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by Tom Rose about 6 days ago (Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:20 PM) 0 comments, 47 views

It’s exciting when a trickle starts to become a trend. In December we announced that Morehead Memorial Hospital selected Unidesk to simplify and expand its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Today, we announced OhioHealth has selected Unidesk as the provisioning and management foundation for its 1,000 user VDI initiative.

OhioHealth is a big name in healthcare. They’ve been named to FORTUNE...

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by Tom Rose on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM 2 comments, 282 views

Unidesk is starting to be adopted in healthcare because VDI admins are finding it easier to package and deliver apps with our layering technology than with app virtualization. I was just at a Boston-area hospital that’s implementing virtual desktops for a new wing. They don’t know if they’re going with Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View yet, but they’ve already purchased Unidesk as their desktop...

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by Tom Rose on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:08 PM 0 comments, 480 views

We just aired the third and final webinar in our Fall 2011 "VDI in Education" webinar series, highlighting desktop virtualization deployments at University of Connecticut, Southwestern Michigan College, and William Woods University. Over 600 people registered to hear the VDI project leads at these schools talk about their technology choices, lessons learned, and benefits realized. That 600+ registered...

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by Tom Rose on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM 0 comments, 830 views

Yesterday, I blogged about our customers’ participation in the Unidesk booth at VMworld 2011, and the broad vendor ecosystem represented by their VDI implementations. But it wasn’t all work and no play. Come on, we were in Las Vegas, after all!

Tuesday night, we held our first customer appreciation dinner at Voodoo Steak, high atop the Rio hotel and casino.

After enjoying the great view of...

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by Tom Rose on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM 1 comment, 791 views

Re-learned a rookie lesson on the way home from VMworld 2011 Las Vegas: don’t take a nap before getting on a red-eye - you won’t sleep on the plane. But it did give me the chance to blog Unidesk’s experience and thank 10 of our customers for helping staff our booth!

This was our second year sponsoring VMworld. Last year at VMworld 2010, we had just released Unidesk 1.0, and many IT organizations...

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by Tom Rose on Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM 0 comments, 1864 views

Raechelle Clemmons, CIO at Unidesk customer Menlo College, just published a new blog titled "Virtual Desktops: Persistent, Non-Persistent, or…Both?" where she did a great job explaining why an analysis of use cases should be Step #1 in VDI design.

Menlo College is using the combination of VMware View and Unidesk to deploy a mix of persistent desktops (desktops that keep all user customizations through...

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