Virtualization And Streaming

Windows on an iPad: OnLive Desktop rents you PC in the cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Can iPads and tablets eventually kill the laptop? OnLive thinks it has the solution. The limitations currently make such a proposition unlikely, but OnLive's announcement of a cloud-based Windows environment for the iPad provides an alternative to the App Store. Color us intrigued, but skeptical. OnLive Desktop for iPad (photos) Read the original article here

Streak 7 Is No Longer Available

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:25:00 +0000

Streak 7 Is No Longer Available Link to Dell site here

Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:19:00 +0000

Join us for a chat on Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo. Click here to join the conversation and chat with experts on Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo Tuesday Nov. 29th, 2011 Link to the original page here

Dell Streak gets DISA approval, Androids look to Pentagon invasion

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:23:00 +0000

Android conspiracy theories? They go all the way to the top -- or will soon, thanks to the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The department has given the green light to use Dell's Mobile Security for Android platform on defense networks. The testing process utilized the Dell Streak, because apparently being giant is an important part of national security. Read the original article here

Dell Makes the Case It’s Turned Channel Corner

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:04:00 +0000

It’s hard to imagine Dell will soon sign its 100,000th solution provider to its PartnerDirect program. While Dell has always had go-to-market reseller partners – particularly in foreign markets and the government sector – it’s primarily sold direct until four years ago. Now, it’s fast becoming a channel powerhouse with partner-led sales approaching one-third of the company’s revenue. Channel development and maturation are themes playing heavily in the inaugural Dell World in Austin this week. CEO Michael Dell and other executives aren’t just talking channel, but embracing partners as the catalyst of a remarkable portfolio and philosophical transformation that began in 2007. Read the original article here

Chrome extension enables remote computer control

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:41:00 +0000

Months of work on "chromoting" have reached fruition with Google's release on Friday of a new Chrome extension to let a person on one computer remotely control another across the network.
The Chrome Remote Desktop beta version, which arrived Friday, is a browser-based equivalent of remote desktop software for conventional operating systems. Such software is handy for IT administrators managing employees' machines, people taking care of their relatives' computers, or individuals getting access to their own machines from afar.

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Dell VCenter PlugIn!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:20:00 +0000

Managing hardware in a virtualized environment is harder than it needs to be. You face problems, such as:

Multiple consoles to switch between
The lack of an efficient, consistent non-preboot execution environment (PXE) process to deploy hardware and hypervisors
No integration between hardware alerts from your servers and remediation actions inside your virtual console
The physical and the virtual simply don't talk to one another. We've fixed that.

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Dell at VMworld

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:16:00 +0000

Dell at VMworld

Microsoft patent application points to fast-booting streaming OS

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:20:00 +0000

While Microsoft is busy readying the much talked about Windows 8 for release, a new patent application has popped up that could reveal even bigger -- or at least faster -- things to come. According to the filing for "Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage," which was submitted in February of last year and released last week, Redmond is looking at creating a system that could stream an entire OS to just about anything with a screen. The proposed setup would enlist a series of storage devices, both remote and local, to act as a virtual hard disk, allowing anything from a set top box to a tablet to boot almost instantaneously. We don't know about you, but we've already started a list of ways to spend the extra seconds.

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Amazon struggles to restore lost data to European cloud customers

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:50:00 +0000

Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an outage at a data center in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access applications they have built on top of Amazon's cloud service.

"We are continuing to make steady progress in delivering recovery snapshots to affected customers accounts," Amazon wrote in its status dashboard Tuesday morning. The previous day, Amazon said a software error caused the deletion of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots that were incorrectly identified as unused.

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Is Citrix close to acquiring RingCube for user personalization?

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:30:00 +0000

by Brian Madden

An interesting rumor popped up in the past few days that Citrix is close to acquiring RingCube, maker of the vDesk VDI user personalization software. Doing so would bolster Citrix's capabilities around user personalization for XenDesktop and XenClient, as well as giving them a decent play in the user installed applications space.

I've always loved RingCube's core technology. In the past I've said that they deserve an "attaboy" for putting together some cool stuff, but that I was less confident in their ability to survive in the market. They have great technology, but I'm nervous that the overall desktop virtualization market is developing more slowly then they'd need to survive. I wonder what their cash burn-to-actual sales ratio is now. (RingCube isn't unique in this predicement. I'm also nervous about Virtual Computer, MokaFive, and Wanova.)

