Opinion

Opinion

Virtual desktop software and vendors

• VMware Horizon Cloud on Azure launches support for Windows Virtual Desktop

  Customers won’t see a huge number of technical changes, but the licensing and strategy implications sure are significant.  Continue Reading

• What’s new in Login VSI Login Enterprise?

  Employee experience is just one of several factors driving a wave of monitoring buzz.  Continue Reading

• Lakeside Software takes equity investment in the latest sign of the end user experience wave

  Lakeside will double engineering and add business leadership roles.  Continue Reading

• IGEL Disrupt 2020, Part 2: Updated UD3, new UMS web console, and session notes

  Jed Ayres is now CEO; how the Frame client works on IGEL OS; WVD on Azure Stack; and more.  Continue Reading

• What’s new in Stratodesk’s NoTouch OS Velma Lakes release?

  Stratodesk overhauled their thin client software with new management, cloud, and architectural features.  Continue Reading

• Understand VDI market shifts from traditional VDI to cloud

  As the VDI market shifts to cloud-based VDI and DaaS, it's important to understand the bigger picture. Understand the benefits and complexities of the changing market.  Continue Reading

• An update on Workspot: Funding, growth, and their ‘cloud desktop fabric,’ aimed at the enterprise

  Workspot is now targeting enterprise customers, with the ability to deploy, monitor, and manage, desktops across any Azure region.  Continue Reading

• I talked to a real-world Samsung DeX pilot customer, the Chula Vista Police Department

  It’s taken a while to get here, but DeX is solving a lot of problems for CVPD in one fell swoop. It’s all about having the right use case!  Continue Reading

• VMworld 2018 First impressions: EUC isn’t totally ignored

  EUC doesn’t feel quite as overlooked as I was led to believe, even though one meeting happened off-site and saw little promotion (it was VMworld 2018’s best-kept secret—you missed out).  Continue Reading

• Login VSI’s app compatibility tool Login AT applies computer vision to IT

  Login AT is available today. Login VSI’s new tool should be useful right off the bat, but there are a lot of future opportunities, too.  Continue Reading

• Stratodesk NoTouch replaces the OS on any x86 thin client or PC, now works on Raspberry Pi

  Stratodesk NoTouch is a Thin Client OS that will run on any x86 device from other thin client vendors. They've recently added Raspberry Pi support, which makes NoTouch unique in the industry.  Continue Reading

• Workspot belongs in the second tier of VDI platforms

  Workspot's VDI 2.0 platform puts it squarely in the desktop virtualization market game. The company has come a long way since its early days.  Continue Reading

• Virtual GPU is nearly ready for the enterprise masses

  GPU virtualization is traditionally only for virtual desktop users that need to run resource-intensive applications, but more competition among vendors could change that paradigm.  Continue Reading

• Raspberry Pi thin client devices are finally viable for the enterprise

  Citrix partnered with Raspberry Pi to create minimal-cost thin clients optimized for the HDX remote display protocol, providing a new way to lower the price of XenApp and XenDesktop deployments.  Continue Reading

• NComputing vSpace in focus after company ditches DaaS

  NComputing has been a solid, budget VDI and app virtualization vendor for a while, but it nearly wandered off a cliff while pursuing desktop as a service. Now the company is back to concentrating on what it does best.  Continue Reading

• Which VDI vendors will fill the Dell vWorkspace void?

  Dell is no longer selling licenses to new vWorkspace customers. Other midmarket desktop and app virtualization vendors will be scrambling to earn a piece of vWorkspace's market share.  Continue Reading

• Plan the next 9 years of your life: EOL dates for all your favorite MS, Citrix, and VMware products!

  Knowing the End of Life dates for the products you use can help determine when to tackle certain projects.  Continue Reading

• Login VSI & VMware show simple tuning of Windows 10 settings can increase VDI density almost 50%!

  Windows 10 is great on the desktop, but in VDI it's been a beast. LoginVSI found some tweaks to bring it back down to earth.  Continue Reading

• AppSense-LANDesk marriage leads to a honeymoon for IT

  LANDesk has a product portfolio that includes nearly everything but the type of user environment management AppSense specializes in. The AppSense-LANDesk deal is too good a fit to not go well.  Continue Reading

• New remote desktop client offers a shortcut for mobile users

  There's a new remote desktop client on the block, and it integrates with Citrix XenApp. HopTo's Mobile App eXperience uses simple keyboard shortcuts to make Windows apps mobile friendly.  Continue Reading

• VMware announces Horizon Air Hybrid Mode, Horizon 7, and AppVolumes 3.0. Here's our full analysis:

  VMware apparently did not take much a winter break, because in the past week we've seen several huge announcements. This article is going to cover the desktop-related news, but Jack has also written about Workspace One and the new direction it is ...  Continue Reading

• What does the Dell-EMC deal mean for vWorkspace?

  Dell's acquisition of EMC will also make it the largest stakeholder in desktop virtualization leader VMware. So what happens to Dell vWorkspace, the company's own VDI platform?  Continue Reading

• Will anyone buy Moka5?

  Client-side virtualization company Moka5 has laid off most of its staff, and word is that the company is looking to be acquired. Because of overlap, VMware and Citrix are non-factors, which leaves companies like Dell and ThinSpace as prime suspects.  Continue Reading

• Do Google Chromebooks have a place in the enterprise?

  For Google Chromebooks to gain steam in the enterprise, applications need to perform better and prices need to come down.  Continue Reading

• Why VMware Mirage is NOT the same as virtual desktop layering

  Disclaimer: I am the Chief Solution Architect for Unidesk and an obvious Layering fan boy. I have done my best to present the differences between layering and how VMware Horizon Mirage operates, without turning it into an "us vs.  Continue Reading

• VDI graphics delivery and storage performance -- solved

  Storage and graphics delivery are no longer annoying snags when it comes to VDI. See what NVIDIA and Atlantis did to smooth things out.  Continue Reading