desktop virtualization
Introducing FlashStack 5000-user VDI deployment with Cisco and Pure Storage
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Digital business transformation is driving renewed interest in desktop and app virtualization as a mean to provide secure application and desktop delivery to a mobile, distributed and fluctuating workforce. Keeping the desktops and apps securely centralized in the data center provides many benefits. It eases the headache associated with managing thousands of desktops, keeps your […]
Deliver GPU-Accelerated Virtual Workstations from the Data Center
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It’s that time of year again! April 4th kicks off NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose California. If you’ve never heard of GTC or wonder what goes on at a “Graphics Conference”, you might be surprised by the breadth of technology and solutions that surround this event. With everything from self-driving cars, gaming, […]
Accelerate Large Scale VDI Success with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage
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We are just a few days away from Pure//Accelerate conference in San Francisco. For one thing, I’m excited about going to a San Francisco conference that is not held at the Moscone Conference Center. Pier 48 is a great location, just across from the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark where I spent many a cold and […]
Agile Application Delivery with UCS-Powered VDI
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We’re off to another edition of VMworld with some great technology to showcase. Our theme this year is your data center is everywhere, the center of innovation. And talking about innovation we will be demoing some recent work around our desktop virtualization solution with VMware. We will have demo pods showcasing our UCS solutions for […]
Changing the Economics of Desktop and App Virtualization at the Enterprise Edge
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In my last post I discussed how Cisco UCS Mini is helping us expand beyond the traditional confines of the data center, to deliver desktop and app virtualization with exceptional user experience, manageability and TCO savings – at the enterprise edge. We’re only going to see more investment and focus in this space, thanks to […]
Configuring Virtual Environments for Graphics-Intensive Applications (C240+XenDesktop+NVIDIA)
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The Guild of St Luke in Florence, where Leonardo Da Vinci qualified as a master sculptor when he was only 20 years old, had in attendance both artists and doctors of medicine. While someone today might wonder what those two vocations have in common, someone from the Italian Renaissance would not. Michelangelo and Leonardo Da […]
Taking Desktop Virtualization Beyond the Data Center – with the Next Wave of Unified Computing
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If you look back at the Cisco UCS launch on September 4th, and VMworld SF just prior, the last 4 weeks have been a tsunami of solution innovation milestones in unified computing, ie: where the next wave of Unified Computing is taking us. If you haven’t already seen the launch event “Powering Applications at Every […]
The #1 x86 Blade Server Is Also Your Best Choice for VMware Horizon
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In case you missed it, last week Cisco partners, ecosystem, and customers everywhere applauded the latest IDC worldwide server tracker report citing Cisco UCS as the revenue market share leader in North America, eclipsing HP for the top spot in x86 blades. Cisco VP/GM Paul Perez said it best: “Customers are adopting UCS because our […]
Powering the New Citrix Mobile Workspace – built on Cisco UCS
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Did you catch the news from Cisco and Citrix yesterday? Here at Citrix Synergy, we announced the new Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix. This new jointly integrated solution brings together best of breed technologies from both companies to deliver a pervasively accessible end user workspace – One that can be delivered on any device, […]
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