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Educators Cut Costs, Streamline Management and Go Green With VMware View(TM) and VMware ThinApp(R)

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:36:00 +0000

PALO ALTO, CA, Jul 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- VMware, Inc. /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW -0.56% , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced growing momentum for desktop virtualization with VMware View(TM) and VMware ThinApp(R) as educators look to provide students with better access to applications across devices, expand the boundaries of learning and put campuses on a more sustainable path for the future.

VMware View and VMware ThinApp are allowing schools to reduce the deployment time of PCs from eight hours to eight minutes and log on times by up to 90 percent on older machines. Not only is this allowing schools to streamline the time and resources required to manage desktop environments, but this is also allowing them to provide more students with better access to coursework, less downtime and a consistent learning experience across devices and locations. By leveraging thin and zero clients in conjunction with these solutions, education leaders are additionally delivering energy-efficient solutions that reduce their carbon footprint and cut costs.

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Citrix Drops 7% On Weak Q3, Year EPS View

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:27:00 +0000

Software vendor Citrix Systems (CTXS) this afternoon reported Q2 revenue and earnings per share ahead of expectations, but fell on a Q3 and year outlook for profit that missed estimates.

Revenue in the three months ended in June rose 16%, year over year, to $531 million, yielding EPS of 57 cents.

Analysts on average were expecting $523 million and 55 cents per share.

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Citrix ceases sale of Essentials for Hyper-V

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:39:00 +0000

Citrix Systems Inc. confirmed reports that it will stop selling its Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, as well as its StorageLink Site Recovery for Hyper-V, citing overlap with Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.

Reports about Citrix discontinuing the sale of its Hyper-V management tools first surfaced on Twitter after the Citrix Technology Information Exchange, a Dutch event, and were confirmed by a Citrix spokesperson.

More on recent Citrix changes

Market reacts to Citrix departures

Simon Crosby, Ian Pratt to leave Citrix

Citrix Synergy 2011 recap

Reporter’s notebook: Deconstructing Citrix Synergy 2011
“There has been some overlap in development as Microsoft advances their platform and management stack on Hyper-V,” according to a Citrix statement issued through a spokesperson Thursday. “Based on customer feedback and adoption, Citrix is focusing our integration efforts on System Center.”

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Miles & Stockbridge, a V3 Systems customer profile

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:23:00 +0000

I recently had the chance to communicate with Ken Adams, the CIO of Miles & Stockbridge, about V3 Systems‘ Stratosphere 50.

Please introduce yourself and your organization
I am the Chief Information Office for the firm. I’ve been there for slightly more than 12 years. Miles & Stockbridge is a law firm in Baltimore. We have eight locations, all in the mid-Atlantic area and have 230 attorneys and employ 480 people total.

What were you doing that needed this type of technology?
The issue has always been getting our workstations to be virtualized or even to use thin clients with Citrix or other technology.The biggest issue finally became the speed of this stuff didn’t lend itself to virtualization. We couldn’t run applications fast enough. We could get on the Internet and watch a video and listen to the sound that goes with it, which is important more and more for law firms because we do depositions and things like that. There has never been an answer [for the speed], I have always been looking at it. I’ve tried many different pieces of hardware to get this to work and different thin clients.

What products did you examine before making a decision?

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Dell plugs hole in virtualization stack

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:52:00 +0000

IDG News Service - Dell has filled the last big hole in its virtualization stack through a partnership with Netuitive, which makes analytics software for managing virtual infrastructure, Netuitive and industry analysts have confirmed.

One of the challenges with a virtual infrastructure is the dependencies that exist between its many discrete components, making management of the overall system complex.

Netuitive's software collects data about performance and utilization levels throughout the infrastructure, and analyzes these to build a picture of its overall health and any problems that might arise. Netuitive says its software has patented "self learning" capabilities.

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Amazon cloud crash takes out everyone but Gaddafi

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:25:00 +0000

Slowly but surely, theories are emerging about why the Amazon cloud crashed. CNN Money cites Amazon’s weird explanation that an unnamed “networking event” created a domino effect that filled up the servers and caused them to go haywire. Unless the event was Amazon’s IT team getting blazed, how this managed to take down an entire cloud empire is unclear.

