At first glance, desktop virtualization seems fairly simple. Just deliver an operating system image, tune it, set the policies required, persist the user state, and you’re good to go. Right?
James has worked in IT since 1995, spending nearly ten years as a server engineer and systems administrator before choosing to focus heavily on user and application virtualization in late 2004. He currently works for a boutique consultancy called HTG in the north-east of England, focusing mainly on EUC solutions and focusing on cloud, mobility and digital transformation. He is a current CTA (Citrix Technology Advocate) and AppSense Community Advisor (ACA)
Setting Appropriate Desktop Virtualization Goals
Desktop virtualization is becoming more prevalent. Technology for delivering it is maturing, and adoption is increasing. But desktop virtualization (or VDI, to give it the commonly used acronym) may often be deployed with the wrong approach or goals in mind. It has been a buzzword for so long that, like “cloud,” it is often encouraged …
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Enterprise File Synchronization Comparison, Part 1: Intro
What Is Enterprise File Synchronization? Enterprise file synchronization (EFS) is a maturing area, and one that is crucial to many modern software deployments—particularly those that involve any form of desktop virtualization. In the past, solutions like Microsoft’s offline files were used to provide this kind of requirement, but it was a technology that was neither …
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Is BYOD Becoming BYOBS?
In the modern technical world, you don’t have to search far to find someone with a quote purporting to define the future. This month’s example came to me via the medium of Twitter, with an analyst offering the line, “by 2017, half of all employers will require employees to use their own device.”
Windows 10 Servicing Plans—The Last Operating System You’ll Ever Need. Nightmare, or Necessity?
Simon Bramfitt’s recent article on this site, Windows 10: The Last Operating System You’ll Ever Need, offers a view into the next generation of the Windows desktop platform. Of particular interest is the revelation that Windows 10 will most likely see Microsoft move to a continuous release schedule, ending the cycle of 18-month releases that …
Are Profile Management Vendors Simply Spreading FUD?
I‘ve heard it opined a few times recently that the whole profile management market, often referred to as “user state virtualization” (USV) or “user environment management” (UEM), is based on a lie. Essentially, there are those out there who believe that the industry that has sprung up around UEM is a solution looking for a problem, …
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