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VMware recorded a pretty humorous video that was unveiled at this week’s VMworld North America conference. A few minutes into the music video, VMware folks are literally shown dancing on Citrix’s doorstep (outside the Citrix office in Santa Clara). While this could be taken as a simple competitive prank, multiple conversations I’ve had with VMware’s end user computing team led me to believe that the dance was more of a metaphor for VMware’s confidence in their product portfolio. At the Gartner Catalyst North America 2011 conference, VMware announced that View 5.0’s PCoIP protocol enhancements would reduce bandwidth by up to (Read more...)

Last week I traveled through various parts of Europe, while stopping for two days in Copenhagen for VMworld Europe. With eight days of travel, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test the feasibility of working from a server-hosted virtual desktop while traveling abroad. I run both Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 SP1 and VMware View 4.5 in my office lab in New Jersey. Accessing virtual desktops over the local area network using my Wyse Zero clients offers nothing short of an outstanding experience. I connect to my XenDesktop systems using the Wyse Xenith and connect to View using the (Read more...)

This is the last post in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” As a final test, I connected to my VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop environments from my hotel in Oslo, Norway.

I considered myself pretty lucky. For the last test, the conditions were pretty extreme. I consistently measured 405 ms of latency to my office lab, and bandwidth was low as well. My netperf tests yielded a point-to-point bandwidth of 131 Kbps.

Let’s start with VMware View. It took me three tries to complete a video of the test actions. On the first two occasions, (Read more...)