VideoOverIP was a hit at BriForum!
Posted on August 4, 2009
Filed Under General & Informational, User Experience, VDI News | 3 Comments
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.
The VDIworks crew interacting with attendees
Umair and Erick, who were representing us at BriForum, attached a webcam to the VideoOverIP host system to show live-multimedia broadcasts. They also had CAD models being rendered on the fly, full-screen hi-definition video being played back on the second display and while all that was happening, a YouTube video playing on the primary display. The system performed great throughout the 3 day show and generated a LOT of interest!
Here is a list of three key things we learned from the show… or more specifically, through our interaction with hundreds of the brightest minds in virtualization today.
Lots of folks, lots of energy and a deep interest in Virtualization!
1. People don’t like being tied to a single vendor. The fact that VideoOverIP runs on any Hypervisor, on any vendors’ Thin client and server was appreciated.
2. Cost matters. Most folks (VDI customers) will not pay thousands of dollars for a really high-end solution that provides the same graphics performance as a $500 PC. Attendees liked the fact that VideoOverIP is inexpensive and works with existing hardware. I guess this is not surprising, because who wants to be told that they need to upgrade to a special magic custom Thin client or a server “certified” to run a particular brand of Hypervisor?!
3. The quality of the end user experience is paramount. VideoOverIP is fast. Fast is good. Period. We have always thought delivering excellent performance with an inexpensive product is important. Turns out we weren’t off the mark!
Energized with the reception we got at BriForum, we’re back and we mean business 
We have a lot of exciting stuff in the works for VideoOverIP and our other products… watch this space for more updates.
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I am very interested in an evaluation of this product. I saw the demo video on the BrianMadden.com and the performance looks amazing. Does this work on XP VMs virtualized on Xen?
XenFan, yes it does. We support all major Hypervisors, and that includes Hyper-V, Xen and VMware ESX. We also support VMware Server in case you want excellent video performance in smaller environments and don’t want to spend too much on the Hypervisor… VMware Server, as you know, is free.
I thought the post made some good points on VideoOverIP! On a related topic if i need to get data I use python for simple html extracting data, but for larger projects like documents, the web, or files do you have any suggestions that would work great? quick custom web scrapers, extracting data, and data parsing programs?