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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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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 image streaming and... the list goes on. But one of the most important aspects of storage design for...
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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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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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Yesterday’s main article on BrianMadden.com was about the disk images used for today’s VDI deployments. We specifically looked at whether the technologies that allow many users to “share” a single master image are actually ready...
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Brian Madden
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November 24, 2009
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Today's topic is something that BrianMadden.com user " AppDetective " has been talking about in almost every one of the 243 comments he's posted. Essentially he's saying that VDI today is limited to persistent, or "1-to-1"...
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Brian Madden
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November 23, 2009
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One of the things that’s most annoying about the desktop virtualization industry is that we’re doing things with Windows that Windows was never really designed for. For example, we’re taking a single Windows disk image and sharing it...
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Brian Madden
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June 16, 2009
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