http://blog.drtritsch.com Terminal Servers, Remote Desktop Services and Presentation Virtualization Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:32:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VDI versus Reality I have a long history in the remote desktop and remote application market, so for obvious reasons I like the notion of virtual desktops.  But when creating slideware for a series of one-day TechTarget seminars on VDI I started thinking about the “reality” of VDI.  A couple of ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=123 Windows Desktop Virtualization Seminar At the beginning of this year I got into touch with some folks from SearchDatacenter.de, a website provided by TechTarget.  They asked me if I wanted to deliver a vendor-independent one-day seminar diving into the technical details of virtual desktops.  After thinking a second or two I ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=118 Remoting Protocols - In Quest For Truth At BriForum in Chicago two weeks ago, Shawn Bass and I presented a session comparing today's most popular remoting protocols Microsoft RDP, Citrix ICA/HDX, Quest EOP and VMware/Teradici PCoIP. We figured that it doesn't help attendees if we introduce an artificial performance index representing ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=110 Some Nordic Thoughts on the Future of App Remoting and User Interaction Last week I attended the Norwegian Citrix User Group Spring Event in Lillestrom (which is close to Oslo). There were roughly 100 attendees and this crowd is really inspiring. Despite the fact that they were never cheering and screeming while ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=107 Speaking at Microsoft TechEd and at BriForum It's a typical spring with many conferences both in the US and in Europe. In about a week I will be on my way to Citrix Synergy in San Francisco where Shawn Bass and I are invited to deliver two technical sessions. For details check out my ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=101 Are Pure Virtual Desktops only Successful in Virtual Markets? Since almost two weeks, Shawn Bass and I teach Advanced Citrix Training Classes and present at Geek Speak Events in Norway and France. We had an audience of almost 30 training class students and 60+ event attendees. We always asked about the ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=98 MVP Summit 2010 – Microsoft’s Universe of Virtualization When I attended the MVP Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond last week, there was this moment when a simple truth struck me: Microsoft is sooooo different from VMware and Citrix and Apple.  Well, you may say that this doesn’t come as a ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=96 My Sessions at Citrix Synergy 2010 in San Francisco Citrix has finalized the program agenda for Synergy San Francisco on May 12 – 14, 2010.  Yesterday they confirmed that they have scheduled Shawn Bass and me for the breakout session “Mastering User Profiles in Virtual Desktop Environments”.  Session date-time/location is Thursday, May 13, ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=93 MVP Summit 2010 – The Future of Remote Desktop Services I’m planning to attend the upcoming annual Microsoft MVP Summit next February.  Like every year since I was announced a Terminal Server MVP in 2003, I’m really looking forward to meet with members of the Microsoft product groups and directly learn ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=90 Why IT Architecture sucks in many Corporate Environments Over the last years I had the opportunity to visit many corporate customers and have deep technical conversations with them, mostly around their existing or future terminal server, Citrix and virtualization infrastructures.  This allowed me to see many corporate IT environments from the ... http://blog.drtritsch.com/?p=85