Cisco Opens 2012 Desktop Virtualization Push

Published January 23, 2012 2,398 Views

  I’ve already said Cisco will be the company responsible for putting VDI on the map this year, which could explain why I’ve been asked to fill the role of “industry expert” in the first of Cisco’s 2012 desktop virtualization webcasts. Far more important than me though there’s the opportunity to listen to Cisco Distinguished Systems Engineer [...]

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Embarrassing, but valuable nevertheless

Published January 18, 2012 1,902 Views

Citrix screwed up recently with VDI-in-a-Box, creating a worldwide outage for every user of the product on January 1st. The proximate cause was a simple one,  theVirtual Desktop Agent used by VDI-in-a-Box had a .dll which expired at midnight December 31st 2011 and the software wasn’t patched to address this. Like I said – embarrassing. Now [...]

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Comparing Apples to Oranges

Published January 17, 2012 2,165 Views

Atlantis Computing caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it announced the $200 VDI desktop. Now I hope I don’t get any into any trouble with Atlantis for saying this, especially as I will be paying them a visit on Wednesday, but you don’t really get a virtual desktop for $200. Let’s be fair [...]

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2011 Review – Cisco

Published December 16, 2011 1,464 Views

As I hinted in yesterday’s post, Cisco is in my top vendors list for the second year running.  If you need the background on Cisco’s desktop virtualization ambitions, I covered the products and services in some depth here when Cisco first introduced VXI and more recently here when it announced its five-year technology partnership with [...]

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2011 review – Citrix

Published December 15, 2011 2,486 Views

Citrix had a busy year with notable acquisitions in the form of Kaviza, cloud.com and most recently App-DNA. Setting aside cloud.com as not being immediately relevant to desktop virtualization; in acquiring Kaviza and App-DNA, Citrix is directly addressing the two most important concerns that potential adopters of desktop virtualization have expressed – complexity and vendor maturity. Joe Onisick [...]

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2011 Review

Published December 12, 2011 1,472 Views

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time for gifting, gluttony, and awkward embraces from your over-familiar uncle Ted. Festivities and restraining orders aside, at this time of year it’s only fit and proper to have a post detailing the year in review or offering a list of predictions for the coming year. You can [...]

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