Recently, our virtualization practice team members met with Citrix Systems to discuss their product roadmap.  One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of this meetings is that Citrix is actively working with Apple to deliver MacOS as a virtual OS.  Although nothing has been finalized yet, this would be a huge coup for [...]

VMware’s latest version of its VDI offering will be released to customers next week.   Among some of the features being released in this version are support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, enhanced USB  device compatibility, and most importantly, PC over IP tunneling.  PC over IP tunneling will allow users to connect via the View [...]

Microsoft recently announced that the service packs for Windows 7  and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to OEM partners, and will be released to customers on February 22nd. Here is a list of interesting updates within each service pack: Windows 7 – Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is essentially a cumulative update [...]

Microsoft announced the release of the Windows 2008 SP1 public beta today at their Worldwide Partner Conference.    There are a couple of features being released in this service pack that are of particular interest, especially since they are geared toward enhancing the virtual desktop experience: Dynamic Memory lets Hyper-V administrators pool available memory on a physical host and dynamically [...]

On April 1st, VMware released a set of patches for ESX/ESXi as they do every month.  Included with this patch is an important fix to their software iSCSI initiator described as follows: In a software iSCSI environment, the iSCSI connection might go offline when multiple VMkernel NICs in the same subnet are used to access [...]