Over at Virtualization.info they have an interesting blog with a chart from VDIworks comparing various VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) protocols to their new VideoOverIP protocol. The chart is very enlightening, but leaves out one big player: XenDesktop and their ICA protocol. I don't know if that was intentional, or just...
In some organizations, in particular the Department of Defense, we are required to use CAC (SmartCard) authentication to access a variety of resources internally and externally. At my previous job I really loved using Outlook Anywhere (formerlly known as RPC over HTTP), from literally anywhere without a VPN. Unfortunately, Microsoft...
Microsoft finally released their final (non-beta) versions of IntelliType and IntelliPoint 7.0 for Windows 7. You can download them directly from the links below.IntelliType 7 64-bitIntelliPoint 7 64-bit
Today Cisco released two videos on the Cisco Nexus 1000v, going into a lot of good deals about how it works. I'd recommend anyone considering the Enterprise Plus edition of VMware vSphere and the Cisco 1000v to look at the videos.If you want to view them in HD, so you...
Get the new Windows 7 64-bit ATI drivers here. Version 9.6, released on 6/14/2009.
A few weeks ago I was at Microsoft TechED 2009 in LA, and I was wondering around the vendor expo area. I stumbled upon a small company which, among other things, specializes in Windows OS deployment tools. OS deployment tools are nothing new; Microsoft has Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Symantec...
On my current project we are looking at various VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) solutions, to meet some pretty stringent requirements. In past years the technology was just not there yet to provide a fully collaborative A/V experience to our users so we stuck with traditional fat clients.The killer application for...
So it's official, the planned launch date of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is October 22, 2009! Windows 7 will come in six varities: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise. According to a Microsoft blog the RTM code will be available to partners the second half...
Good news! Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM'd, and you can download an evaluation copy right now! Get the download here. Microsoft says you can upgrade the evaluation version to a fully licensed version, once they release that around July 1.For a good run down on what's new in...
Last month Intel released their new Nehalem processors, which knock the socks off their previous generation processors and now beat AMD for dual socket servers. For years VMware has published benchmarks for various servers so you can judge their virtualization performance.The sweet spot for virtualization is a dual processor server....
For the very few of you running Windows Vista (please, run Windows 7 RC1, its way better), or the larger crowd of server 2008 users, Microsoft has released service pack 2. What happened to server 2008 SP1? Well it was built into the RTM release, so it was never a...
If you are looking into virtualization or already using it, you will have likely heard that VMware is releasing their next major version of ESX server tomorrow. vSphere 4.0, the new name for Virtual Infrastructure, is a significant upgrade and has dozens of new features. Although it was formally announced...