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VDI Customer Stories from the New England VMUG Winter Warmer 2012
by Andrew Nadeau on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM 0 comments, 44 views

Another year, another New England VMUG at Gillette Stadium. Last year the mood at Gillette was a little different. The Patriots were coming off of a shellacking from their rivals the New York Jets. This year the atmosphere was dramatically different. The Patriots had just put an end to Tebow-mania with a defeat over the Denver Broncos and were set to play the Baltimore Ravens at home for the AFC Championship...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged new england vmug
Unidesk Adopts a Northborough Family for the Holidays
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:54 AM 0 comments, 373 views

This year Unidesk is going to make Christmas very special for a local family that has fallen on tough times. In the spirit of giving, we adopted a family in Northborough for the holiday season.  Everyone in the company pitched in to buy gifts on the family’s wish list. Through the generosity of everyone, we were able to buy every gift on their list as well as wrapping paper and $400 in gift...

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Posted in Life @Unidesk
Tagged helping hands, unidesk culture, unidesk culture
How to Operationalize Desktop Support with Unidesk Desktop Management for VDI
by Andrew Nadeau on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:30 AM 0 comments, 425 views

How does a city with 1,300 user accounts and 800 desktops streamline their service desk by moving to virtual desktops?

With a majority of their desktops over five years old and an understaffed service desk, this was exactly the question that James Hettrick, Technical Services Manager at City of Kent set out to answer.

Some of the key insight James Hettrick shared during the webinar included how ...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged city of kent, customer webinar
Profiling Customer Success: City of Kent's path to 800 desktops virtualized
by Andrew Nadeau on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM 0 comments, 322 views

Next week, another Unidesk customer joins us on a live interactive webinar to discuss their VDI project. On Wednesday, November 16th at 2:00 PM ET James Hettrick, Technical Services Manager at City of Kent, WA, will talk about how the combination of Unidesk desktop management software for VDI and Pano Logic Zero Clients are allowing the city to virtualize 800 desktops, streamline their desktop operations...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged city of kent, customer webinar
A Wild October: Extreme Heat, Record Snowfall, and Helping Hands
by Andrew Nadeau on Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:00 PM 0 comments, 428 views

We are a pretty lucky group of people here at Unidesk. We have well-paying jobs that give us the ability to not have to worry about some of the basics in life – a roof over our heads, food on the table, heat, warm clothes, clean water, etc. Sometimes it is easy to take all that we have been afforded for granted, so a few times a year we come together as a company to give back to the community and...

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Posted in Life @Unidesk
Tagged helping hands, unidesk culture
Out on a Limb with Virtual Desktops – What’s in it for You?
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM 0 comments, 539 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 2 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

There’s no question that virtual desktops can deliver a lot of advantages to those in charge of managing IT on campus. We’re certainly seeing our share of value here at Menlo College, where we’re reducing the operational costs of desktop...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education