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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Intel Acquires Neocleus: cloak and dagger, or bait and switch?
Intel’s buyout of Neocleus two weeks ago is no longer breaking news, in fact given that Intel appears to be going out of its way to avoid communicating information about its plans for Neocleus employees and intellectual property, it’s hardly news at all. It’s tempting to label Intel’s actions to have Chad Jones’ (the now presumably former VP of product management at Neocleus) blog post on the deal deleted as being naïve, paranoid, or both.
Further wild speculation about Intel’s Sandy Bridge
I was talking to Edward Haletky of The Virtualization Practice this afternoon and the topic of GPUs and desktop virtualization came up. I wondered what the likelihood might be of a hardware vendor putting high end Sandy Bridge processors in a high-density PC blade format and using them to host a handful of virtual desktop sessions running over Microsoft’s Remote FX display protocol.
Intel gives boost to Citrix XenClient
When compared to more established client hypervisor vendor Virtual Computer, the biggest criticism leveled against Citrix XenClient has been its very limited hardware compatibility list. With just a dozen or so laptops and two desktop PCs on the list of supported devices for the RC 2 release Citrix still has a lot of work to do.
Citrix’s initial focus with XenClient has been based on laptops partly out of business focus and partly out of necessity. One of the biggest problems that Citrix faces in creating a half decent hardware compatibility list is the time and cost of hardware driver development. But if you break apart a laptop (at least an enterprise laptop) you find remarkably little internal variation. Alongside the almost inevitable Intel CPU, will lie an Intel integrated GPU and more than likely is not an Intel Centrino or Broadcom wi-fi chipset. This becomes very obvious when you take a look at the current HCL which has today only two supported GPUs and a handful of closely related to wi-fi chipsets.
Events
The BrightTalk Next Generation Desktop Summit
VDI implementation makes a lot of sense for many organizations wanting to provide a secure and standard desktop for employees. But compared to other virtualization technologies, few organizations are deploying it. Why? Join this panel as they discuss this question, what VDI is lacking and what needs to happen in order for businesses to adopt it.
The Big BYOD Debate
Smartphones and tablets remain ever-prevalent, and the trend of employees using these devices for business purposes, whether sanctioned or unsanctioned, is on the rise. So Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, and the way enterprise IT departments should handle them, is a topic that generates a lot of discussion and controversy. 
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Cisco Desktop Transformation
