all smoke and no fire. Last week, Ron Oglesby and Chris Midgley made...
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Gabe Knuth
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April 06, 2010
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Ron Oglesby, who joined Unidesk last October, stops by to give Brian the first public demonstration of Unidesk, which is a new take on layering and storage virtualization for VDI environments.
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Gabe Knuth
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April 05, 2010
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For our first episode of 2010, Brian & Gabe sat down in the same room as their very first episode from a year ago. Today's episode is about about the desktop virtualization trends that will be important in 2010. Specifically, they discuss: Client...
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Brian Madden TV
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January 22, 2010
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