Unidesk Blogs

Unidesk Fueling VDI Success in Germany
by Tom Rose 2 weeks ago (Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:54 AM) 0 comments, 37 views

We recently announced that The Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB) - one of Germany’s top federally funded science and engineering research institutions - is replacing all of its PCs with Unidesk virtual desktops accessed by VMware View. ATB wanted to make its desktops more secure, respond faster to researchers’ needs for different apps, and achieve a single, simpler...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer, Germany, vmware horizon view
Long-Time Citrix Partner MTM Now Offering Unidesk for VDI Management
by Tom Rose on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM 0 comments, 56 views

Today as Citrix Synergy 2013 kicks into full gear, we announced that MTM Technologies is a Unidesk Certified Solution Partner (UCSP), and is now offering the Unidesk virtual desktop management platform to its customers.

MTM is a long-time Citrix partner and one of the first IT solution providers to build a national practice around desktop virtualization. They know the VDI space as well as anyone....

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged citrix synergy, citrix xendesktop, MTM, UCSP, vmware horizon view
“Kia Kaha” Boston (Stay Strong)
by Tom Rose on Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM 0 comments, 111 views

It's not every day we get a package from New Zealand. But one arrived this week from one of our customers.

We opened it to find a treasure trove of Kiwi gifts, and this amazing letter to the company on top.

It brought smiles to all of our faces, and moved more than a few of us to tears, especially given how fresh the Boston Marathon bombing still is, and the follow-on tragedies in Texas and Bangladesh...

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Posted in Life @Unidesk
Tagged Boston, customers
Persistent VDI desktops: It’s not about how the desktop is built
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM 1 comment, 169 views

One of the common irks I have in talking to customers is that companies have used the words “persistent” and “non-persistent” to mean many different things. Often to confuse the customer or make it seem like they have something when they actually don’t (for example, “persistent” Linked Clone VMs from VMware).

This for me is an issue because persistence is about the user experience and...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged persistent virtual desktop
California DWR Implements 3,000 Unidesk Desktops Accessed by VMware Horizon View
by Tom Rose on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:47 PM 0 comments, 121 views

Today we announced that California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is building an internal Desktops-As-A-Service (DaaS) platform for its 3,000+ users on Unidesk and VMware Horizon View. The term DaaS is typically used to describe desktops that organizations "rent" from an external cloud service provider. Yet in this case, DWR uses DaaS to describe the desktops they are delivering from their internal...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer, daas, Desktops as a Service, vmware horizon view
Introducing the Unidesk Certified Professional!
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM 1 comment, 331 views

A few weeks ago Unidesk released its first, official, technical certification. It was not a surprise to those in our community because late last year we offered a “beta” test based on our Unidesk 1.6 software. Then I basically was on hold with a ton of other projects and certification got pushed back until this year. But as George Costanza says "I'm back baby!"

With the release of Unidesk 2.0...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged Unidesk Certification, Unidesk Certified Professional