by Gunnar Berger | April 10, 2013 | 3 Comments
For the past few years I’ve had an idea that I’d repeat over and over to anyone that would listen to me. I’ve been given a hard time about it on twitter, have been told about every technical reason why it’s not possible but in the end I stick by this idea: I want micro servers for virtual desktop [...]
Category: SHVD VDI Tags: Catalyst-NA, micro servers, moonshot, SHVD, VDI
by Gunnar Berger | February 1, 2013 | 2 Comments
I can’t believe its been over 3 months since my last blog. I’ve been busy working away on protocol papers comparing the user experience of RDP8, PCoIP, and ICA/HDX. I wrote one paper for each vendor and a fourth paper doing a side by side comparison of them. To write these papers I had to ask the [...]
Category: SBC SHVD VDI Tags: Citrix, HDX, ICA, Microsoft, PCoIP, RDP8, RDS, RemoteApp, RemoteFX, SBC, SHVD, VDI, VMware, VMware View, Windows 8, XenApp, XenDesktop
by Gunnar Berger | October 15, 2012 | 2 Comments
This has never happened to me before. I was done writing a long blog on Microsoft’s RDP8 (RemoteFX) and how I wanted two things, 1) More client support and 2) Windows 7 support for RDP8. Within an hour of writing that blog I see this on twitter:
by Gunnar Berger | September 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
I don’t hide the fact that I’m a huge fan of appliances and that I’m opposed to traditional desktop virtualization architectures. I know all about pod/block design and have designed many solutions using the pod/block principle, but just because I have to use something doesn’t mean I want to. Block designs can be used to [...]
Category: SBC SHVD VDI Tags: appliance, nutanix, pivot3, SHVD, vblock, VDI
by Gunnar Berger | August 3, 2012 | 6 Comments
In my next assignment I plan on diving into all things protocol. From Citrix’s ICA protocol and the HDX wrappers that make that protocol outstanding, to the VMware/Teradici PCoIP protocol, which I have a lot of intimate experience with (full disclosure I used to work for Teradici), and I plan on covering RemoteFX and potentially [...]
Category: SBC SHVD VDI Tags: ALP, Catalyst-NA, Citrix XenDesktop, GPU, HDX, ICA, ICA/HDX, PCoIP, RemoteFX, SHVD, Slice, Terminal Services, VDI, VMware, VMware View
by Gunnar Berger | July 20, 2012 | 10 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. Welcome back to my final installment of my Windows 8 Review. At this point I’ve pretty much covered most everything I want to say, but I do have one last thing I’d like to talk about [...]
by Gunnar Berger | July 19, 2012 | 7 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. Welcome back! Today is day four of my series on Windows 8. We’ve discussed Windows 8 as a business decision, what it’s like from a tablet device, and what it’s like from a desktop device; today [...]
by Gunnar Berger | July 18, 2012 | 21 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. If you’ve been following me this week you know I’ve covered Windows 8 as a business decision, Windows 8 through the eyes of a tablet user, today I’m going to be covering Windows 8 through the [...]
by Gunnar Berger | July 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. Welcome back for Part 2 of my series on Windows 8. Yesterday I looked at the business decision Microsoft made when they decided to design Windows 8 for both a tablet and a desktop. Today I’m dropping [...]
by Gunnar Berger | July 16, 2012 | 11 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a [...]
