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Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops

29 July 2010 | 5:04 am

In another blog, I discussed Windows 7 services that you might wish to disable when going down the path of desktop virtualization. In this article, I'm now focusing on registry modification you will want to make to optimize Windows 7 for virtual desktops. I've broken it down into Recommended configurations, Standard Mode configurations (for Provisioning services), and Optional configurations....

Brian’s wrong… about VDI and Local Storage.

27 July 2010 | 2:30 pm

A couple of weeks ago Brian wrote an article titled “F*** the SAN. VDI storage should be local!” It had about 40 comments and 3000 views in its first day, showing the emotion and interest in this topic. It really sparked a small war within the community (as seen by the comments section) and a number of debates about the various use cases for SAN, where it fits, and where it...

Inside Intel: A plan for desktop virtualization

26 July 2010 | 8:29 am

Imagine being CIO for Intel . You'd serve over 90,000 employees scattered around the globe, many of them hardcore technologists happy to second-guess any decision you make.

Why aren't VMware and RSA working together to create the ultimate secure virtual desktop environment?

26 July 2010 | 1:00 am

RSA and VMware both have legions of crazed fanatical customers, and as it happens both companies are owned by EMC. This was the topic of one of the side conversations I had at BriForum last month. We talked about how it's weird that the two companies haven't done more together in the desktop space. (Unfortunately I forget who I had this conversation with, but I'm sure that this was an idea that...

In 2010, desktop virtualization is still tactical. The Win7 opportunity has been missed.

21 July 2010 | 12:00 am

I gave about 20 speeches about desktop virtualization in 2009, and one of the core tenants of those was that Windows 7 and desktop virtualization are sort of “codependent” on each other. I felt since most companies were still on Windows XP, there wasn’t really an incentive to go through the huge disruption and effort of desktop virtualization just to end up on Windows XP again...

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