Desktop Virtualization
How To Buy
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Low-cost app publishing alternative to Citrix and VMware emerges
A newly formed remote desktop and application delivery tool gives IT pros a low-cost alternative to app publishing technologies from VMware and Citrix. This week ... Continue Reading
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VDI hardware evaluation checklist
Organizations considering adopting VDI must exercise caution when choosing the hardware to run their VDI platform. Virtual desktop performance is directly tied to the performance ... Continue Reading
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Hyper-converged newcomer Nimboxx adds VDI muscle
Nimboxx took a page from the big vendors’ playbook and acquired desktop virtualization capability for its Atomic Unit storage hardware, rather than developing the software ... Continue Reading
Project Reports
A great way to successfully execute a project you’re working on is to see what others have done. In this section you can view information on what your peers did, how they did it – plus, what to do and what not to do. Don’t forget to return the favor by submitting a project you’ve worked in through the community Project Report submittal form.
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School District Struggles Getting Devices to Work with Newly Installed Equipment
Solutions: VMware vSphere - This report describes a project involving desktop virtualization. Problem: I am a network analyst for an urban city school district. The school’s goal was to ... Continue Reading
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Consolidate outdated hardware with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft solutions
Solutions: Citrix XenDesktop 6.5, Microsoft 2012 r2 Hyper-V, VMware Horizon 5.0 with View - This report describes a project involving desktop virtualization. Problem: Our IT team wanted to consolidate old and outdated hardware and achieve better management of our ... Continue Reading
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VMware Horizon View 6: Hardware upgrade and cost reduction for community college
Solutions: VMware Horizon 6.0 with View - This report describes a project involving desktop virtualization. Problem: I am a data communications specialist for a community college with ten campuses. Goals for this ... Continue Reading
Research Insights
Want to know what companies like yours are saying? Check this section out to get the facts and figures from our ongoing survey research on how, what and why IT managers are buying enterprise technology.
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AWS ratings coming up
We continue to gather ratings from cloud infrastructure buyers. The latest data represents 206 AWS buyers, 132 Azure buyers, 67 Google buyers and 51 open ... Continue Reading
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Adding VMs? Get ready to buy more storage
What storage-related problems or challenges have you faced since virtualizing your servers? What storage-related problems or challenges have you faced since virtualizing your servers? The ... Continue Reading
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What’s going on in Platform as a Service?
Our ongoing survey of cloud infrastructure buyers now has enough responses from Platform as a Service buyers to give a beginning idea of the landscape. ... Continue Reading
Expert Advice
Want to hear from experts about a particular product, process or trend? See what IT experts have to say on the evaluation and purchase of IT products in articles, past and live webinars, and exclusive videos.
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Debunking cloud-hosted virtual desktop myths
DaaS has emerged as an intriguing option for implementing virtual desktops without having to pay up for the high costs of adopting and implementing VDI. ... Continue Reading
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Avoid VDI configuration issues by building desktops from scratch
The most common problem I have personally encountered with real-world virtual desktop deployment is the actual virtual desktop configuration. Oftentimes, organizations will simply virtualize a physical desktop, ... Continue Reading
Webinars
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Five ways storage can cause VDI projects to fail and how to avoid these problems
This webinar addresses the top five ways that storage can ruin a VDI project. Some of them are based on old-fashioned thinking, and others are ... Continue Reading
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Webinar Transcript: Printing and local file access products
Problem: Kenneth is a View 5 customer, looking at the newer application’s remoting methods. How do the various products such as XenApp, Microsoft RemoteApp, and VMware Horizon 6 handle ... Continue Reading
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Webinar Transcript: If you’re looking for serious performance, is DaaS an option?
Problem: Andreas says, “My question is in regards to going through requirements. Some of our users (10-50 users) look like they may need some serious ... Continue Reading