Unidesk Blogs

Long-Time Citrix Partner MTM Now Offering Unidesk for VDI Management
by Tom Rose 1 day ago (Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM) 0 comments, 8 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....

View
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 1 week ago (Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM) 0 comments, 65 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...

View
Posted in Life @Unidesk
Tagged Boston, customers
Persistent VDI desktops: It’s not about how the desktop is built
by Ron Oglesby 2 weeks ago (Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM) 1 comment, 103 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...

View
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, 88 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...

View
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, 243 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...

View
Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged Unidesk Certification, Unidesk Certified Professional
Unidesk’s view on VMware Horizon View and Horizon Mirage
by Tom Rose on Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM 0 comments, 740 views

VMware took the next step in its well-received End User Computing (EUC) strategy with the launch of Horizon Suite at Partner Exchange 2013. The suite bundles together three products - Horizon View, Horizon Mirage, and Horizon Workspace. With VMware positioning Mirage as layering technology, some have asked what this means for Unidesk. Here are the 3 reasons Unidesk continues to be essential for VMware...

View
Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged desktop layering, horizon, Mirage, vmware view, wanova