Brian Madden

Announcing the second edition of The VDI Delusion: "The New VDI Reality"

Brian Madden — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:03:00 GMT

Big news from BriForum 2013 London, which kicks off today! It’s been a little over a year since Gabe, Jack, and I published the first edition of our book, The VDI Delusion . While we're incredibly proud of that book, in hindsight we're not sure...(read more)

VDI is still about trade-offs. The difference is that in 2013, you can pick which ones.

Brian Madden — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:28:00 GMT

Blog posting on BrianMadden.com might be a bit light this week as we scramble to put the final touches on our BriForum 2013 London conference which takes place this Thursday and Friday in London. (If you haven't registered yet and like to attend, you...(read more)

Two reasons why User Installed Apps don't matter anymore

Brian Madden — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:33:00 GMT

It's been awhile since we've talked about User Installed Apps (UIA) on the site. But with the news (rumor?) that AppSense is stopping development on their StrataApps UIA project , I'm starting to wonder if UIA even matters anymore? No, actually we've...(read more)

Is it too late for Terminal Server live session migration?

Brian Madden — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:47:00 GMT

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of us in the SBC space dreamed of a Terminal Server feature called "live session migration." We wanted to be able to take a fully running user session from one server and instantly and transparently move it...(read more)

BriForum 2013 Chicago "super early bird" registration discount ends tomorrow!

Brian Madden — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:13:00 GMT

The BriForum 2013 Chicago super early bird discount ends tomorrow, Friday, April 26, so you only have two days to save $300 for this year's BriForum conference taking place July 30 – August 1. Now that we've announced this year's agenda and session...(read more)

Will single app desktop VMs replace RDSH / Terminal Server in the future?

Brian Madden — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:03:00 GMT

I've been writing about the future of the Windows desktop quite a bit recently. My belief is that as the world moves to devices and tablets and web apps and cloud whatever, the lowly Windows desktop application will be reduced to middleware , only used...(read more)

Being "compliant" doesn't mean you're secure. Compliance keeps you out of jail. Security keeps you out of the news.

Brian Madden — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:56:00 GMT

Two of the big areas of concern around the consumerization of IT and BYOD are security and compliance. Whenever I start talking about users being able to do whatever they want , or users bringing in their own devices , people in the audience consistently...(read more)

Rethinking network security: all your on-premises WiFi users are actually "remote" users

Brian Madden — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:56:00 GMT

Last week I spoke at TechTarget's Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference in New York City. My topic was about the Consumerization of IT, specifically ten things you can do to start to address consumerization in your organization. One of my ten things...(read more)

Citrix canceled Synergy in Europe, so you should come to BriForum 2013 London instead! 16-17 May.

Brian Madden — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

By now you've probably seen that Citrix has canceled their Synergy event for Europe for 2013. (It was going to be in London this year.) In a blog post announcing their new strategy, they described how they're going back to having many smaller, one-day...(read more)

Watchdox releases "Watchdox Apps," cloud-based Windows app integration with their file syncing product

Brian Madden — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT

Last December I wrote that WatchDox bought InstallFree and that I loved the combination of the two companies. If you're not familiar with either company, WatchDox is one of the "corporate Dropbox-like solutions" with a keen focus on DRM and document &...(read more)

Windows XP support ends one year from today. If you're not migrated by then, will your CIO sign-off on zero day vulnerability risks beyond that?

Brian Madden — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:30:00 GMT

April 8, 2014 is the final, we-mean-it-this-time, no extensions end of support for Microsoft Windows XP. (Well, unless you're a really big customer who can leverage Microsoft into providing longer support. Don't tell anyone!) But for most of us, we have...(read more)

Will Windows Blue kill the desktop? No!

Brian Madden — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:32:00 GMT

I can't believe we have to have this conversation again. Microsoft's plans for their update to Windows 8 (codenamed Windows "Blue") have started to leak out, and many are claiming it will kill the desktop. <sigh> So since I know you're probably...(read more)

What's the future of Windows in the enterprise? Middleware.

Brian Madden — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:15:00 GMT

A big part of my desktop virtualization road show talks is "The Future of Windows in the Enterprise." As you're well aware, while I love VDI technology, I believe that VDI is simply a "form factor" change for desktops that doesn't fundamentally transform...(read more)

BriForum 2013 London detailed agenda posted. Early bird reg ends this Thursday.

Brian Madden — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:14:00 GMT

You may remember that Gabe posted the list of technical breakout sessions that we'd accepted for this year's BriForum 2013 London which takes place this coming May 16-17. Now we finally have the detailed agenda posted , including which sessions will be...(read more)

Nvidia moves "GRID" products to the mainstream, introduces server appliances with GPUs, sets standard for VDI graphics performance

Brian Madden — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:45:00 GMT

It's no secret that I love what Nvidia is doing in the VDI space. We first wrote about them in 2011 when they outlined their vision of how GPUs could be used for remoting protocol encoding that could deliver graphics on par with local computing. Then...(read more)