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Do you think VMware is catching up to Citrix in the desktop space? Balderdash! Citrix needs to catch up to VMware.

I heard an analyst the other day who said that with VMware's View and vClient announcements over the past few months, they were finally starting to catch up to Citrix in the desktop space. "Are you kidding me?" I thought. "The tables...

Published Nov 25 2008 by Brian Madden , 11,504 views, 30 comments

How should we do product reviews on BrianMadden.com?

One of the best things about being part of TechTarget is that Gabe and I can spent a lot more time writing. In the very old days (of 2003), I did a fair amount of honest-to-goodness products reviews. We haven't really done too many (if any?) of these...

Published Nov 24 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,264 views, 8 comments

Details about Microsoft Calista start to emerge, but much is still unknown

It's been almost a year since Microsoft bought Calista Technologies , a non-shipping set of technologies that leverages host and client-based GPUs for 3D and multimedia remoting. Since the acquisition, Microsoft has been mum about the technology....

Published Nov 21 2008 by Brian Madden , 4,314 views, 7 comments

BrianMadden.com is now part of TechTarget

I'm happy to announce that we have been acquired by TechTarget . This is really cool because it means that Gabe and I can focus 100% on writing and interacting with the community, and we don't have to be weighed down by all the operational minutia...

Published Nov 20 2008 by Brian Madden , 6,345 views, 25 comments

What does Microsoft Azure have to do with us? Hint: not much today.

By now you're surely aware of the [relatively] huge announcements Microsoft made last month about their new Azure platform . Basically Microsoft is buying hundreds of thousands of Dell servers that they will run themselves. They also wrote their own...

Published Nov 17 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,462 views, 2 comments

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. Think about what this means for terminal services!

One of the announcements that come from PDC was that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be 64-bit only . At first I just thought, "It's about time!" and it really didn't sink in. But a few days ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Holy...

Published Nov 13 2008 by Brian Madden , 24,892 views, 21 comments

Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?

InternetWeek reported a few weeks ago that new firmware for Sun Ray clients is available , and that one of the key new features is multimedia redirection. This is funny because I thought the whole point of Sun Rays was they were so thin? Check out this...

Published Nov 12 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,407 views, 5 comments

Want to know if your app runs on Citrix? Check the "Citrix Ready" website

This is actually pretty cool. Citrix recently launched the new " Citrix Ready Community Verified " portion of the Citrix Community site. Unlike a lot of vendor "ready" programs that are just a shakedown for payments from ISVs to be...

Published Nov 11 2008 by Brian Madden , 4,368 views, 5 comments

VMware gets into the mobile phone virtualization business

Apparently VMware bought some technology from a company called Trango Virtual Machines last month which they're launching today as the "VMware Mobile Virtual Platform" (VMware MVP). The point of this is not so a user can run multiple VMs...

Published Nov 10 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,419 views, 6 comments

It's official: Microsoft will extend the TS connection broker to also handle VDI (updated)

SearchWinIT is reporting from Microsoft TechEd in Barcelona this week. In an article publised today, Margie Semilof wrote that Microsoft is extending Terminal Services Remote Desktop Services for Windows Server 2008 R2, due out in 2010. Quote from the...

Published Nov 03 2008 by Brian Madden , 5,638 views, 10 comments

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