At one of the virtualization conferences where I presented a breakout session, I was asked to join a couple of other speakers for a panel discussion. To my big surprise, the conversation got sort of confusing when the question “What are the benefits of desktop virtualization?” came up. I thought that by now everyone inContinue Reading

When looking through some of the documents I have collected over the last years, I found an interesting statement made by Yankee Group. Their prediction was that VDI will get mainstream in 2009. Well, this prediction is a couple of years old and we all know that it didn’t happen. I don’t want to putContinue Reading

A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend HP Discover 2011 in Vienna. AppSense was one of the exhibitors there and I presented our sponsor session at day 1. It was my first time at Discover and I must say that I was impressed: 7,000 attendees, 270 executive meetings and 533 trackContinue Reading

Over the next weeks, Shawn Bass and I will be presenting our latest results on comparing remoting protocols at different events and conferences, such as BriForum and Microsoft TechEd. One of the protocols we are testing intensively is Microsoft RDP 7.1 with RemoteFX, typically only referred to as “RemoteFX”. Now people started asking me questionsContinue Reading

I have a long history in the remote desktop and remote application market, so for obvious reasons I like the notion of virtual desktops.  But when creating slideware for a series of one-day TechTarget seminars on VDI I started thinking about the “reality” of VDI.  A couple of VDI facts I collected are confusing butContinue Reading

At the beginning of this year I got into touch with some folks from SearchDatacenter.de, a website provided by TechTarget.  They asked me if I wanted to deliver a vendor-independent one-day seminar diving into the technical details of virtual desktops.  After thinking a second or two I said “Yes, sure”.  The reason for such anContinue Reading

Since almost two weeks, Shawn Bass and I teach Advanced Citrix Training Classes and present at Geek Speak Events in Norway and France. We had an audience of almost 30 training class students and 60+ event attendees. We always asked about the experience with virtual desktop infrastructures in production environments. The amazing outcome was thatContinue Reading

Over the last years I had the opportunity to visit many corporate customers and have deep technical conversations with them, mostly around their existing or future terminal server, Citrix and virtualization infrastructures.  This allowed me to see many corporate IT environments from the inside and speak to the people responsible for planning and design –Continue Reading