by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
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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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
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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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
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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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | September 16, 2010 | 10 Comments
Today the Wall Street Journal reported “VMware in Talks to Buy Novell Unit.” The rumor likely comes as no surprise to those who have followed the recent VMware/Novell OEM agreement. The agreement resulted in VMware including a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) subscription with vSphere licenses. VMware and Novell first started talking about an extended [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: microsoft, novell, oracle, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 15, 2010 | 4 Comments
Once upon a time an IT user named Goldie Locks tried to access her company’s applications… I’ll spare you the rest of the analogy. Some devices are too big, others too small, and some are just right. Of course, “just right” often depends on the application being consumed. I talk a lot with clients about [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Tags: apple, citrix, cloud, microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | August 31, 2010 | 17 Comments
Today at VMworld North America, VMware announced the availability of VMware View 4.5. The View 4.5 Premier release represents a significant milestone as it places VMware in very select company with Citrix as the only two vendors that offer enterprise-ready server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) solutions. For us to consider View 4.5 enterprise-ready, it had to [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have three sessions at this year’s VMworld North America conference and thought I would post them here in the event you’re interested in attending one of them. Each session will run two times, and the session descriptions, times, and locations are listed below. I hope to see you at the conference. The in-depth discussions [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | August 5, 2010 | 14 Comments
Today I was working with a client on their next generation data center architecture. They are building a highly virtualized data center with the goal of offering cloud IaaS to other departments within the organization. While talking about VM templates we discussed a favorite topic of mine – virtual hard disk structure. For several years, [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: hyper-v, Virtualization, vmware
by Chris Wolf | July 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
On Monday VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1. VMware published a document describing the new features, and I also recommend checking out VMware CTO Steve Herrod’s post as well as Eric Siebert’s great vSphere 4.1 links post. I was planning to link to several good perspectives on the vSphere 4.1 release, but Siebert’s “links” [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: vmware
