Brian Madden

Look out Citrix HDX & VMware PCoIP: RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8 is awesome!

Brian Madden — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT

At their Build conference this past September, Microsoft spend a fair amount of time discussing and demoing their plans for RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8. I finally took the time to watch the videos from the conference, and I gotta say: RemoteFX and RDP...(read more)

A deeper look at Ericom's "AccessNow" HTML5 client. Why wait for Citrix & VMware? This thing is out now & works with View and vWorkspace.

Brian Madden — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:55:00 GMT

Gabe wrote about how HTML5 clients work almost a year ago , and he mentioned Ericom's HTML5 client in his review of his Chromebook . Put simply, Ericom AccessNow is an HTML5 client for using remote desktops through web browsers. The client is "installed...(read more)

HP plans $200 zero client that can do HDX, PCoIP, or RemoteFX. (In the same client!)

Brian Madden — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Last week Gabe and I visited HP's main campus in Houston to meet with Tom Flynn, the CTO of their thin client group. We talked about a lot of cool things (tablets, Android, ARM, Windows Embedded, thin clients), and invited Tom to join us on our radio...(read more)

Will desktops ever move to the cloud? Newsflash: Mine is already is a cloud desktop. And so is yours.

Brian Madden — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:37:00 GMT

When thinking of the term "cloud desktop," most people immediately think of either (1) a Desktop-as-a-Service remote protocol-based VDI-like solution (Desktone, dinCloud etc.), or (2) one of the pure browser-based desktop environments like the Google...(read more)

If Microsoft puts "real" Windows 8 on tablets, how will OEMs deal with that $70 Windows license?

Brian Madden — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT

While we've had a lot of conversations on BrianMadden.com over the past few weeks about Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 and tablets, there still a few open questions that we haven't talked about yet. The one on my mind today is about the business model...(read more)

Saying "the PC is dead" does not mean "the keyboard and mouse are dead"

Brian Madden — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place this week in Las Vegas, and it's expected that the biggest news for IT pros will be Microsoft announcing be details around Windows 8 touch-based interfaces for tablets. (Jack Madden will be at the Microsoft...(read more)

5 reasons it will be hard for Microsoft "win" the future desktop/tablet/Win8 race

Brian Madden — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:44:00 GMT

We had three great articles this week on BrianMadden.com and ConsumerizeIT.com talking about Microsoft, tablets, and applications: If you think delivering Windows apps to iPads will keep users happy, you’re in trouble! Is Microsoft really building...(read more)

Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet strategy is based on their desktop OS and not their phone OS. That's stupid.

Brian Madden — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:01:00 GMT

Back when the iPad came out in April 2010, I showed mine to a friend who didn't like it. "This thing is nothing more than an iPod Touch with a bigger screen." "Yeah?" I thought, "that's why it's so brilliant!" The iPad is just a big iPod Touch. They didn...(read more)

BrianMadden.com Zeitgeist 2011

Brian Madden — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:29:00 GMT

Taking a page from Google's annual Zeitgeist metrics , we decided to compile some of our own for BrianMadden.com. (Actually we did this a long time ago, though it looks like we haven't since 2004 .) We posted 447 new articles & videos in 2011 (including...(read more)

Attention Vendors: If your products only work with virtual desktops in 2012, man… good luck with that!

Brian Madden — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:50:00 GMT

One of my biggest themes of 2012 is going to be that desktop virtualization is more about "desktops" and less about "virtualization." Those who are (or who are to be) successful with desktop virtualization will be those who are successful with Windows...(read more)

Please take our "Consumerization of IT" state of the industry survey. (With chance to win free BriForum 2012 admission.)

Brian Madden — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:43:00 GMT

As you know we've recently begun to focus more on " The Consumerization of IT " recently, and we even launched a sister site to BrianMadden.com called " ConsumerizeIT.com ." One of the things we'd like to do as part of this launch is to understand the...(read more)

Everyone is making VDI too hard: it's really just a desktop form factor change

Brian Madden — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:12:00 GMT

A lot of people throw around phrases like "big deal," "game changing," and "transformational when describing VDI. But in VDI is not a big deal. It's not game changing. In fact, VDI is nothing more than a form factor change. It's the same desktop you've...(read more)

Is Oracle committed to VDI? Let's look at their current strategy.

Brian Madden — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:23:00 GMT

A few weeks ago, Jack and I drove down to Oracle to visit their desktop virtualization team. This meeting was a long time coming, as I'd been criticized in the past for not having a good understanding of Sun's offerings for years, and just as we were...(read more)

Remember that FUIT / Consumerization article I wrote six months ago? We launched ConsumerizeIT.com to address it.

Brian Madden — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:58:00 GMT

Many people read the article I wrote six months ago called " The Consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it's a real challenge today. (Part 1) ." And ever since then, most people have been asking me "When are you going to write Part...(read more)

NVIDIA hopes that in the future, remote VDI won't mean a worse user experience than local computing

Brian Madden — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:36:00 GMT

Last week, Jack, Justin, and I drove down to Santa Clara to visit chipmaker NVIDIA. This was the first time that I really talked to anyone at the company, having just realized that they have a play in the virtual desktop space after their announcement...(read more)