Use VDIworks Protocol Inspector to get a full view of VDI protocols in use on your network
Posted on January 27, 2010
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VDIworks Protocol Inspector lets you scan your environment for remote desktop and VDI protocols to conduct a quick desktop virtualization audit.
If you haven’t yet heard about our new Protocol Inspector utility, you might want to check it out. For administrators responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of workstations, VMs and Thin clients, one key challenge can simply be knowing which systems support which protocols! With so many protocols out there, and many integrated into the OS (e.g. RDP), how do you know which endpoints and hosts are accessible?
Protocol Inspector helps you tackle this conundrum… and more. PI is a simple utility that you can install in a few minutes and it doesn’t require any agents to be deployed on target VMs or Thin clients. You simply install it on a single network connected Windows system, then run a scan. It’ll discover all the nodes on your network and will analyze them to determine whether they run PCoIP, VideoOverIP, RGS, ICA, RDP or VNC. You’ll quickly be able to tell: Read more
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Virtualization on your Smartphone? Engadget pooh-poohs VMware’s plans…
Posted on December 7, 2009
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Trango's technology is being pushed by VMware... but is anyone interested?
VMware recently bought a small, privately-held french virtualization company, Trango, that specialized in hypervisors for smartphones and small mobile devices. While many questioned whether it was a little extreme to virtualize a cell phone, VMware felt the time for this technology was nigh.
In a recent article about VMware’s plans, the popular tech blog, Engadget, rips the virtualized cell phone idea to virtual – no pun intended – shreds:
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteThe company pledges it’ll be a seamless experience, but we’re doubtful given how even stepping out of HTC’s SenseUI into the OS below can occasionally result in mild nausea. The bigger question is who would want this, and it’s easy to think the answer is “basically nobody”
VDIworks to showcase exciting Virtual Desktop solutions at GITEX 2009 in Dubai
Posted on October 16, 2009
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At the 2009 GITEX exhibition, VDIworks groundbreaking virtual desktop solution will be a new addition to Dubai's many marvels!
Dubai is one of the hottest destinations on the planet and GITEX is fast becoming the most important IT show on the globe. With over 120,000 visitors expected this year, and over 3,000 major companies, GITEX now overshadows almost all other tech events.
VDIworks will be showcasing its ground breaking Virtual Desktop and Systems Management technologies at GITEX. As usual, we promise to put up an excellent show! We’ll be demo’ing our flagship management product, VDP (Virtual Desktop Platform), our endpoint virtualization solution, VDIworks2Go, and of course, our blazing fast remoting protocol, VideoOverIP.
Our presence at GITEX is a first for VDIworks and is part of our growing focus on EMEA as a region. The Information Technology market in the Middle East has been growing at a breathtaking pace. Read more
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VideoOverIP Broadcast/Multi-Receiver mode enters Alpha
Posted on October 1, 2009
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37' large flat panels showing VideoOverIP in Broadcast/Multi-receiver mode. The source display is mirrored on all four Thinclients/displays.
Our remote desktop protocol, VideoOverIP, is evolving very, very rapidly. Over just the last three months, we’ve added a litany of features and performance improvements. The gap between VideoOverIP and other protocols continues to widen. Just at a high-level, here’s a re-cap:
1) Support for Xen, VMware ESX and VMware Server
2) Audio input capability without requiring USB redirection; this means analog front-panel inputs on a Thinclient will work without customers needing to invest in a separate USB headset.
3) Multimonitor mode
4) Significant optimizations for Hyper-V; low CPU usage and excellent performance
5) Support for OpenGL and DirectX. DirectX 10 in 1:1 mode
And we’re now upping the ante with a very important feature lots of customers have been asking for: Read more
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VideoOverIP now optimized for Hyper-V: Free Hypervisor + inexpensive protocol deliver perhaps the industry’s best VDI experience!
Posted on September 3, 2009
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There. I said it. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Just below this paragraph, you can view a quick YouTube video we’ve just posted showing our new Hyper-V optimized version of VideoOverIP deliver blazing fast performance over a regular LAN. We think you’ll be impressed with the incredibly minor CPU overhead the protocol demonstrates even when a full screen 720p video is being played back. It continues to be codec independent, inexpensive, simple and quick to install and capable of supporting any Hypervisor and any Thinclient.If you aren’t quite sure what I’m going on about, it’s probably because you missed our recent announcement about Hyper-V optimized VideoOverIP. In that case, please, by all means take a look at the release.
We’re thrilled with the results we’re achieving with VideoOverIP -- technically, user feedback-wise and in terms of getting evaluations and customers signed on. Across the board, this has been a great product for us. The feedback we’re getting just confirms that user experience (hence, the protocol) IS a problem for folks looking to implement VDI. And what has been available so far on the market, for one reason or another, hasn’t quite solved the problem. Read more
VideoOverIP was a hit at BriForum!
