Posts tagged Software
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 [...]
Waiting for Godot, part II
Waiting for Godot was a play written by Samuel Beckett about some itinerants waiting around for a character named Godot. While I don’t want to explain the plot, I will say that the characters spend time twiddling their thumbs waiting for something to happen. That same twiddling occurs while you’re rebuilding your user’s XP o [...]
The secret sauce…
One of the most frequent questions I hear when discussing the concept of VDI, moving the desktop version of Windows XP or Windows 7 to an instance running on the host server is … what about the updates and allowing applications to be used by certain users and not others. There are several ways to handle it; the simplest but most labor i [...]
Pano Logic has something new
Pano Logic, one of our preferred vendors has just released Generation 2 of their amazing Zero client cube. What makes their products unique is that they don’t have a CPU, RAM or firmware in their cubes, yes they really are maintenance free and a ZERO compared to their zero client competitors that really aren’t true zeros. The Pan [...]
Magical effects, or should I say FX?
The FX in this instance is RemoteFX which Microsoft is including in their Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008, Release 2. From the VDI point of view the key component is RemoteFX, a new technology to provide amazing graphics for VDI endpoint users that use thin clients or repurposed XPs.
So what is RemoteFX, and why? The trick here is to t [...]