by Gunnar Berger | June 3, 2013 | 3 Comments
At events like Microsoft’s TechEd it can be hard to hear the important updates through all the announcements. I wrote this blog while cramped in the keynote and honestly it can get a bit overwhelming because there are a ton of announcements and not all of them are very interesting to an analyst that focuses [...]
Category: SBC SHVD VDI Tags: #msteched, Hyper-V, Hyper-V 2012 R2, HyperV, Microsoft, RDS, TechEd, VDI, Windows Server 2012 R2
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 | 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 | May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. In my previous blog post I discussed how virtual desktops are a growing market, and that I give most of the credit to an increased user experience (as opposed to Server Based Computing). I didn’t mention [...]
Category: SHVD VDI Tags: CAD, Citrix, Citrix XenDesktop, GPU, Gunnar Berger, NVIDIA, Shared GPU, SHVD, VDI, VGX, VMware, VMware View
by Gunnar Berger | April 17, 2012 | 10 Comments
Disclaimer: Gartner analysts use their blogs to share their personal views and opinions on subjects close to their hearts. Those that know me know that I’ve worked on a virtual desktop as my primary desktop for the past couple of years. I believe very firmly that if you are going to talk about a certain [...]
Category: SBC SHVD VDI Tags: Citrix XenDesktop, RDS, Remote Desktop Services, SBC, Server Based Computing, SHVD, Terminal Services, VDI, VMware View, XenApp
