Unidesk Blogs

Blogs tagged "profile management"

Unidesk and AppSense Form Technology Alliance
by Tom Rose on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM 0 comments, 202 views

Unidesk made lots of news at VMware Partner Exchange 2013 this week. One item that drew attention was our press release announcing our technology alliance with AppSense. It surprised some who thought Unidesk and AppSense were competitors. One Gartner analyst even tweeted "AppSense and Unidesk partners? Co-opetition at its best!"

That presumption probably stems from Unidesk's ability to create persistent...

View
Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged appsense, competitors, profile management, user virtualization
Thanks to Our VDI Customers for an Awesome VMworld!
by Tom Rose on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM 1 comment, 1045 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...

View
Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customers, desktop layering, profile management, vmware view, vmworld
The broken VDI promise
by Chris Midgley on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM 0 comments, 2036 views

There are many good reasons to consider virtualizing your desktops – but one of the most compelling is how it will revolutionize desktop management.  Just think of it – by separating the operating system, applications and user persona into individually manageable layers, you can easily install, configure, secure, and patch just one image and deploy to scads of desktops knowing that every ...

View
Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged application virtualization, image management, profile management
How is Unidesk different than...?
by Chris Midgley on Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:33 PM 1 comment, 2495 views

Maybe the most common question I get is "How is Unidesk different than...".  For example, "How is Unidesk different than application virtualization?", "How is Unidesk different than dedupe?" or "How is Unidesk different than profile management"?  And of course, each of these has a different answer, especially when we are discussing the virtues of specific products.  But I believe that...

View
Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged application virtualization, composite virtualization, deduplication, namespace virtualization, persona management, profile management, virtual c:
Why is Citrix Giving Awards for Best Profile Management?
by Ron Oglesby on Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:53 PM 7 comments, 2981 views

Isn't Citrix giving out awards for "Best Profile Manager" kind of like PETA giving out an award for “Best Protection Plan for Dinosaurs?" Interesting but somewhat behind the times, right? But that's what they did last week, saying the awards "showcase one of the key aspects of desktop virtualization, user profile management."

Sure, profile management was a necessary evil in the days of Windows ...

View
Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged citrix, profile management
If virtual desktop (VDI) profile management makes you crazy, call Unidesk... we’ll eliminate it
by on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM 0 comments, 2003 views

I spent yesterday at an enjoyable partner meeting where one of the main architects clearly expressed his distaste for several brands of profile management software. His customers’ top complaints?

  • Profiles are extra work to manage on top of their virtual desktops
  • Users don’t like the limitations of their ‘profiles’; they want a real desktop
  • One product has random profile disappearance...
View
Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged persistent personalization, profile management
For profile management, RTO is goodness, but users need more
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:12 PM 0 comments, 2651 views

One of the things VMware View was often knocked for when it first came out was how it handled Windows profiles. Citrix acquired Sepago a few years ago and has been busy integrating it into Citrix Delivery Center to deal with profile management issues, whereas VMware has had to rely on standard Microsoft roaming profiles or some third party tool. With its acquisition of RTO's tools, VMware can now ...

View
Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged persistent personalization, persistent virtual desktop, profile management, rto software, vmware