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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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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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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Brian Madden – in his typical, non-controversial way – recently posted that “everyone who needs VDI already has it.” He has a point. The reality is that VDI is constrained in its deployment because it was not built to address the needs of remote and mobile users. Existing approaches have forced compromises: server-based solutions provide [...]

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I had an opportunity to present at a virtualization user group in Montreal this week, and talk with many of the attendees at length. One theme came across loud and clear – after successful deployments of server virtualization, customers are now fully turning their attention to desktop virtualization. Several of the attendees mentioned that they [...]

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TechTarget’s SearchVirtualDesktop.com recently published the results of a survey that caught our attention. The survey supports the need for a new approach if desktop virtualization is ever going to realize wide acceptance in enterprise environments.
The survey asked exactly the right questions and identifies key pain points that are preventing desktop virtualization from really taking off. [...]

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News about desktop virtualization seems to be flowing fast and furious these days. That doesn’t surprise us. Desktop virtualization is where the action is and Wanova is certainly happy to be in the scrum.
A recent article discussed an upcoming announcement about the desktop virtualization ecosystem. Perhaps we’re going to hear about all the technology partners [...]

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A vendor recently touted their type-1 client hypervisor as the “killer app” for Windows 7 and desktop virtualization adoption. Client hypervisors are great. I get it. You can run XP side-by-side with Win 7. You can have a personal desktop completely separate from your corporate desktop. But how exactly does that dramatically simplify management? A [...]

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