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Will VDI decrease or increase your desktop TCO?
by Chris Midgley on Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:17 AM 1 comment, 5047 views

What's the top benefit you expect to get when you virtualize your desktops? I'll bet most of you will say you expect to substantially reduce the cost of ownership. And that makes a lot of sense, as desktop management is one of the largest cost centers in IT. The approach to managing desktops has changed little in over a decade, making it ripe for improvement.

According to Gartner, the total cost ...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged desktop tco, non-persistent, opex, persistent
How to disable Google Chrome Auto-Updates (for VDI applications)
by Ron Oglesby on Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM 0 comments, 2387 views

When packaging an application in Unidesk or any other software distribution technology commonly used in virtual desktops (think ThinApp and AppV here) you generally will need to disable any auto-update functionality in the application to ensure the package is updated by IT and not the end-user. This is a first in a series of articles about auto-update functionality in commonly used applications.

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged application virtualization, vdi
"VDI in Education" Webinars Showcase Desktop Virtualization Successes at Colleges and Universities
by Tom Rose on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:08 PM 0 comments, 1261 views

We just aired the third and final webinar in our Fall 2011 "VDI in Education" webinar series, highlighting desktop virtualization deployments at University of Connecticut, Southwestern Michigan College, and William Woods University. Over 600 people registered to hear the VDI project leads at these schools talk about their technology choices, lessons learned, and benefits realized. That 600+ registered...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer webinar, dell, equallogic, pano logic, vdi in education, vmware view, wyse
Slow IE 9 Performance and Printing in VDI?
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:30 AM 0 comments, 3613 views

Last week a customer was complaining of sluggish performance and specifically that when using IE or attempting to print from IE 9 in their virtual desktops it took a long time to bring up the printing menu. When I say a long time… think a minute or more. Now that seems slow, but its really glacier slow in desktop terms. I mean, sit there and watch the second hand on your clock for 60 seconds and...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged vdi
How many applications have you virtualized?
by Chris Midgley on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM 2 comments, 2415 views

Application virtualization isn't new.  It's been around for many years, and it's wonderfully useful with VDI deployments.  It solves so many IT management problems - single image management of applications, personalized application delivery, reduction of application conflicts (aka, "DLL hell") and more. 

Then why are most companies failing to virtualize even half of their applications...

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Posted in From Chris's Desktop
Tagged application isolation, application virtualization, Layering
VMworld Fun and Attendee Reactions to Unidesk VDI Layering Technology
by Tom Rose on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM 0 comments, 1104 views

Yesterday, I blogged about our customers’ participation in the Unidesk booth at VMworld 2011, and the broad vendor ecosystem represented by their VDI implementations. But it wasn’t all work and no play. Come on, we were in Las Vegas, after all!

Tuesday night, we held our first customer appreciation dinner at Voodoo Steak, high atop the Rio hotel and casino.

After enjoying the great view of...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customers, desktop layering, vmworld