Brian Madden wrote a blog post today revisiting his prediction of two years ago that VDI would be ready for wholesale deployment by now, and was contingent on solving four key problem areas.

Single disk image for many users
Remote display protocols that are indistinguishable from local
Local / offline VDI
Broader compatibility for app virtualization

I (of course) was [...]

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Last week, we had a chance to go visit Brian Madden at the TechTarget offices in San Francisco. Ady, our director of product management, and I were planning to do a tag team demo of Wanova Mirage. Fortunately, we are flexible. Brian indicated that he would prefer us marketing types stay away from the camera, [...]

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In the nicely written article, “’Zero clients’ promise to replace fat clients but have downsides,” Bridget Botelho points out that while Zero clients promise to improve the manageability and reduce cost for IT, they also have some significant disadvantages. Most notably, she refers to user-experience demands that are in direct conflict with this approach. Tim [...]

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