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Server Virtualization Infrastructure

• In a reversal, Microsoft will allow Office 365 ProPlus on Server 2019

  A delightful surprise to go along with the official availability of FSlogix as a Microsoft product.  Continue Reading

• Teradici unveiled “PCoIP Ultra.” How is it different from PCoIP and where does it fit in the market?

  Teradici have evolved a lot in the last few years, but as in the past, they have an emphasis on high-end use cases. Now they’re bringing in support for H.264, and NVIDIA hardware encoding, too.  Continue Reading

• Xi Frame announces on-premises VDI on Nutanix AHV – Nutanix .NEXT 2019 news

  What other enterprise and multi-cloud plans do they have? We’ll be watching to see this week at Nutanix .NEXT.  Continue Reading

• Nutanix acquires Frame: BrianMadden.com analysis

  Nutanix is much more than just a storage or HCI vendor, and acquiring a desktop virtualization platform brings them directly into this complex aspect of EUC.  Continue Reading

• RDmi is a milestone for the future of RDS. Here’s how it works

  RDmi remains in private Technical Preview, but it’s already an exciting milestone with huge potential.  Continue Reading

• GeekOut 365 video: Use SD-WAN to enhance global user experience

  Ensure great UX for your remote or global employees over long-distance WAN.  Continue Reading

• Windows Server 2019: Session Host is dead! Multi-user Win10 instead?

  Imagine if RDSH was based on a client OS instead of a server OS. Fantastic, right?  Continue Reading

• Why do Azure Stack appliances have to be certified?

  Azure MVP Marius Sandbu gives us a lesson on Azure Stack.  Continue Reading

• Meltdown and Spectre are a buzzworthy pain in the neck, but there’s no need to lose your cool.

  Cool names and logos, along with some sensationalized numbers, bolstered the Meltdown and Spectre buzz, but the reality is that this might be little more than an annoyance for most of us in EUC.  Continue Reading

• Moving to the cloud is not easy or cheap

  It’s worth remembering that there’s always more to the cloud than you first think.  Continue Reading

• We're opening up Call for Papers for the next set of GeekOut 365 videos!

  It's been a few months since the initial release of GeekOut 365, and now it's time to add to our library of independent, community-led, expert videos.  Continue Reading

• The 'death' of Windows Nano Server

  Microsoft recently made Nano Server a “containers-only” platform. MVP Mike Nelson explains why they’re missing an opportunity.  Continue Reading

• NVIDIA, Dell, and ThinPrint: Circling back to other VMworld announcements

  With VMworld in the rear view mirror, let's look into some of the other announcements that came out of the show. Today, we'll talk about vMotion for NVIDIA vGPU, Dell VDI Complete, and ThinPrint eZeep Dash.  Continue Reading

• With the rise of Nano Server, is Windows 10 the future of RDSH?

  There's little doubt that Microsoft is heavily focused on Nano Server as the OS of the future. Will they keep the full Windows Server around for RDSH, or move RDSH to Windows 10?  Continue Reading

• ExtraHop's Addy uses machine learning to identify anomalies using wire data so you don't have to

  I've liked ExtraHop's wire data monitoring for many years, and their recent cloud platform–Addy–takes their usefulness to the next level.  Continue Reading

• Google shows its enterprise ambition at Cloud Next ‘17. Here’s our overview for EUC folks.

  Google Cloud, the enterprise group at Google which is led by Diane Greene, just made a ton of new cloud computing and end user computing announcements.  Continue Reading

• What keeps Okta, Dropbox, MobileIron and others awake at night? Microsoft, and for good reason.

  All the standards and integration in the world won't amount to a hill of beans when Microsoft decides to invest in a technology. Such is the case with EFSS, EMM, and IDaaS today.  Continue Reading

• Windows Containers for Geeks!

  Our resident Windows Server expert explains what Windows Containers are, how they work, and why they’re useful.  Continue Reading

• Windows Nano Server: Welcome to the Mini-OS!

  Mike Nelson (MVP, CTP, vExpert, and BriForum speaker) gives us a full overview of Nano Server, the new version of Windows Server that will change the way we think about it.  Continue Reading

• VMware is going to do Linux VDI too. So what if it’s a niche of a niche, people need it.

  VMware recently announced that they will be building Linux support into Horizon View.  Continue Reading

• Chalk up another EMM vendor acquisition: IBM bought Fiberlink. Here’s our take.

  For a few years now, the constant refrain about the enterprise mobility management space has been that with so many vendors, it's ripe for consolidation. So it shouldn't be too much of a shock that yesterday we learned that IBM is buying Fiberlink, ...  Continue Reading

• Is VDI more "green" than traditional desktops? And if so, does it matter?

  On our CitrixLive! webcast last week (Shawn Bass, Rick Dehlinger, Harry Labana, and me), we talked a bit about the power savings you can get with VDI.  Continue Reading

• Is IBM’s new Smart Business Desktop Cloud secretly powered by Desktone?

  Earlier this week, IBM announced its first wave of commercial cloud services. The news was a big step for them and was well covered by bloggers and via twitter, although I didn't personally pay too much attention since I don't really follow the ...  Continue Reading

• You know why I like blade workstations? Because they’re predictable.

  Can you believe that it’s been over five years since we wrote our first article comparing TS-based SBC solutions to workstation-based SBC solutions? Of course in those days we were talking about PC blades in the datacenter rather than VMs, but the ...  Continue Reading

• Oracle buys Sun. Is there a desktop virtualization angle here?

  Or maybe that should be "desktop virtualization angel," in that Oracle will do with the Sunrays what they did with their own NCs a decade ago? Am I joking about that?  Continue Reading

• Now THAT's a blade! HP BL495c: 8 cores, dual 10GbE, 128GB RAM

  Like most blades, HP's new BL495c G5 server blades have two processor sockets. Unlike most blades, they have two integrated 10GbE NICs, 16 DIMM slots for a max of 128GB of RAM, and two solid state drive bays.  Continue Reading