Unidesk Blogs

Dell Chooses Unidesk for VDI Management
by Tom Rose about 1 week ago (Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:00 AM) 0 comments, 428 views

Today is a landmark day for Unidesk. Dell announced they are leveraging Unidesk desktop layering technology as the management component for Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Enterprise. Dell has 3 DVS flavors – DVS Simplified (Citrix VDI-in-a-Box) for basic, one-size-fits-all desktops; DVS Simplified DaaS (Desktone) for cloud-hosted desktops as a service; and DVS Enterprise, which combines...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged dell dvs
Unidesk Extends VMware View 5.1, Welcomes More Joint Customers
by Tom Rose about 2 weeks ago (Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:18 PM) 0 comments, 51 views

Unidesk was asked by VMware to participate in their big End User Computing (EUC) launch this week, and we were happy to oblige! Unidesk is a perfect fit for VMware’s 3 EUC Platform Pillars: Simplify, Manage, Connect, and we’re the ideal VMware View™ partner for Phase 1 of the EUC Customer Journey – “Improve What You Have Now.” Windows will be around a long time, and the opportunity to ...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged vmware view
Unidesk Does It Again – in San Jose, CA
by Amy Payne on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM 0 comments, 99 views

It was such a great experience the first time around – we had to do it again! Only this time in San Jose, CA. That’s right - we hosted our second user group last week on Thursday, April 26th at The Fairmont, San Jose. With very similar turnout numbers as the Ohio User group last month, we had 27 Unidesk users from 16 unique organizations attend the session.

The agenda was also very similar to...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged unidesk user group
In the Company of Heroes
by Tom Rose on Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:51 PM 0 comments, 147 views

The State of Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (Ohio DODD) is one Unidesk customer that's changing the world for the better. We couldn't be more admiring of the people we've come to know in the IT department there. The industry is starting to take notice, too. Ohio DODD was just named a 2012 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate for their VDI project based on Unidesk and VMware View. This...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged computerworld, Ohio DODD
Two Scripts to Cheaply Capture Important Information from Your Desktops
by Rob Zylowski on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM 0 comments, 268 views

There are lots of products out there that help to manage desktops. These products can provide really important information including performance data, hardware and software inventory, as well as alerting for low disk, or a runaway processes. In a VDI environment running on vSphere you will already have much of this information from vSphere itself. VDI desktops are all standard for hardware so you ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged scripts
First Unidesk User Group Ever – Check!
by Amy Payne on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM 0 comments, 349 views

Last week on March 8th, in Columbus Ohio, Unidesk hosted its first EVER User Group. With such a concentration of customers located in Columbus (who knew this Ohio city would be such a hotbed for VDI), we decided to host the user group there and very graciously, our customer at the Ohio State Department of Developmental Disabilities (OH DODD) offered up their office space. The team flew in the day ...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged unidesk user group