VDI, long in coming, now reigns

February 23, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Back in 1998 when we first envisioned buying the dormant Merge technology from Platinum, we saw virtualization as an exciting way to improve how companies provide desktop computing resources to their employees. We didn’t know what to call it. All we knew was that it was the next generation [...]

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VERDE Update Enables Cloud-based Red Hat Desktops

February 10, 2009

Image via CrunchBase In December 2008, we announced our VERDE platform together with IBM and Canonical for serving cloud-based virtual Ubuntu Linux desktops.  Understanding that some of our customers may have an investment in Red Hat desktops, we recently extended the VERDE platform to support them as well. You can now serve Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5.x virtual [...]

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Smoke, Mirrors and VMware

February 6, 2009

VMare made a little splash when they announced “open sourcing” their VDI client. My first thought is, so what? The second issue is, the press got so excited that they prematurely extrapolated it as a release of the full VDI product – as if there isn’t enough misinformation out there…  The VDI product and the [...]

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Massive VDI Deployments with VERDE Cluster

February 2, 2009

Since 2000 we’ve helped customers deploy large-scale Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) solutions in various ways. Some consolidated hundreds of users in a data center. Others chose a “replicated branch” model, where they deployed VDI from local servers across dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of locations. In the last year or so we have seen tremendous [...]

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As one successful strategist famously said, “It’s the Economy Stupid…

December 3, 2008

When one door is closes, another one opens – don’t keep looking at the closed door or you will miss the opportunities that have just opened to you. This old aphorism is as applicable today as when it was first coined as budgets in IT shrink and organizations are expected to do more with less. [...]

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Sorry VMware, but there was nothing “groundbreaking” about your announcement this week

December 3, 2008

VMware announced “groundbreaking” features in its VMware View 3 release today but the problem is there is actually nothing groundbreaking in there at all. Virtual Bridges has been deploying VDI-based solutions for several years that include dynamic desktop provisioning from a master image, integrated remote printing and multimedia capabilities for some time now. Accountability and [...]

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