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Cisco Desktop Transformation Webinar Survey Results

First Published on January 31, 2012 - 1,322 Views

I had a great time last week with Cisco doing the Desktop Transformation webinar, and an even better time afterwards talking to Cisco Distinguished Engineer Jim French about some of the more far-reaching opportunities that become possible when you start down a path to deploy VDI alongside Unified Communications. I’m looking forward to the day when I’ll be able to share at least some of the items we discussed.

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Cisco Opens 2012 Desktop Virtualization Push

First Published on January 23, 2012 - 2,859 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 Jim French and our Host and Director of Engineering, Jeff Platon; both of whom know far more about VXI than I’m ever likely to.

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2011 Review – Cisco

First Published on December 16, 2011 - 1,377 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 Citrix in October 2011.

More important than shipping a compelling hardware platform, Cisco is building out a services team capable of designing, deploying and supporting end-to-end environments using either VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop – As I highlighted yesterday there’s a lot more to building a VDI environment than end-point, server, and connection broker.

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Forget all you have been told – Cisco will fulfill the promise of VDI

First Published on October 20, 2011 - 23,887 Views

Last week I posed a simple question on Twitter

#VDI too costly? What would it take to make you reconsider? Double the number of sessions per server? Triple maybe?

Only to be reminded just how strongly sentiment had swung against VDI in favor of the other desktop virtualization alternatives. Going back to the first half of 2009, VDI sparked off an almost unprecedented wave of enthusiasm amongst desktop engineers worn down by the constant battle to retain control of the desktop looking for the magic bullet that could finally put to rest the nightmare of distributed desktop management.

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2010 in review

First Published on December 1, 2010

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. For the last couple of years I’ve thrown my credibility to the wind by offering a series of very doubtful predictions, but this year I’ve decided to take a look at the year’s events and record those that I think deserve the greatest attention.

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Cisco announces desktop ambitions

First Published on November 26, 2010 - 2,258 Views

Following the introduction of Cisco’s virtualization friendly UCS platform in March 2009, Cisco quickly established itself as a disruptive force in the data center. Then in June 2010 Cisco signaled its intention to move into the enterprise tablet market with the announcement of Cius. Given this background it was hardly a surprise to hear last week that Cisco has now turned its attention to the virtual desktop with the launch of the Cisco Virtualization eXperience Infrastructure (VXI).

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