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Improving the Desktop Experience with Virtualization: Prominent University Makes the Grade
by Nicole Reineke on Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM 0 comments, 1731 views

Today we demonstrated Unidesk to two of the virtualization architects at a prominent East Coast U.S. university (ok, it's in the ACC for you college sports fans). I was blown away by their genuine focus on their customers (i.e. students, faculty, and administration) and their command of the university's "business." They spent a significant amount of time explaining their customers’ needs, the many...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged vdi in education
“The long-contained, often imitated, but never duplicated...”* User Environment Management
by on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM 2 comments, 1441 views

For those of you who have seen the Unidesk Demo, you probably already know what I am going to say. For those who haven’t, check it out, and sign up for Beta.

What does this have to do with User Environment Management? Everything.

But, let's mix it up and say it the way my dearly-departed Great Aunt Theresa would have: “Honey, we are all that and a bag of chips.” Cough, cough, wheeze. “Nicole...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged user environment management, user personalization
Do you know what you’re spending managing your physical desktops?
by Nicole Reineke on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:19 PM 3 comments, 1141 views

On the quarterly conference call on Wednesday, VMware CEO Paul Maritz indicated that people are not deploying virtual desktops because they don’t know how much they are spending managing physical desktops. 
 
That’s surprising to me given how much has been written on this topic by analysts and bloggers (see Gartner Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2008 Update ) and from what I’ve...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged cost of managing physical desktops, desktop tco, pc configuration life cycle management, vdi roi
Gartner On How to Make Desktop Virtualization More Personal
by Tom Rose on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM 3 comments, 1856 views

Gartner just issued a research note explaining how new approaches to persistent personalization will enable enterprises to implement hosted virtual desktops (HVD/VDI) for a much broader population of workers. Unidesk is listed as one of the promising new vendors that will make this possible.

The note - Why, How and When to Personalize Hosted Virtual Desktops - explains how techniques such as pooled...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged persistent virtual desktop, personalize virtual desktops
VDI Storage Problems Slow Desktop Virtualization Deployments
by Nicole Reineke on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM 0 comments, 1505 views

I recently spoke with the lead desktop architect at a large, public pharmaceutical company. They are hosting 2,000 full-copy virtual desktops on expensive Fibre Channel (FC) storage, and want to expand their desktop virtualization implementation to 10,000+ employees over the next 2 years. Guess what's holding them back?

The 8,000 additional full-copy virtual desktops on expensive FC storage.

InfoStor...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged vdi storage
Free Type 1 Hypervisors Pave the Way for Desktop Management Software Reinvention
by Tom Rose on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM 0 comments, 2261 views

It was great to hear the news from Citrix Synergy that XenClient, Citrix's Type 1 hypervisor being built in partnership with Intel, will be offered free of charge.

Back when the news of the Citrix/Intel relationship and Project Independence (the code name for XenClient) first broke, we agreed with the experts who said embedding the bare-metal client hypervisor in the chip would accelerate mainstream...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged citrix, type 1 client hypervisor, virtual desktop management