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Kaviza Delivers Personalized Virtual Desktops for Less than PCs

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:02:00 +0000

Kaviza, the leader in easy and affordable desktop virtualization today announced a new release of its award-winning VDI-in-a-box solution. VDI-in-a-box 4.1 makes it even simpler and faster for IT to provide a personalized end-user experience similar to their physical desktops, while still leveraging the consolidation and management benefits of virtual desktops. End-user customizations such as their backgrounds, bookmarks, application settings, can be saved in profiles that are dynamically loaded for optimal performance. VDI-in-a-box 4.1 bundles Citrix User Profile Manager at no additional charge. Additionally, VDI-in-a-box Version 4.1 now offers HDX Remote Access to enable seamless single sign-on across firewalls to Kaviza desktops using the Citrix Access Gateway. For instance, iPad users can login to their Windows desktops from outside the company without having to first login to the VPN. A free trial of the VDI-in-a-box 4.1 can be downloaded here.

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Desktone retools, now sells direct to consumer. Win7 VDI in the cloud, $1 per day. Brilliant!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:28:00 +0000

"Circling the drain" is the phrase I recently used to describe Desktone to a friend. The company's been around for awhile with a vision of cloud-based hosted VDI desktops. They made a lot of noise a few years ago but I hadn't heard much of anything about them more recently.

But last year, Desktone announced a new strategy. Rather than trying to sell their software to huge providers (IBM, Verizon, etc.) who would then in turn offer hosted desktops to their customers, Desktone decided to make a bold bet and do it themselves. They bought a bunch of hardware and built-out their own environment in a Rackspace colocation facility, and now they offer Windows 7 Enterprise desktops in the cloud, direct to the customer, for as little as $1 per day.

Game on.

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VMware and Liquidware Labs Deliver Stateless Desktops with Integrated Disaster Recovery Options with VMware View and ProfileUnity

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:21:00 +0000

ALPHARETTA, Ga. -March 31, 2011-Liquidware Labs, the global leader in desktop transformation solutions, today announced a joint solution with VMware View that allows organizations of all sizes to deliver stateless VMware View sessions with a best practices disaster recovery design. Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity™ is at the heart of the solution, and has seen rapid adoption in the past two quarters as companies seek to overcome user-space virtualization challenges with budget friendly solutions, and create stateless desktops.

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Microsoft SCCM 2012: built for PCs, smart enough for VDI

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Last week, I attended Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, and I had two significant takeaways. The first is that Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) has grown into a ridiculously powerful tool. The other is that Microsoft is using SCCM to change the way the desktop is perceived by changing how it is managed.

The desktop no longer means “the physical device under my desk.” Instead, the term desktop now refers to “the conceptual, abstract (but still managed) environment where I see my apps.”

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Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:43:00 +0000

E-books are revolutionizing the publishing industry and reader preferences, and Amazon might be in a unique position to hasten that change -- if they decide to start giving away their popular Kindle e-reader for free.

Here's why they might want to do that.

Last year, nearly $1 billion in e-books were sold, according to Forrester. By 2015, this is expected to jump to $3 billion. That's an awful lot of money to be made selling e-books.

At that point, selling e-readers at any price might just become an obstacle to selling more e-books. So why not just give away some e-readers for free?

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Microsoft RemoteFX for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Architectural Overview

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:27:00 +0000

Instructions
Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes a new set of user experience technologies called Microsoft RemoteFX. RemoteFX delivers a full-fidelity user experience for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) by providing a 3D virtual adapter, intelligent CODECs, and the ability to redirect USB devices on virtual machines. As part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 platform, RemoteFX is integrated with the RDP protocol, which enables shared encryption, authentication, management, and device support.

Link to the original webpage here

VMware has a fling with Microsoft Hyper-V support

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:44:00 +0000

VMware administrators seem hard-pressed to give up on using VMware vCenter Server to manage their virtual data centers. That's been good news for VMware, as the company expands its virtualization management software stack.

But if these virtualization shops continue to mix other hypervisor platforms into their environments, virtual administrators may have no choice but to invest in third-party management tools in order to maintain control over a growing heterogeneous hypervisor infrastructure. They may even start giving Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) more consideration, which would probably get under VMware's corporate skin pretty quick.

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RemoteFX released with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:45:00 +0000

It has finally arrived - release of RemoteFX with Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows 7 SP1.

Check out the Microsoft blog

And the Dell blog