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UPDATED May 26 – New links included Mike Brennan’s latest blog going into the testing and details of the CVD - http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=114587 Scaling CVD for XenDesktop and EMC on Cisco <—-NEWEST Version of the paper!!!! Back a few months ago I shared about the joint reference architecture that was able to boot and login 5000 users in 30 minutes. Using the Cisco UCS runn...

The recent rumors of Microsoft working on a hosted virtual desktop (DaaS) solution to add to their cloud services offering may actually end up being one of the most viable options for organizations who already rely heavily on Microsoft infrastructure to run their business. Having all of your core services being delivered from a single location and provider could ease the operational concerns ...

And now to their portfolio, Atlantis Computing add ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0. Some early stability issues aside, Atlantis have developed a strong and supportive market and expanded on it. What is in this release? If 2013 is to be the year of VDI - how does Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 help? Importantly, will Atlantis Computing's ILIO Persistent VDI change the game?Related Posts:Transforming...

Before you even get to the entertaining "Citrix vs VMware vs Other" quasi-religious debate, there will be a VDI vs RDSH altercation. It can altercate for days. Ultimately, no business question gets asked, nor decision made, as technical stags lock antlers. Related Posts:AppSense Live in the Now: DesktopNow Now More Than Just a…Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 – VDI Game Changer?Un...

VMware took one small step towards the realization of its desktop strategy with the launch of Horizon Suite yesterday, but failed to to make a giant leap.Related Posts:A Look At The HorizonVMware’s Roadmap to the post-PC FutureNews: VMware Welcomes Wanova – Is it a Mirage –…VMware Advances End User Computing Vision with View, HorizonVMworld 2012 – Horizon Mobile (A...

Now, this isn't a question of how many times can I get now in the title in some sort of unusual Now Bingo game. In January, AppSense, quietly went about re-branding its Management Suite (consisting of Management Center, Application Manager, Environment Manager and Performance Manager) as AppSense DesktopNow although it's all official now.Related Posts:VDI vs RDSH: Squabbling Siblings or Embattl...

Cisco + EMC + VMware + Citrix goodness.If you are working on deploying XenDesktop on VMware (the best way to do XenDesktop). Check out this article and Cisco Validated Design. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/citrix_emc_ucs_scaleVDI.pdf http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/zero-to-5000-citrix-vdi-users-logged-in-and-working-in-just-30-minutes/Give it a read and se...

We've discussed the fact that VDI appliance makers were making good progress simplifying adoption of a virtual desktop infrastructure. An appliance-based route to market can be seen as win-win: being designed both to reduce cost and complexity of implementation (for the customer) and shorten sales cycles (for the vendor). So goes the theory. To understand this theory further one VDI appliance v...

Heterogeneous virtualization has been a hot topic among clients and last week at the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas I presented a session on the subject. During the session, I polled the audience on their heterogeneous virtualization plans. Fifty participants responded to each polling question. The first question I asked was about the current hypervisors that were deployed (note th...

At the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas last week I asked several polling questions regarding desktop virtualization adoption plans and trends, and thought that they were worth sharing. Note that the poll was taken in my session on “Desktop Virtualization: Tales from the Trenches,” so the audience was already at least considering the technology. The first question I asked was reg...

Citrix yesterday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zenprise, a leading innovator in mobile device management (MDM).News: Citrix to get Zenier in 2013: Acquires MDM Specialist Zenprise|The Virtualization Practice

Back by popular demand, the Enterprise Hypervisor feature comparison. After the release of our latest comparison I’ve received a lot of requests to include RedHat’s RHEV to the comparison. Although I’ve never encountered it in enterprise environments, I decided to add it as a service to our readers. I based the RedHat features on their [...]

How does Project Avalon's Excalibur component focus on making a new FlexCast platform and deliver applications beyond the PC. How does Project Avalon's Merlin component deliver Self-service provision, management and service orchestration. Will these components deliver Windows apps and desktops as a true cloud service and can these services be compare to VMware's Horizon?Project Avalon: Will Citr...

Desktop Virtualization for all – technical overview There is a new Free paper to download from the free section of my website. The paper discuss the possibilities beyond classic VDI solutions. How to deliver desktops another way, the way of Citrix® FlexCast™ delivery technology. The white paper comes from Citrix and shows that other methods to access desktop in a datacenter exists. M...

It's getting closer to that time of year, when NetApp's partners, pre- and post-sales engineers, and other employees gather for our annual technical conference, Insight. Last year the conference was held about 2 months after I joined NetApp, so I didn't have the opportunity to attend. This year is a different story. Not only will I be attending, but I'll be co-presenting a technical session, wit...

I suggested that the best thing for Dell to do would be to sell it to VMware or Teradici. Dell vWorkspace is back, and I couldn't be happier to be wrong.Quest vWorkspace Returns|The Virtualization Practice

As desktop virtualization technologies evolve, Desktop-Management-as-a-Service may supersede DaaS as the preferred solution for many small businesses.Desktop Management as a Service|The Virtualization Practice

Both Microsoft and VMware have revamped their product suites and therefore their licensing once more and how you buy will dictate how you license (as always). It has taken a bit of time for all the information to percolate through to each corporate site and all the issues to be addressed. As we did before, let us look at licensing. We will look at first the old model of Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere...

Two weeks ago VMware released the new version of their vSphere hypervisor, so it’s time to update our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. It very impressive to see how quick VMware has reacted to the Hyper-V 3 announcements and has taken most of the wind out of the Microsoft sails. I hope you find the new Enterprise [...] by Erik Scholten

The growing availability of prepackaged appliances is making VDI increasingly attractive for customers who value the benefits of VDI. It is not only customers that benefit from this increased simplicity, smaller system integrators lack the appropriate skills to size and sell complex in VDI infrastructure environments can take advantage of these appliance-based solutions to compete with larger sy...

VMware vSphere is a truly remarkable product that has redefined the idea of “unprecedented disruption” in the IT infrastructure market. On a feature basis, vSphere 5 remains a generation ahead of competing offerings from Microsoft, Citrix, and others, and VMware is in an excellent position to retain and grow this position. But no company is invincible, and VMware’s Achilles Hee...

Last week's inaugural board meeting of the new OpenStack Foundation signaled a change in the organization as Rackspace the driving force behind OpenStack handed control to the newly formed board. Allen Clark director of SUSE was appointed chairman, with Lew Tucker Cisco's VP and CTO of cloud joining the board as Vice Chairman. Members of the OpenStack community who had voiced concerns that OpenS...

In the face of declining PC revenues and slowing storage sales VMworld San Francisco saw the launch of two new Wyse P Class Zero Clients, two new EqualLogic hybrid storage arrays and three new reference architectures optimized for VMware View, signaling a clear intent from Dell that it is getting serious about VDI.VMworld 2012: Dell grows VDI Services|The Virtualization Practice

Microsoft RDSH service grows ever more feature rich, Citrix XenApp is still a de facto standard although there are many RDSH tools available today. The goal for vendors is to make the delivery of applications and workspaces simple and efficient - in terms of time and resources. To integrate VDI and RDSH together and blend those with "traditional" solutions. As of today, VMware only VDI. RDSH wo...

VDI Security offers little security over well managed standard desktops and can expose more security risks: what is the impact of this?VDI Security – better than physical desktops?|The Virtualization Practice Related posts: News: Akamai Introduces Managed Internet Service for Delivery of Virtualized Applications and Desktops Licensing VDI for Microsoft Desktops – is it rocket science...