Entries Tagged as 'Under the Hood'

A Video Deep Dive into Wanova Mirage with Brian Madden.


posted by , June 11th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Desktop Virtualization and Storage: Part 2


posted by , May 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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So, You’re Skipping Vista… Mirage can aid Windows 7 Migration


posted by , May 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

If you’re like 90% of the companies we talk to, you’re most likely trying to figure out how to migrate 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, [...]

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Examining the Cost of Storage for VDI – Part 1


posted by , March 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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