Our Take on the Dell-Wyse Acquisition for Virtual Desktops

Apr 3, 2012

Dell’s move was much expected as they have been very public about going in the cloud. They launched a desktop virtualization offering earlier this year as they see the tidal wave for hosted virtual desktops forming and are very focused on their cloud strategy, from the desktop to the datacenter.

 
 
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CIOs: Losing Control?

Mar 23, 2012

Gartner published its list of top 11 predictions in 2012 – a much anticipated list that we read religiously. One of their predictions is that 35% of IT Budgets will be managed outside the IT department by 2015. CIOs will see their budget reallocated to a different business unit where the business manager is in control.

 
 
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Hosted Exchange: Multi-Tenant vs. Shared

Mar 20, 2012

A shared Hosted Exchange environment is just that—shared. It’s also known as a multi-tenant Exchange environment. Multiple Hosted Exchange organizations on a single Exchange server.

 
 
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Common Pain Points for Investors in Hosted Virtual Desktops

Mar 15, 2012

Market timing – Research firms have got it wrong for the last few years. Adoption hasn’t been what they forecasted. Hence, by 2014 there will not be 40M+ hosted virtual desktops in the U.S.

 
 
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The Windows 7 hosted desktop - Doing it right successfully requires licensing expertise and a commitment to the customer.

Mar 9, 2012

Most of us in the know have been wondering how ONLive was delivering a Windows 7 hosted desktop for $4.99/mo. Now (finally), Microsoft is wondering too. We knew it was non-compliant: price-point and instant provisioning were the give-away.

 
 
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How to pick the right cloud vendor?

Mar 8, 2012

Trying to move your infrastructure in the cloud to keep up with your competitors? Trying to figure out which cloud company to work with?

 
 
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Spilled water on your laptop? Not a soggy situation with HVD

Mar 1, 2012

The other day I spilled a glass of water all over my laptop. It didn’t get on anything else—just my pretty (and not-completely-waterproof) laptop. It was like it decided to be kind—I know your papers cannot be replaced but your documents can be recovered. Well thank you, water.

 
 
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Cloud Evolution

Feb 24, 2012

Many cloud providers claim to offer cloud hosting as a very unique service which is actually just a cliché. Yet the evolution of cloud is really still yet to come. 

 
 
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Mac vs. PC – The Best of Both Worlds

Feb 23, 2012

I am a loyal Mac user. To be totally honest, my initial reasoning for making the switch from my archaic PC was superficial - I loved the sleek, sexy look of a MacBook Pro and imagined it fitting in beautifully with my modern décor.

 
 
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Apple’s iCloud vs. HVD

Feb 14, 2012

A friend asked me an interesting question the other day: Is a Hosted Virtual Desktop the same as iCloud? Well the short answer is: not quite.

 
 
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