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Out on a Limb with Virtual Desktops – What’s in it for You?
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM 0 comments, 892 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 2 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

There’s no question that virtual desktops can deliver a lot of advantages to those in charge of managing IT on campus. We’re certainly seeing our share of value here at Menlo College, where we’re reducing the operational costs of desktop...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education
VDI Deployment Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Unidesk Customer
by Andrew Nadeau on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM 0 comments, 3687 views

Last week, Unidesk and VMware View customer State of Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities returned to the spotlight to provide a status update on their virtual desktop deployment - 1,500 users across all use cases. This is the fifth time we've had a customer share their story, and each time we've made small tweaks to the presentation format based on feedback we've received from attendees....

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer webinar, Ohio DODD
VDI Right on the Money
by Andrew Nadeau on Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM 0 comments, 1610 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 1 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

“So how much did your VDI implementation cost, anyway?”

A lot of people mumble incoherently and look at the floor when asked this basic question. Not us. Here at Menlo College we are well into the rollout of our new virtual desktops...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, non-persistent desktop, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education, vmware view
Unidesk and VMware - Perfect Complements? You Decide...
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM 0 comments, 1551 views

So often at Unidesk, we hear questions like “Do you integrate with VMware View or do you replace View?”, “Do you work with VMware ThinApp?”, "Do I still need Linked Clones", and “Isn’t Unidesk supposed to alleviate the need for ThinApp altogether?”

Read our VMware View Unidesk FAQ, which explains how Unidesk integrates with View the broker, and replaces the various management components...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged vmware thinapp, vmware view
Customer perspective: why understanding use cases is so important in VDI
by Tom Rose on Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM 0 comments, 3542 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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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer, education, non-persistent desktop, persistent virtual desktop, vdi use cases, vmware view
Unidesk and VMware enable Ohio DODD to virtualize 1,500 desktops for all workers and all use cases
by Tom Rose on Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM 0 comments, 3064 views

This week we announced that the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) is virtualizing its 1,500 desktops with Unidesk, VMware View, and VMware vSphere. While 1,500 desktops is a good-sized VDI deployment, that's not what caught the attention of eWEEK, who ran a nice story on the news. It's that 1,500 desktops represents just about all of the workers at the agency, and all use cases....

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged appsense, customers, Ohio DODD, use cases, user virtualization, vmware view, VMware vSphere