Category: End User Computing
From VDI and Graphics Acceleration to Desktop as a Service …
by Community Author | Jul 15, 2012 | End User Computing, Everything else ..., Virtualization
Interested in Desktop as a Service? See the top rated DaaS Platforms in our new comparison here. When we introduced a building block approach to our reference architecture many questions from the wider team revolved around the scaling maximums and limitations of the...
by Community Author | May 19, 2012 | End User Computing, Everything else ..., GPU, Virtualization
As you probably know, View 5 (in conjunction with vSphere 5) introduced has a software-based GPU function that gives users basic DirectX and OpenGL capability without the use of a physical GPU (like e.g. Citrix’s HDX3D GPU-passthrough requires). Typical target use...
by Andreas Groth | May 6, 2012 | End User Computing, Virtualization
As promised before, I want to start sharing some of our experiences with our on-going (IBM) VDI reference architecture (RA) work. I’ve discussed VDI patterns and inhibitors (based on real-world client engagements) in various previous articles so I’ll cut to the...
by Community Author | Oct 16, 2011 | End User Computing, Virtualization
I have to admit that it is slightly irritating to fly home from ‘yet another’ client meeting and stumble across ‘yet another’ discussion (OK, let’s call it rant) about VDI on twitter or blogs. Especially when the meeting was actually a...
by Community Author | Oct 4, 2011 | End User Computing, Everything else ..., GPU, Virtualization
(This is Part 4 of the ‘Real-World VDI’ series – see Part 1 “Multi-Vendor Stack, Part 2 “High-End Graphics”, Part 3 “Cost” and Part 5 “Future of VDI”)Interested in Desktop as a Service? See the top rated DaaS...
by Community Author | Oct 3, 2011 | End User Computing, GPU, Virtualization
(This is Part 2 of the ‘Real-World VDI’ series – see Part 1 “Multi-Vendor Stack, Part 3 “Cost”, Part 4 “Recent Announcements” and Part 5 “Future of VDI”)While most clients initially enthusiastically agree to address first the...
