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Today on one of Citrix’s Blogs, they announced a new upcoming technology called “ Hosted Virtual Machines ” (HVM).  As if the Virtualization Soup of technology wasn’t big enough already, but this does solve an interesting problem.  Without much more information on the subject, here is my take...

As it stands today, there is a large and growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market with vendors spread throughout the software and hardware spectrum.  Unfortunately, many enterprises have either not done or heard of VDI or their in perpetual piloting.  My theory isn’t that the benefits...

Today I found an interesting web video from MokaFive’s CTO “John Whaley” on Virtual Desktop ( http://www.mokafive.com/solutions/it-administrators.php ).  He does a good job explaining the differences between deploying a virtual desktop on a server (such as Microsoft Hyper-V, although he didn’t call...

Disclaimer: While there are many products and technologies for VDI, including VMWare and Citrix, I’ll stay focused on using all Microsoft products…for now. For the past few years I’ve been talking to many customers about the benefits of Virtualization. Not just for servers using Microsoft Hyper-V, but...

As noted in a previous post , I deployed a demo environment leveraging Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. While this worked pretty good, I wasn't able to run all of the virtual machines at the same time due to insufficient memory (yes, even 8 GB wasn't enough), so I decided to leverage some additional...