So, I boot up my computer yesterday evening at home. Everything is working fine. Half an hour later, I come back, and realize my 9 month old son (the one with an uncanny ability to find keyboard shortcuts I never knew existed) has been banging away on the keyboard. There are dozens of windows open, [...]

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I had an opportunity to attend BriForum in Chicago several weeks ago (and belatedly found a few minutes to write about it.) There were some really excellent sessions by Shawn Bass, Ruben Spruijt, and many others. In almost every session I attended, the speakers or the attendees discussed how to deal with the complexity [...]

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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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A few weeks ago, we reviewed a few of the key storage considerations necessary for a VDI implementation (and, more specifically, why Wanova Mirage’s distributed architecture doesn’t need high performance storage networks or heavy server farms.) But there’s another aspect to storage efficiency that is important to consider: data redundancy. While image management can reduce [...]

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If you’re like 90% of the companies we talk to, you’re most likely trying to figure out how to move thousands of PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7. Any way you slice it, the scenario is not pretty – especially if you have a large percentage of remote and mobile end users.
In fact, the [...]

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Aloha! I was able to duck away for a short holiday in beautiful Kauai. While I was out of the office, our IT folks wanted to do some maintenance on my PC, so I was planning to bring only my Mac on my trip. This gave me a great opportunity to put Wanova Mirage into [...]

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For all the benefits desktop virtualization offers for certain applications, there is an ongoing discussion around the back end storage requirements – and the potential costs. Ruben Spruijt penned a lengthy tome about it back in December, and with Win 7, we can be sure that file and applications sizes are not going to be [...]

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Despite the economic downturn, 2009 was a year of epic acquisitions. Oracle bought Sun. Xerox bought ACS. EMC bought Data Domain. But after the papers are signed, the press conferences are held and the lawyers are paid, who is left to handle the massive integration of employees? IT.
Whether the acquisition is small or record-setting, the [...]

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In his recent article on The Challenges of Desktop Virtualization, Daniel Feller comments on how difficult it can be to support non-IT-delivered applications, which can proliferate into the tens of thousands, in virtualized desktop environments. He recommends doing a multi-level assessment to try to figure out which applications are in use, and their appropriate delivery [...]

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