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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Old Wine in New Bottles?!

Is virtual desktop infrastructure old wine in new bottles?! Will this still be the case in 2010? If there is just one buzzword in the IT industry, then it is “virtualization.” Nowadays we virtualize the network, storage, hardware, desktops and applications. Desktop or workspace virtualization is an application that is gaining in importance. This form of virtualization can, in essence, be divided into to parts: “server-hosted” and “client-side.” The type of desktop virtualization that is receiving the most attention is “server-hosted.” More and more organizations are asking themselves whether they must choose between Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Server-Based Computing (SBC) or local desktops. Questions that arise include: Will VDI replace the SBC concept? What are the pros and cons of VDI? What role do application virtualization and OS streaming play in the overall concept?...

Published Sep 23 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,831 views, 11 comments

App-V 4.5 Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide available

The App-V 4.5 Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario....

Published Sep 16 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,655 views, 1 comment

EDA, VMware ESX Deployment Appliance

There are a couple of ways to automate the installation of an ESX server. Most methods are very generic though and don’t just install ESX but install a lot of different OSes, automated or not. But all of them only install the basic OS. Customizing it is always a highly specialized and time-consuming task. To deal with this, the idea for the EDA was born. EDA stands for ESX Deployment Appliance. It’s specifically built to deploy ESX servers in the easiest and fastest way. It not only deploys ESX servers in just a few minutes, it also completely configures them. It also has a built-in script-builder that makes it possible for anybody to create a customized, completely configured ESX server without the need to really know scripting. It has a very intuitive web-interface that makes it very easy to setup a host so it not only deploys it very fast, but also makes it a very powerful disaster recovery tool. ...

Published Aug 28 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 2,685 views, 0 comments

Sanbolic Clustered File System and Citrix Provisoning Server 5.0

Sanbolic created a guide to provide readers with the steps necessary to implement a highly scalable and highly available Server and Desktop Provisioning solution using Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0, Sanbolic Melio FS 2008, Sanbolic LaScala, and Storage Area Network (SAN) storage. ...

Published Aug 25 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,416 views, 0 comments

Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 Beta2 review

Upcomming time will be a great time for the Citrix Provisioning Server team, with the release of the 5.0 version of PVS. Before my vacation I spend some time on the PVS 5.0 beta code. Wilco van Bragt, also a CTP, spend some time on the PVS 5.0 Beta 2 which results in a nice article....

Published Aug 19 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,682 views, 0 comments

APP-V 4.5 Management Pack for SCOM review

Tim Mangan, the fifth Microsoft App-V MVP, created a nice whitepaper about the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for App-V 4.5. The whitepaper describes the installation, configuration and (health) monitoring capabilities....

Published Aug 19 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 1,586 views, 0 comments

Xtreaming Technology releases VHD CMS Professional 1.0 of its diskless OS-streaming product

Xtreaming Technology Inc. is a new US-invested start-up company working out of Shanghai, China investing in building diskless related products. Their Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) product uses OS-streaming and allows any PC to boot up a full version of Windows XP or Vista from across a network and run it locally. Last weeks I spend some time investigating their solution, the technology seems to be promissing. I just want to share the information with the community....

Published Jul 31 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 3,089 views, 53 comments

Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes

The “Application and Desktop Delivery solutions” diagram has been developed in order to be able to provide a complete overview of the various applications and desktop delivery solutions. This article was written by Ruben Spruijt in order to introduce the highlights of the delivery solutions in 30 minutes. There are so many delivery solutions that the functionalities can be confused through incomplete knowledge. The point of this article is not to describe all of the application scenarios or the technical advantages or disadvantages, but purely as a high level, vendor dependent overview of the start of technology in the applications and desktop delivery segment. Hopefully this overview will be helpful!...

Published Jul 16 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 6,680 views, 10 comments

Microsoft will release Application Virtualization 4.5 on 8 september

At Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference in Houston Microsoft announced that App-V will be released at 8 September. Microsoft Application Virtualization, short term is App-V 4.5, will give alot of new functionalities and is current in Release Candidate phase....

Published Jul 16 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 2,416 views, 1 comment

Visio stencils for Citrix Delivery Center solutions

Daniel Feller created a really nice set of visio objects for the Citrix Delivery Center solution set. This is very usefull for everyone who is involved in designing Citrix solutions....

Published Jul 03 2008 by Ruben Spruijt , 4,044 views, 3 comments

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