Posted on August 4, 2009
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Yeah, Umair had plenty to smile about after the great feedback we got from attendees! VideoOverIP multimon system running in the background.
BriForum is always a great show and this year was no different. It’s great to mingle with true technologists and folks that really “get” virtualization. Conversations here are different than at your standard, “hand out the glossy” tradeshow. You get a tough audience asking difficult questions, but that’s ok, because they’re mostly well thought out. So, it was especially gratifying to see our new remoting protocol, VideoOverIP, generate large scale interest and get such awesome feedback at a venue like this.
This being BriForum, we didn’t want to just show up with a Powerpoint (lame!) marketing flash presentations or datasheets. We went there with a live demonstration showing VideoOverIP running on a dual-monitor system. We chose relatively low-cost, run-of-the-mill Thinkpads as both client and host, just to make the point that there wasn’t a supercomputer behind the curtain rigged to show a “better than real” demonstration. We had another system running a Hypervisor with a group of Virtual Machines managed by VDIworks VDP, our connection brokering and VDI management app. Read more
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New video demo of VideoOverIP desktop remoting protocol shows Google Earth, CAD & full screen 720p playback
Posted on July 17, 2009
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Sometimes there are no adjectives to adequately describe a piece of software. In times like these, one has to take literary license and resort to things like, “This rates super high on the kickass index”. Yeah. Check this video out and you’ll know what we mean.
If you’re thinking about deploying virtual desktops or have another centralized or remote computing project in mind you probably have a checklist that looks similar to the following:
My VDI protocol wishlist
1) Inexpensive
2) Simple -- shouldn’t drag a TON of unnecessary “infrastructure” software just to enable remoting
3) Should have excellent performance; glorious full motion, full screen HD videos and more!
4) Multimonitor capabilities. Why should my VDI users suffer with less real estate?
5) Should be compatible with all major Hypervisors, since I don’t want to be locked into a single vendor!!! Read more
The VDIworks team is heading to BriForum 2009. We’ll see you in Chicago!
Posted on July 16, 2009
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Come see VideoOverIP at BriForum 2009!
We’re happy to announce that VDIworks will be a silver sponsor of TechTarget’s independent virtualization conference, BriForum 2009. Our team will be exhibiting at the event and demonstrating our recently released VideoOverIP high-speed desktop remoting protocol, as well as VDIworks2Go, our VDI product for mobile users.
Since we launched VideoOverIP just about a month ago, the response has been pretty amazing! We’re generally getting excellent feedback on simplicity, flexibility, performance and configurability. Which is great, because those are precisely the design goals we had in mind when we architected the solution.
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Add value to Microsoft’s virtualization platform? Yes, we can!
Posted on July 6, 2009
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VDIvision running within System Center. Note the connection brokering controls that appear in the right menu bar. Click the PicLens link for more detail.
Greg Shields, writing for SearchVirtualDesktop.com, covers technologies that add value on top of Microsoft’s virtualization stack. We’re pleased to see that Greg included VDIworks’ robust connection broker as one of the highlighted technologies.
If you’ve been following our progress, you will probably be aware that VDIworks has been one of the leading desktop virtualization vendors in terms of the breadth and depth of support for the Microsoft platform. For instance, we were the first vendor to deliver a management plug-in for System Center that allows all of our core brokering, thinclient management and vendor-agnostic hypervisor capabilities to be accessed from within SCOM. In addition to System Center, we were also one of the first vendors to announce support for the then-unreleased Hyper-V hypervisor.
For those of you who have extensive Microsoft infrastructure deployed in your environments, here’s a partial list of Microsoft technologies we support: Read more
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What is the Netbook’s place in the Universe? And what does it mean for VDI? – Part I
Posted on June 12, 2009
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A host of netbooks based on the NVIDIA Tegra are about to hit the market
The netbook form-factor is doing insanely well. It’s probably the only ray of light in an otherwise challenged PC industry. In fact, in just under 2 years, Netbooks now count for about 20% of the overall mobile PC (aka Laptop) shipments. This is very significant. The popularity and rapid proliferation of this form-factor begets a number of questions. For example:
- Are netbooks cannibalizing PCs and Laptops, and hence destroying the PC industry?
- Are PC ASPs (Avg. Selling Price) going to be altered for ever? And if so, what does this mean for large PC businesses that were built on $1,500 ASPs… not $299 ASPs. Are they done for?
- Are netbooks a ‘step back’ in terms of being about as powerful as a ten-year old desktop? Is the popularity of the netbook going to constrain application innovation? (The argument goes something like this: developers want their apps to run on the largest number of devices. Netbooks being the lowest common denominator, will require apps to be ‘dumbed down’ so that they can run them?)
- What do netbooks mean to alternate desktop delivery models, such as VDI? Are they complementary? An alternative? Irrelevant? Mutually exclusive?
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