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Deciding on Your Virtual Desktop Specifications

Being an architect in the desktop virtualization space, I get a lot of questions around scalability.  I'm not a big fan of scalability questions because there is too much SWAG involved.  Unfortunately, I've been getting them for over 10 years: first with XenApp (which was WinFrame 1.7) and now with XenDesktop.  As an example, I can easily get hundreds of users on a single XenApp ...

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Truths and Misconceptions about XenDesktop Architecture Design and VMWare View

I got an interesting item in my inbox from a friend who was speaking with VMware about their VDI solution.  He asked me if the information VMware was telling him was true. He was especially curious because he knew I wrote the Citrix XenDesktop Enterprise Designreference architecture that VMware was referencing to talk about how much better View was. VMWare's approach is laughable.  They are ...

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