Desktop Virtualization News, Highlights and Updates
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 2798 views | 29 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 gaps in technology not current catered for by the VDI vendors whether this be security, personalization, management or application provisioning which is further leading to confusion. We are entering a space where there is no reference architecture, no early groups who walked the walk and know the mistakes and no firm recommendations as to exactly what is needed – this is new territory for many.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 121 views | 0 comments
Simon Rust, VP of Technology at AppSense has written an article for Virtual Strategy Magazine; focusing on how User Virtualization solutions are key to the adoption of desktop virtualization technologies in enterprise environments.
Friday, June 04, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 112 views | 0 comments
During the busy days that was the Citrix Synergy in San Francisco, David Marshall from InfoWorld wanted to see what all the fuss about AppSense, our Citrix Ready Solution of the Year award and AppSense User Virtualization Solutions were all about. David spent time with AppSense VP of Technology – Simon Rust – and has since written an article based on his findings..
Friday, June 04, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 136 views | 0 comments
AppSense VP of Strategy Martin Ingram has written an article about mobile computing and the introduction of client hypervisors. He examines the pro’s and con’s of the client side hypervisor, and the challenges we may be faced with as part of adoption and implementation…
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 263 views | 0 comments
Andrew Wood (Twitter @gilwood_cs) has written a very interesting article over on VirtualizationPractice.com, discussing whether ‘persona management’ (and ‘profile’ management) technology is ‘user environment management’ by another name?
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 120 views | 0 comments
Leading Norwegian Citrix and AppSense Distributor, Commaxx, have for years hosted an event to update reseller partners and end users on progressions and best practices within the virtualization space. This year, as desktop virtualization continues to take the world by storm, the event is going on the road to accommodate more people than ever before.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 170 views | 0 comments
We recently completed a pretty exhausting press tour in New York, Boston and San Francisco. One of the sessions in Boston was with Network World, where our Martin Ingram, VP of Strategy, recorded a video piece on user virtualization
Monday, March 22, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 173 views | 0 comments
Well, they do say good news comes in 3’s. And to that avail, following on from my two previous blog posts this morning detailing articles containing references to AppSense in relation to the adoption of desktop virtualization, skimming through my Google Alerts and I have just found a third separate publication – this time on Reseller News in the article ‘Virtualization: from Server and Desktop to the Network’
Monday, March 22, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 180 views | 0 comments
Further to my previous blog post (AppSense included in an article by IDC on why the ‘time is right to consider VDI and that is marries one of our predictions for desktop virtualization in 2010), AppSense is also referenced in a separate article, this time by Dan Kusnetzky on ZDnet – ‘Why all the activity centering on client-side virtualization’
Monday, March 22, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 160 views | 0 comments
Jon Dix has just published an article at IDC News Service discussing why the ‘time is right to consider VDI’. Jon highlights some of the options and alternatives available in enabling the adoption of desktop virtualization, including solutions from Citrix, Wyse and AppSense as part of the options on offer.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 1288 views | 16 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, has this been considered and has the landscape changed?
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 133 views | 0 comments
Martin Ingram, VP of Strategy at AppSense has written an article for ITBusinessEdge.com titled ‘Virtual Desktops and Flying Cars’.
In this article, Martin looks at predictions made in the past, predictions which at the time, sounded reasonable and achievable, but somehow never came true. Martin then compares these to the predictions we/the industry is making about Desktop Virtualization adoption, the challenges faced and just how true or possible these predictions are.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 3356 views | 8 comments
Now that the dust is settling and the tweets are dying down about the VMware acquisition of RTO I thought that I would put a little of my perspective on how the deal affects the bigger organizations such as RES Software and AppSense. As someone who has firsthand experience of dealing with competition in the personalization space, I will try and give an honest idea of how this move affects the mentioned organizations and what’s next for them.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 175 views | 0 comments
Congratulations to all at RTO software – Vmware has just announced that they have bought three of their products for incorporation into View. RTO goes forward with Tscale, their performance management product and they will presumably continue to innovate with more products in the future.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 552 views | 3 comments
On February 22nd 2010, VMware acquired certain assets of RTO Software, namely their Virtual Profiles technology as well PinPoint and Discover products. The organization goes on to mention that the R and D efforts of RTO will now be merged into those of VMware.
A PDF document on the VMware website gives answers to various questions such as those around support, the future of the product and how the software will be used.
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 215 views | 0 comments
As technologies continue to evolve, so does the terminology we use to refer to and describe them. As many of us have experienced, terminology can be a minefield, with many discussions based on a difference of opinion on terms, rather than on what the term actually means. For example, ‘VDI’ was first coined to describe an instance of a virtual desktop session running on a server. However most people today use VDI in reference to a broader set of desktop delivery mechanisms; encompassing SBC, streamed apps, provisioned OS, client hosted desktops etc.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 156 views | 0 comments
As you may be aware, the UK has recently been subject to some of the coldest weather and heaviest snowfall we have experienced in many year.. while it is not a lot snow compared to what other countries experience, our lack of resources available to clear to snow from the roads has confined thousands and thousands of people to their house, including myself.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Michael Mills | 1330 views | 2 comments
What do you need to do before you deploy a desktop virtualizaiton solution?
Having had the opportunity to architect a few VDI, Desktop Virtualization, Alternative Desktop, or whatever you choose to call it, solutions over the last few years I thought I would put together a list of the top things that need to be done in order to be successful with a VDI rollout. Note, I am assuming that business justification and need has already been established so no comments about whether or not anyone actually needs or should deploy a desktop virtualization solution.
Monday, January 04, 2010 by Gareth Kitson | 354 views | 0 comments
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Saturday, January 02, 2010 by Eric S. Perkins | 1463 views | 11 comments
VDI what is the definition? Citrix? VMware? Since customers are doing POC's and buying basically everything is VDI now. XenApp yep VDI.. XenDesktop yep VDI... View VDI... Microsoft RDS....Leostream.... VDI.... ETC!!! Marketing at it's best. My second choice for the title would have been "VDI: an IT stimulus package"
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