Videos

BriForum 2012 London video: Stop Talking About Desktop Transformation! Talk About Users & Use Cases!

We are forgetting that users do not really need a desktop, just mainly apps to do their day-to-day jobs. It's now time to talk about user and uses cases that involve adapting your apps/desktop delivery strategy to provide users the best experience to achieve their duties.
BriForum 2012 London video: So, You Just Inherited Someone Else's Citrix Environment. Now What?

You are now a system administrator in a large enterprise. Everything is going like clockwork, except for one major problem: There are 5 different versions of Presentation Server in use and there is no documentation for any system.

BriForum 2012 London video: Device, Data & Application Management for Corporate & Personal Devices

Thanks to the consumerization of IT, the world of enterprise mobility management has gone through huge changes within the last five years.
BriForum 2012 London session video: Advanced Sequencing for App-V

As an IT professional, you may understand the basics of sequencing, but do you know what tricks you can use to overcome troublesome applications?
BriForum 2012 London video: What Two Years of Living in the Trenches Taught Kevin Goodman About VDI

The no-holds-barred session about what Kevin Goodman hates about VDI and why he thinks it is only useful in particular use cases.
BriForum 2012 London video: Demystifying Microsoft Licensing for Client Virtualisation Environments

This session will provide an in-depth view of how to license Microsoft products while utilizing client virtualization technologies.
BriForum 2012 London session video: How to Fail at VDI

In this "tongue-in-cheek" session, Dan Brinkmann will talk about the ways VDI projects fail, ultimately discussing what you need to do to ensure success. Many organizations often say they want to do desktop virtualization, but have no business problem they're trying to solve.
BriForum 2012 London session video: Demonstration Gone Wild: A Deep Look at Windows 8

The latest developments around Windows 8: Windows Client 8 and desktop virtualization with RDSH and RDVH, RemoteFX, Windows Server 8 with Hyper-V and SCVMM2012, Touch and MetroUI will be showcased.
BriForum 2012 London session video: Top 13 Ways Microsoft Uses Caching to Increase Performance

Based on the book of the same name (to be released in spring 2012), this session will be a dive into understanding one particular technique to improve system performance: caching. Microsoft OS--whether desktop or server, physical or virtual --uses caching and caching-like techniques in many different ways.
BriForum 2012 London session video: The Future of the Enterprise Desktop

Even though we have all these cutting-edge desktop virtualization technologies, it seems that the "desktop" of today is really not that different than the desktop we've been providing for the past 20 years.
BriForum 2012 London video: Server Performance Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: The Quick & Easy Way

Poorly performing SBC or VDI servers can never be fixed fast enough, and nothing can kill a new project faster than unacceptable performance. Few organizations are able to invest time and money into benchmarking, and the lack of proper benchmarks only complicates analysis of poorly performing hardware.
BriForum 2012 London video: Remoting Multimedia and Interactive Graphics Applications

Over the years, Shawn Bass and Benny Tritsch have been constantly developing and improving their unique, vendor-independent, remoting protocol test methodology, allowing them to visually compare different protocols head-to-head.
BriForum 2012 London video: VDI Smackdown 2012 and Understanding the Impact of Storage on VDI

More and more customers see the benefits of server-hosted virtualization desktops (VDI). There are several important players in this market space, and from a marketing perspective these solutions have a lot in common.
BriForum 2012 London session video: Ultimate App-V 4.x Deployment

This session will be a technical low-down of how to create the best-of-breed baseline environment for an application virtualization deployment.
BriForum London 2012 session video: PowerShell: Notes From the Field

In this session, Brandon Shell will provide an in-depth look at PowerShell and discuss things you need to consider when setting up a production PowerShell environment to manage server-based computing environments.
BriForum 2012 London session video: Security in Client Hypervisors

Client hypervisor security is a complex topic that involves many different levels. With so much involved, you need to secure the hardware, the hypervisor, the storage, the virtual machine, and the user levels.
BriForum 2012 Chicago: 10 Cool Ways to Use NetScaler to Deliver Hosted Virtual Desktops

This session will give you a whole new appreciation for the role of "Application Delivery Controllers" in a desktop/application delivery system
BriForum 2012 Chicago: A Deep Dive into App-V 5.0

I fully expect that Microsoft will release us from most of the NDA info regarding future App-V capabilities before this conference happens.
BriForum 2012 Chicago: Getting VDI Functionality Without Actually Doing VDI

The Wanova portions of this session are incorrect, based on some misconceptions that I had. Unfortunately, Wanova/VMware employees were in attendance, but did not speak up during the session, so those inaccuracies weren't discovered until much later.
Demo video: Appthority's app reputation tool

Last summer I wrote about Appthority's app reputation tool (Appthority website). This is some seriously cool stuff, so this week I headed over to the Mac IT conference to get a demonstration on video.
An explanation of Microsoft App-V 4 versus 5

I am getting a lot of requests to help people understand the differences between the new Microsoft App-V 5 and the previous versions. Given the complete rewrite of the product, that is a multi-day conversation if you want all of the details.
I guess we’ll be adding “Award Winning” to all future projects…

As some of you may know, we here at TechTarget and BrianMadden.com do more than vent on the state of the desktop virtualization industry.
Citrix Synergy Barcelona video: A look at NVIDIA VGX K2 and when we'll see cloud-based GPUs

NVidia's Justin Boitano gives us an overview of what NVidia is doing with their VGX products that allow you to assign virtual machines to physical GPUs in a host. The VGX K2 was announced at Citrix Synergy, and is designed for engineers.
Explaining Citrix ShareFile Storage Zones, a video from Citrix Synergy Barcelona

In this video, Citrix's Bill Carovano explains how ShareFile Storage Zones is now released, following its announcement in May. What's new, though, is the Storage Zone Connector Citrix announce ShareFile Storage Zones back in May, and released it this past October during Citrix Synergy Barcelona.