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Details about Microsoft Calista start to emerge, but much is still unknown

It's been almost a year since Microsoft bought Calista Technologies , a non-shipping set of technologies that leverages host and client-based GPUs for 3D and multimedia remoting. Since the acquisition, Microsoft has been mum about the technology....

Published Nov 21 2008 by Brian Madden , 776 views, 5 comments

BrianMadden.com is now part of TechTarget

I'm happy to announce that we have been acquired by TechTarget . This is really cool because it means that Gabe and I can focus 100% on writing and interacting with the community, and we don't have to be weighed down by all the operational minutia...

Published Nov 20 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,930 views, 20 comments

What does Microsoft Azure have to do with us? Hint: not much today.

By now you're surely aware of the [relatively] huge announcements Microsoft made last month about their new Azure platform . Basically Microsoft is buying hundreds of thousands of Dell servers that they will run themselves. They also wrote their own...

Published Nov 17 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,391 views, 2 comments

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. Think about what this means for terminal services!

One of the announcements that come from PDC was that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be 64-bit only . At first I just thought, "It's about time!" and it really didn't sink in. But a few days ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Holy...

Published Nov 13 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,747 views, 18 comments

Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?

InternetWeek reported a few weeks ago that new firmware for Sun Ray clients is available , and that one of the key new features is multimedia redirection. This is funny because I thought the whole point of Sun Rays was they were so thin? Check out this...

Published Nov 12 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,460 views, 5 comments

Want to know if your app runs on Citrix? Check the "Citrix Ready" website

This is actually pretty cool. Citrix recently launched the new " Citrix Ready Community Verified " portion of the Citrix Community site. Unlike a lot of vendor "ready" programs that are just a shakedown for payments from ISVs to be...

Published Nov 11 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,155 views, 5 comments

VMware gets into the mobile phone virtualization business

Apparently VMware bought some technology from a company called Trango Virtual Machines last month which they're launching today as the "VMware Mobile Virtual Platform" (VMware MVP). The point of this is not so a user can run multiple VMs...

Published Nov 10 2008 by Brian Madden , 1,628 views, 2 comments

It's official: Microsoft will extend the TS connection broker to also handle VDI (updated)

SearchWinIT is reporting from Microsoft TechEd in Barcelona this week. In an article publised today, Margie Semilof wrote that Microsoft is extending Terminal Services Remote Desktop Services for Windows Server 2008 R2, due out in 2010. Quote from the...

Published Nov 03 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,709 views, 9 comments

The name "Terminal Services" is dead. Get ready for "Remote Deskop Services."

SearchWinIT is reporting from Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona that Microsoft announced that the new version of Terminal Server will not be called Terminal Server. Instead, it will be called "Remote Desktop Services." This is probably a good...

Published Nov 03 2008 by Brian Madden , 2,091 views, 4 comments

Dell's new thin client: jack of all trades, master of none?

Behold the Dell Optiplex FX160 : Yesterday Dell announced their "flex client" series of desktop devices. This is basically a super-small Optiplex-branded client based on Intel's Atom processor . So what is it? A thin client? A desktop PC...

Published Oct 30 2008 by Brian Madden , 3,087 views, 11 comments

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