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Note: This article was originally published on October 25, 2012. We're reposting it today since Browsium Catalyst was just released . Yesterday, Browsium released a beta version of their new Catalyst product that will help organizations deal with the...
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January 25, 2013
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Some of you may know the first-ever post on BrianMadden.com was about how New Moon Software, makers of the server-based computing product called Canaveral-IQ, sold to Tarantella in 2003 (nine years ago!). The Canaveral-IQ product was folded into Tarantella...
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August 15, 2012
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Gabe wrote about how HTML5 clients work almost a year ago , and he mentioned Ericom's HTML5 client in his review of his Chromebook . Put simply, Ericom AccessNow is an HTML5 client for using remote desktops through web browsers. The client is "installed...
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January 31, 2012
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Everyone knows that Internet Explorer 6 is still causing headaches for IT Pros everywhere. It was so new and radical when it came out with Windows XP ten years ago, and many companies scrambled to rewrite their apps to support it. Unfortunately the world...
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November 10, 2011
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Yesterday Amazon announced a new tablet device (called the Kindle Fire ) which will be a 7-inch tablet running Android. They also announced a new web browser for the device called Amazon Silk . But unlike regular browsers which run locally on the device...
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September 29, 2011
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Last week VMware officially launched VMware Horizon App Manager, the first phase of their "Horizon" project which extends on-premise user identities and app provisioning into cloud and SaaS apps. This is definitely a "v1" launch (well actually the stuff...
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May 23, 2011
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Yesterday I wrote about Google's announcement of their upcoming Chrome OS, a "browser running on bare metal" that will just be used for web apps. I predicted (like many others) that as web apps evolve into true rich internet apps that can...
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December 09, 2010
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A few weeks ago at Citrix Synergy in Berlin, Citrix announced OpenCloud Access and OpenCloud Bridge . Both products will join their OpenCloud line of cloud integration products, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The real news is that OpenCloud Access...
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November 17, 2010
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We've talked a bit about VMware's "Project Horizon" over the past few weeks, but it's worth having a full and dedicated conversation. Why? Because Project Horizon has the potential to answer the fundamental "What will IT be in ten years"? question, and...
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September 09, 2010
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For years we've been talking about how IT is really just about the applications, and how today's business world is about Windows applications. Of course now that's changing. We're not moving to the web/cloud/SaaS overnight, but we're definitely seeing...
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August 25, 2010
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Just a quick post regarding G.ho.st (now moved to Ghost.cc and simply called "Ghost"), a company we took a brief look at last year when looking into the upstart browser-desktop movement. According to their website , "the public Ghost service...
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March 10, 2010
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Lately, I've been looking into browser desktops to see if they qualify as a type of VDI. For those that aren't aware, browser desktops (BD's) are relatively lightweight desktop environments that execute in your local machine's internet...
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October 07, 2009
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