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Silver Peak DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London

Joe Bombagi, Director of Systems Engineering at Silver Peak, discusses the company's WAN optimization solutions.

by Justin Meisinger on May 16, 2011 : 0 comments , 1,246 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 , 2,775 views
Does IPeak hold the secret to making PC-over-IP good on the WAN?

One of the vendors that Gabe and I met with at Synergy last week was IPeak Networks , a company with solutions to deal with packet loss over WAN environments. IPeak's main business today is in the telepresence and video conferencing markets, although...

by Brian Madden on May 21, 2010 : 15 comments , 4,576 views
Citrix releases virtual appliance versions of their WAN accelerator. When will this be built into XenDesktop?

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...

by Brian Madden on March 05, 2010 : 3 comments , 5,679 views
What’s the best configuration for WAN simulation of remoting protocols?

Now that Gabe and I are back from the holidays, we’re getting ready to spend some quality time with several of the recently-released VDI products (both for our “ VDI Week ” and for our general knowledge and articles.) One of the first...

by Brian Madden on January 07, 2010 : 12 comments , 7,182 views
New startup Wanova hopes to enable local VDI over the WAN with continuously-synced disk images

A desktop virtualization company called “ Wanova ” came out of stealth mode yesterday . Their forthcoming software product called “ Mirage ” is a solution for streaming, managing, and bi-directionally syncing Windows disk images...

by Brian Madden on August 20, 2009 : 5 comments , 5,874 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
A purpose-built-for-remote-display-protocols, software-only WAN accelerator from… Wyse?!?

This morning Wyse released a brand-new software product called “Virtual Desktop Accelerator” (VDA). ( product page | press release ) VDA is a software-only WAN acceleration product that’s used to increase the performance and end-user...

by Brian Madden on July 08, 2009 : 4 comments , 5,835 views
If you haven’t looked at WAN optimizer appliances, now’s the time. And they get more important with these “New Desktops”

Citrix bought a company called Orbital Data back in July 2006 which ultimately led to the creation of Citrix’s WANscaler line of appliances. This was the first time I really started paying attention to proper WAN accelerators or WAN optimizers....

by Brian Madden on April 08, 2009 : 18 comments , 6,468 views
Cisco, VMware, & Brian Madden webcast about VDI & the WAN, today @11:00am Eastern

If anyone has a spare hour today, I'll be giving a webcast with Cisco and VMware at 11:00 Eastern time (16:00 GMT). Registration is required, which may be done here . The general flow of the webcast is that I'll do a quick 15 minute intro about...

by Brian Madden on January 22, 2009 : 1 comments , 3,739 views

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Silver Peak DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London

Video of new features in Quest vWorkspace 7.1

Does IPeak hold the secret to making PC-over-IP good on the WAN?

Citrix releases virtual appliance versions of their WAN accelerator. When will this be built into XenDesktop?

What’s the best configuration for WAN simulation of remoting protocols?

New startup Wanova hopes to enable local VDI over the WAN with continuously-synced disk images

Brian Madden TV #16 - Wyse VDA video demo, RTO's kid coder, and Brian's USB over RDP 7 woes

A purpose-built-for-remote-display-protocols, software-only WAN accelerator from… Wyse?!?

If you haven’t looked at WAN optimizer appliances, now’s the time. And they get more important with these “New Desktops”

Cisco, VMware, & Brian Madden webcast about VDI & the WAN, today @11:00am Eastern