Chris Wolf

Last week I traveled through various parts of Europe, while stopping for two days in Copenhagen for VMworld Europe. With eight days of travel, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test the feasibility of working from a server-hosted virtual desktop while traveling abroad. I run both Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 SP1 and VMware [...]

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This post is the second in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” The first PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX WAN performance test in my experiment began at Newark airport. I’m not one to spend more time than absolutely necessary in an airport, but I still gave myself plenty of extra time to conduct and record [...]

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This post is the third in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” After arriving at my hotel in Munich, I was ready to again compare PCoIP and ICA/HDX performance. When I connected to my lab, I was surprised that latency from Germany was actually less than with my AT&T 3G connection in the [...]

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This post is the fourth in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” Last Wednesday I flew from Copenhagen to Stockholm, and then drove with my Gartner colleagues to a hotel in Gavle, Sweden, which was close to where we would meet a client the next day. I didn’t have much time to work [...]

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This is the last post in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” As a final test, I connected to my VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop environments from my hotel in Oslo, Norway. I considered myself pretty lucky. For the last test, the conditions were pretty extreme. I consistently measured 405 ms of latency [...]

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