Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft ’

Desktop virtualization, a year in review

January 3, 2011
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The desktop virtualization year opened with a bang at CES with the explosion of vendor announcements introducing the next generation of mobile tablets. The obvious winner this year being Apple and the iPad but with many more vendors showing off Windows-based tablets including HP, Archos and Pegatron, as well as Android tablets from manufacturers such…

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Presentation Virtualization, a year in review

December 31, 2010
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Way back in January, when 2010 still had that showroom fresh smell we released Presentation Virtualization Solutions whitepaper; the year wasn't half way through before that was updated and its being defrosted as we speak to enable updates going into 2011. Its been an eventful year for Presentation Virtualization.

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Virtualizing Internet Explorer: Microsoft Takes The Ball and Goes Home

November 26, 2010
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There is great outrage to Microsoft's reluctance to play ball and support virtualization of IE. Without an alternative, the solutions offered by Microsoft are expensive, cumbersome and difficult to maintain. Virtualising the application may well allow different browser versions to co-exist - but the user-experience can be cumbersome with links to other applications not always…

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OpenStack on Hyper-V – Microsoft does Public Cloud Interoperability

November 11, 2010
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On October 22nd, Microsoft announced that it has partnered with Cloud.com to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project. The announcement caused a great deal of interest here at the Virtualization Practice, as it signals an unexpected willingness on Microsoft's part to pursue interoperability at the IaaS layer,…

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Transforming Desktop Computing

October 22, 2010
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While at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco this year, I got to meet up and talk with Robert from Atlantis Computing. Our conversation was about VDI and he was quite proud of the capabilities that Atlantis ILIO brings to the table in the VDI space. The conversation went well and got me interested in investigating…

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VMware, Novell and the CVP

September 23, 2010
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There has been a lot of noise about a negotiations between VMware and Novell, rumors are that it regards the purchase of the SUSE division, now firstly every thing that follows is pure supposition on my part, I have no insider knowledge. now mike has put forward one argument on why a VMware purchase of…

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Will VMware acquire SUSE to build a clone of Microsoft Azure?

September 21, 2010
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VMware may buy SUSE from Novell for a host of reasons, one of the most important of which may be that it gets access to Mono and thereby creates a .NET cloud to compete with Microsoft Azure. Paradoxically, we expect that Microsoft will want this to happen.

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Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization – MED-V: Just a Band-Aid Solution?

July 19, 2010
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Is Med-V only a 'point solution' to ease migration or can you use that functionality to a wider audience to solve other problems? When considering Med-v as part of MDOP, is it a useful client hypervisor tool for reducing desktop management costs.

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Controlling the Virtual Infrastruture

June 18, 2010
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There is a great deal of marketing hype about which hypervisor is better but I have spent some thinking about this and really have to wonder if the hypervisor is what we should really be focusing or concentrating on. A lot of third party vendors are starting to port their products to be able to…

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