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VDI here, there and everywhere ... or, how to deliver VDI to branch offices
by Chris Midgley on Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:13 AM 0 comments, 1444 views

There are many reasons why people find VDI an attractive alternative to traditional physical desktops and laptops.  One I hear of frequently is to improve the ability to manage desktops located in branch offices.  By having the desktop run in the data center (and using a protocol to deliver the experience to the user), it is easier to provision, patch and secure it.  And, a great side...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged branch office, cachecloud, protocol, replication
Is deduplication an oxymoron? It is with VDI!
by Chris Midgley on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:24 AM 0 comments, 1770 views

I’ve been thinking about deduplication recently. The very name strikes me as odd. De-duplication. Do something so that we can undo it. Create duplication, and then undo the duplication. Does that make deduplication an oxymoron? Here's what my dictionary says:

ox•y•mo•ron (noun) a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction to an incongruous, seemingly self...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged cachecloud, composite virtualization, desktop layering, storage deduplication
Unidesk announces CacheCloud patent filing
by Tom Rose on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM 0 comments, 1094 views

Last April, we announced our first patent filing on Unidesk Composite VirtualizationTM technology - our unique method of separating desktops into discrete layers (we call them containers) that can be independently provisioned, patched, and dynamically recomposed. By combining the freshest operating system and application layers controlled by IT with each user's own applications, profile settings, ...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged cachecloud