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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, 170 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
Introducing the Unidesk Certified Professional!
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM 1 comment, 332 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
ThinApp and 64-bit OS/Apps. No, it does not work.
by Ron Oglesby on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:40 AM 0 comments, 588 views

Got off a demo with a potential partner the other day and one of the guys on the call said:

"Hey, this is pretty cool, at least you guys can handle 64-bit apps"

For a second I was stumped. What was he talking about? I mean, I remember back in like 2009/2010 ThinApp couldn't capture 64-bit apps, but they must have "fixed" that by now, right?

So I do a quick search, while still on the call and found...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged 64-bit Applications, application virtualization
Complications of App Virtualization – Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
by Ron Oglesby on Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:01 PM 0 comments, 299 views

Recently I was on a call with our CTO Chris Midgley who introduced a new slide to explain the difference between Unidesk layering and application virtualization with regards to simplicity. The slide was so simple in explaining the core problem with app-virt that I just needed to post it here and give you my take on WHY this problem exists.

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My first blog post back in 2009 here at Unidesk...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged application delivery, application isolation, application layering, application packaging, application virtualization
Why Unidesk?
by Ron Oglesby on Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:00 AM 3 comments, 1141 views

What is it about Unidesk that makes customers want to do webinars and stand in a booth at VMworld for hours describing the product to other customers? Why did I come to Unidesk 3+ years ago before we even had a product announced? (Lots of people in the industry asked that question) Why would anyone build a technology and try to compete with the big guys in the Personalization, Application or OS management...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged unidesk, virtual desktop management
Application Repair in Unidesk 2.0
by Ron Oglesby on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM 2 comments, 625 views

After my previous blog post about desktop personalization layer backup and repair I wanted to touch on a more surgical repair feature that is often overlooked in Unidesk: our ability to repair single application layers in individual desktops.

To understand how we do this we have to start with an explanation of how an application "gets broken". Let's assume your user has done something to corrupt ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged application repair, desktop repair, Unidesk 2.0