Posts tagged endpoints
For the love of speed
I love IOPS. That’s the hidden must have when deploying VDI. Everyone focuses on the different endpoint clients, but I love IOPS. Why? I’ve written about IOPS before, that is the speed of data flowing in and out of the hard drives in the data center to support the VDI endpoints, and strongly recommend using SSDs instead of standar [...]
A good foundation
VDI comes in many forms, but they all depend on a good foundation. Ignoring the actual VDI software, endpoints and feature sets, the cornerstone of VDI is the operating system or hypervisor that its running on. The two camps are versions of Linux – VMware, Citrix, Virtual Bridges, 2X and Kaviza and on the other side, Microsoft and [...]
The VDI recipe, what goes into a syst...
First you start by counting the number of desktop PCs doing routine work that isn’t CPU intensive. Anything but PhotoShop, Movie editing or CAD type programs are normal applications that spend most of their lives waiting for the user to press a key.
Then you look at your network cabling, probably Cat 5, 5E or better and the network switches a [...]
Do you want Zero or Thin or even Fat?
It depends. Do you recall the soft drink commercials that somehow attempted to persuade us that zero calories made a significant difference from one calorie drinks? Well it’s not as meaningless as that, but Zero and Thin does provide some interesting comparisons to the big, old fat client of yesteryear. Let’s define the terms, [...]
Getting a broker without going broke,...
So why is the 100 desktop seats connection broker either going to cost your company nothing for 100 users (seats) up to $35,000? There are several reasons. From the free perspective, there is only one true Zero Client desktop product available, the Pano Logic cube. When it came out, no commercial broker software would work with it, as it was [...]