Does Chrome OS Spell the End of Desktop PCs?

Until yesterday, Google's Chrome OS was all just theory and speculation. Rumors had been floating around for months, and there have been a couple of false alarms about its source code being available on some obscure site somewhere. But now Google has actually shown the real Chrome OS in action and released the open source code behind it—two things that could signal be the first ringing of final death knell for desktops.

Of course, there's still another year to go until Chrome OS is actually released. Google has made

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Dell Offers Virtualized Desktop Solution, Services for Health Care

Dell’s Medical Clinical Computing solution is designed to make it easier for hospital personnel to gain access to the information and applications they need. The client virtualization offering keeps the information and data stored in the data center, and lets physicians and other health care professionals access them through such devices as laptops, handhelds and thin clients. Dell is leveraging its acquisition of Perot in developing this offering.

Dell is moving

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Oracle, Apple, and the VMwareCiscoEMC coalition

So far we have dedicated a lot of space to Oracle, in terms of what virtualization offering it could provide and what mistakes may compromise its presence as a relevant player.

The Sun acquisition has not closed yet, so the company cannot disclose any specific plan. Without concrete information about that, what we have published so far, and what follows below, is pure speculation.
Nonetheless it’s worth spending some more time evaluating the strategy that Oracle may put in place and how it may impact the current players.

As already said many times, now the company is

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HP Expands Thin Client Portfolio

Many of you probably keep hearing me say, “you can’t just buy desktop virtualization”. Unlike server virtualization where you can just buy a hypervisor and you are off to the races, desktop virtualization will impact IT architecture decisions, endpoint choice, application management and user experience.

HP just announced some interesting new solutions that extend the value of the company’s thin computing portfolio to include:

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The Horsemen and IBM

It was recently brought to my attention that the market had re-shapen quite significantly over the last year to two years so I thought it worth noting why. It appears the IBM model has had far-reaching effects with the most recent Acadia organization made by Cisco, EMC, and VMware as well as the success HP has seen with EDS so far. Here is a services-oriented list on the transformation of organizations lately. I am paying careful attention to number 5 and 6 for new announcements and future events.

1)IBM
2)Cisco, EMC, VMware
3)HP - EDS
4)Dell - Perot
5)Oracle
6)NetApp, Brocade, Citrix

Outlyers Microsoft & Google

Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled

Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call Vblocks, preconfigured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.

Vblocks will be sold by Cisco, EMC and VMware to

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Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity Makes Windows 7 Migration for Enterprise Desktops Easy

Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the leader in User Experience Management for next generation desktops, today announced immediate availability of enterprise scale Microsoft Windows 7® migration support in Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity.

With Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7 this month many organizations are grappling with the challenge of getting existing enterprise desktop data from Windows XP to Windows 7. With so many unfocused, confusing, or inconsistent options for migration in the market today, ProfileUnity provides an intuitive solution with consistent and reliable results to the user and data migration problem facing the industry. ProfileUnity seamlessly harvests native Windows user personalization data, email, and documents from Windows 2000 and XP and places it in Windows 7, all with zero end-user touch.

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Cisco, EMC, and VMware join hands and plunge into cloud

Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware this morning announced the formation of a new joint venture called Acadia and a stack of data centre servers, storage, networking.

The venture will also peddle software called Vblock for companies who want to buy preconfigured virtual and cloudy infrastructure.

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Windows 7 with RDP7: Best OS for VDI

In the minds of IT admins looking to enable a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, Windows XP has by far been the preferred OS running in the VMs. However, with the arrival of Windows 7, IT admins have several important reasons, as outlined in this blog, to reconsider. In fact, an upcoming RDP Performance Whitepaper will provide a rich set of data to convince even the most skeptical critics that Windows 7, with its enhanced user experience, performance on the wire, and security outshines Windows XP as the virtualized guest OS of choice.

When users connect to a Windows 7 VM, the RDP7 protocol will be used to communicate between client and VM if RDP 7 or Remote Desktop Connection 7 (RDC7) client is used. RDC7 client is offered on variety of OSs, including XPSP3, Vista SP1 and Vista SP2 and the same client is part of the Windows 7 OS (see blog post for more details: Announcing the availability of Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows Vista SP2 ).

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Liquidware Labs Launches Stratusphere 4.5

ALPHARETTA, GA, October 26th, 2009 - Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL), the leader in User Experience Management for next generation desktops, today announced the availability of version 4.5 of its flagship product, Stratusphere, and the award of its fourth patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
LWL is seeing a huge upsurge in the deployments of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD) based on its award-winning assessment and service level assurance solution Stratusphere. The latest 4.5 version includes significant feature enhancements to enable businesses to thoroughly understand what they have, what they're using, and what they need to move to VDI; including:

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