Simon Bramfitt (Independent Industry Analyst)

I had a great time last week with Cisco doing the Desktop Transformation webinar, and an even better time afterwards talking to Cisco Distinguished Engineer Jim French about some of the more...

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  I’ve already said Cisco will be the company responsible for putting VDI on the map this year, which could explain why I’ve been asked to fill the role of “industry...

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Citrix screwed up recently with VDI-in-a-Box, creating a worldwide outage for every user of the product on January 1st. The proximate cause was a simple one,  theVirtual Desktop Agent used...

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Atlantis Computing caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it announced the $200 VDI desktop. Now I hope I don’t get any into any trouble with Atlantis for saying this, especially as I will be...

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As I hinted in yesterday’s post, Cisco is in my top vendors list for the second year running.  If you need the background on Cisco’s desktop virtualization ambitions, I covered the...

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Citrix had a busy year with notable acquisitions in the form of Kaviza, cloud.com and most recently App-DNA. Setting aside cloud.com as not being immediately relevant to desktop virtualization; in...

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Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time for gifting, gluttony, and awkward embraces from your over-familiar uncle Ted. Festivities and restraining orders aside, at this time of year it’s...

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Seriously, the only post-PC device shipping today is a Kindle. And that’s the regular Kindle, not the iPad busting Kindle Fire. I’ve been slow to buy any sort of e-book –...

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I’ve long held the opinion that most conventional desktop management deployment implementations are fundamentally broken. The amount of manual intervention needed to keep these systems working...

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The one feature in vSphere 5 that was anticipated above all others by desktop systems professionals was View Accelerator – VMware’s answer to Citrix XenServer IntelliCache which improves...

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Over the past couple of months I have been running a survey on enterprise adoption of desktop virtualization technologies.  Over the duration of the survey I have spoken with representatives of 194...

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  A quick follow-up to last week’s post Defining the post-PC Era Here’s a video that the Microsoft Office team released showcasing its vision for the future. Set aside the...

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In listening to some people you would be forgiven for thinking that corporations are dumping last year’s PCs in the trash in their rush to make room for a future built of smartphones, tablets,...

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In listening to some people you would be forgiven for thinking that corporations are dumping last year’s PCs in the trash in their rush to make room for a future built of smartphones, tablets,...

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Last week I posed a simple question on Twitter #VDI too costly? What would it take to make you reconsider? Double the number of sessions per server? Triple maybe? Only to be reminded just how...

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