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The Importance of User Virtualization in The Cloud


User Virtualization - Understanding Layers Posted September 4, 2011 by  | 5 comments
I presented a breakout session at VMworld 2011 on user virtualization and why it was important in the cloud.  I thought I would put a post together to summarize what I spoke about and to go over some of the key points of the presentation again… Understanding user virtualization… Before we get into why it read more →

In The Search For Simplicity, We End Up With Complexity…


citrixshareprice Posted August 31, 2011 by  | 2 comments
Its been a while since I wrote a blog post so I thought I would resume activities by looking at the latest Citrix development, namely their acquisition of RingCube and the impact that it has had on the desktop virtualization space.  It always amazes me the amount of activity that can come from what is read more →

User Installed Applications – Fact or Fiction?


browser-ie Posted June 30, 2010 by  | 31 comments
Its been a while now since the initial flurry of activity around the beginnings of the Desktop Virtualization space and today, many organizations are starting to piece together the puzzle in search of that alluring reduction in TCO.  What we are beginning to experience is the realization that additional software is needed to fill the read more →

The Beginning of the End for The VMware VDI Push?


Posted June 1, 2010 by  | 0 comments
In my opinion there have been some rather interesting developments over the past few weeks with relation to the VDI space, none more than VMware’s announcements that View is to ship late and more so, without its profile management technology. I always like to start my posts with a bit of digressing so here goes… read more →

Does Desktop Virtualization Hinder Security?


Posted March 9, 2010 by  | 0 comments
The title of this article may be a bit misleading as when I refer to security I’m actually talking about things like forensics.  Computer forensics have been very prevalent in IT for many years in some cases even providing the backbone for dismissal cases and law suits but with desktop virtualization now in the mix, read more →