April 2014

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  What to expect at Synergy: Framehawk, DesktopPlayer for PC, XenApp, & positioning against VMware

  Every time I go to Synergy or VMworld, I come away thinking "Man, this company really has their act together." For a while, it was empty promises in the effort one one-upping each other, in the last year or two the bombastic keynote has given way to...  Continue Reading

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  MobileIron’s spring updates target the enterprise with Splunk, VPN options, and AirPlay Mirroring.

  Today MobileIron announced a round of new features targeting the enterprise, including Splunk integration, new options for per-app VPN in iOS 7, and remote screen sharing for iOS. Their messaging around the announcement is that as mobile device ...  Continue Reading

• April 27, 2014 27 Apr'14

  Is it time for VMware to buy a printing company like ThinPrint?

  Now that Horizon 6 is out and people (like me) have been talking about how it's the first major competition to Citrix XenApp, people (again like me) have been wondering: How do you print from this thing? VMware did a deal with ThinPrint for View, ...  Continue Reading

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  A retrospective of 10 years of BriForum. What are your favorite memories?

  With less than a month to go before BriForum 2014 London, Gabe and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of our favorite BriForum moments over the years.  Continue Reading

• April 24, 2014 24 Apr'14

  What does Citrix need to say about enterprise mobility management at Synergy?

  With Synergy starting in just over a week, Citrix is in a tough spot on the desktop front. Customers are annoyed with XenApp 7.  Continue Reading

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Dell Wyse Cloud Connect falls short in many areas, but management is a bright spot

  I've waffled back and forth on Android thin clients over the years. At first I thought they would be the next evolution of thin clients (which, in thin clients, even an evolution is revolutionary), but after I got my hands on an Android mini-PC, I ...  Continue Reading

• April 21, 2014 21 Apr'14

  What if Google “got serious” with Android management? Meh, it wouldn’t matter!

  Most of the time when we talk about enterprise mobility management, we take the role of Android and Google for granted. The common knowledge (which was represented in my two recent articles covering the EMM platform market and the dual persona ...  Continue Reading

• April 20, 2014 20 Apr'14

  The complete guide to dual persona work/personal Android devices! (Including Samsung Knox)

  You've probably heard about Samsung Knox or the VMware Horizon Mobile Virtualization Platform. These are the basis for specialized Android devices that have two user environments-one for all your work apps and data and one for your personal stuff.  Continue Reading

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  All the major software vendors are doing EMM now. Who will the winners and losers be?

  Over the last year, we've seen many of the largest software vendors move into enterprise mobility management, so naturally we're all wondering how this will all shake out. Will EMM be an add-on product, with each solution pinned to the success of ...  Continue Reading

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Imagine subscribing to locally-hosted cloud desktops. On-premises DaaS could be a real thing!

  Of all the downsides of challenges of DaaS that we wrote about in our book, the most common theme throughout was trust. Trust in the provider, trust in the platform, trusting something that isn't in your walls, the list of trust issues goes on an on.  Continue Reading

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Everything you need to know about Windows Phone 8.1 MDM. This time it’s *really* an enterprise phone

  Microsoft recently revealed Windows Phone 8.1 at Build 2014 in San Francisco.  Continue Reading

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Moka5 Suite 4.0 is out, now with WiFi controls, Mac malware detection, and way higher scalability

  Today, Moka5 is releasing version 4 of their suite, and while it's not the huge splash we've grown accustomed to (us bloggers have been spoiled the last few months), it was good to get an update on what they've been doing. It's been a while since I ...  Continue Reading

• April 13, 2014 13 Apr'14

  He's back! Doug Brown releases 350-page "How to" guide for Citrix BYOD products.

  Many of us first heard about Doug Brown ten years ago with his "Project-in-a-Box" and "Methodology-in-a-Box" documents where he basically walked us through how to design and set up a Citrix MetaFrame environment step-by-step from scratch.  Continue Reading

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  Where should Citrix and VMware focus their efforts? Hint: It's the same group of people.

  Isn't competition awesome? Nobody will argue that Citrix hasn't been a little lackadaisical in the XenApp department over the past few years.  Continue Reading

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  VMware plans to leverage AirWatch in Horizon 6, Will start managing endpoints & containers like MDM

  Now that Horizon 6 has been announced, the AirWatch acquisition has gone through, and we're no longer questioning VMware's commitment to end-user computing, the next question is what VMware will do to integrate AirWatch and Horizon? Today the two ...  Continue Reading

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  VMware announces RDSH & full app publishing support! Claims easy XenApp 6.5-to-Horizon 6 migration!

  Well, it looks like we were all right about April 9, 2014 being big day! What we got wrong was the reason.  Continue Reading

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  3D graphics for Virtual Desktops Smackdown

  Virtualization industry experts Benny Tritsch, Ruben Spruijt, and Shawn Bass have produced a comprehensive and up-to-date document covering exactly what technologists need to know about "3D Graphics for Virtual Desktops."  Continue Reading

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  Windows XP support ends today. Discuss!

  So this is today: Do you care?  Continue Reading

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  200+ BriForum session videos are now on YouTube

  I've been meaning to post this for awhile but haven't gotten around to it until today. A few months ago, Justin posted about 200 BriForum sessions from the past two years to YouTube.  Continue Reading

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Cloud platforms diminish Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp's value. *This* is the opportunity for VMware!

  Yesterday Gabe wrote an article questioning whether Citrix would be able to catch up to VMware if VMware extended Horizon View to support RDSH and/or app publishing. Many of the reader comments on that article were variations of, "XenApp has many ...  Continue Reading