Why IT Architecture sucks in many Corporate Environments
Over the last years I had the opportunity to visit many corporate customers and have deep technical conversations with them, mostly around their existing or future terminal server, Citrix and...
View ArticleAre Pure Virtual Desktops only Successful in Virtual Markets?
Since almost two weeks, Shawn Bass and I teach Advanced Citrix Training Classes and present at Geek Speak Events in Norway and France. We had an audience of almost 30 training class students and 60+...
View ArticleWindows Desktop Virtualization Seminar
At the beginning of this year I got into touch with some folks from SearchDatacenter.de, a website provided by TechTarget. They asked me if I wanted to deliver a vendor-independent one-day seminar...
View ArticleVDI versus Reality
I have a long history in the remote desktop and remote application market, so for obvious reasons I like the notion of virtual desktops. But when creating slideware for a series of one-day TechTarget...
View ArticleRemoteFX Backgrounder
Over the next weeks, Shawn Bass and I will be presenting our latest results on comparing remoting protocols at different events and conferences, such as BriForum and Microsoft TechEd. One of the...
View ArticleVDI in the Cloud at HP Discover 2011
A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend HP Discover 2011 in Vienna. AppSense was one of the exhibitors there and I presented our sponsor session at day 1. It was my first time at Discover...
View ArticleThe VDI Party is Over
When looking through some of the documents I have collected over the last years, I found an interesting statement made by Yankee Group. Their prediction was that VDI will get mainstream in 2009. Well,...
View ArticleWhy Desktop Virtualization
At one of the virtualization conferences where I presented a breakout session, I was asked to join a couple of other speakers for a panel discussion. To my big surprise, the conversation got sort of...
View ArticleGPU Accelerated VDI
A little while ago, VDI expert and community fellow Ruben Spruijt (@rspruijt) asked Shawn Bass (@shawnbass) and me if we want to join him to write a new “smackdown” whitepaper on hardware accelerated...
View ArticleIs There a Microsoft “Mobile First, Cloud First” Strategy for VDI?
Since Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO, “mobile first, cloud first” is the new mantra. But what about Windows desktops and applications delivered from the cloud? If you want to establish an...
View ArticleIs Layering the Future of User Profile Management
This article has been in my pipeline for quite a while, and after talking to a number of subject matter experts I thought that now is the time to finally publish it: When dealing with virtual Windows...
View ArticleAn Insider’s Guide to Desktop Virtualization on Channel 9
On May 7, Ruben Spruijt and I delivered our breakout session titled “An Insider’s Guide to Desktop Virtualization” at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago. Find an overview of the content in a previous blog...
View ArticleJoint Webinar with FSLogix and deviceTRUST
On November 16, I had the great pleasure to moderate a joint webinar with FSLogix and deviceTRUST. I like both companies and their products very much as you can see from previous articles (FSLogix,...
View ArticleUsing FSLogix Office 365 Container for Outlook Search in Non-Persistent RDS...
When Outlook is running in cached Exchange mode, Outlook data is stored in user-specific .OST files. These .OST files must follow the users as they roam from host to host. Windows Search Service...
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