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by Tom Rose today (Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM) 0 comments

Today as Citrix Synergy 2013 kicks into full gear, we announced that MTM Technologies is a Unidesk Certified Solution Partner (UCSP), and is now offering the Unidesk virtual desktop management platform to its customers.

MTM is a long-time Citrix partner and one of the first IT solution providers to build a national practice around desktop virtualization. They know the VDI space as well as anyone....

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by Tom Rose on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:47 PM 0 comments, 87 views

Today we announced that California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is building an internal Desktops-As-A-Service (DaaS) platform for its 3,000+ users on Unidesk and VMware Horizon View. The term DaaS is typically used to describe desktops that organizations "rent" from an external cloud service provider. Yet in this case, DWR uses DaaS to describe the desktops they are delivering from their internal...

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by Tom Rose on Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM 0 comments, 732 views

VMware took the next step in its well-received End User Computing (EUC) strategy with the launch of Horizon Suite at Partner Exchange 2013. The suite bundles together three products - Horizon View, Horizon Mirage, and Horizon Workspace. With VMware positioning Mirage as layering technology, some have asked what this means for Unidesk. Here are the 3 reasons Unidesk continues to be essential for VMware...

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by Tom Rose on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM 0 comments, 203 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...

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by on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:17 PM 0 comments, 214 views

Today at VMware Partner Exchange 2013, Unidesk announced a technology alliance with Lakeside Software, a leader in big data analytics for IT. Lakeside is known for its SysTrack product suite, which automates all kinds of IT tasks, such as power management, user auditing, performance monitoring, change management, event management, latency and end-user experience management, application resource analysis...

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by Tom Rose on Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM 1 comment, 439 views

Pivot3, one of our converged infrastructure partners, just announced the results of a VDI study indicating 2013 could be the year of VDI in the mid-market. Dimensional Research found that 80% of companies with 5,000 or fewer employees are considering VDI as part of their IT strategy. The top three benefits most often cited for VDI adoption included easier maintenance and support, faster deployment...

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