Acceleration Software for Business-Critical Applications

In a Terminal Server environment with a bunch of users each running several applications, what happens when one instance of an application ends up consuming a lot of CPU resources? What's the impact? If the user had been running this application on his desktop, it would have only slowed down his other applications. In a terminal server environment where the server resources are shared, this one application instance impacts all the other users...

Recently, there's been a flurry of activity at RTO Software since VMware announced that it was acquiring three of RTO's products. Essentially, VMware did not acquire RTO Software. However, VMware did acquire RTO technology-specifically Discover, PinPoint, and Virtual Profiles...

Since the announcement at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, we've had lots of questions about the OEM agreement between VMware and RTO Software that slates RTO Virtual Profiles software for inclusion in a future version of VMware View. Here are the answers to a few of them...

Virtera's Daniel Beveridge hosted one of the more interesting Desktop Virtualization Breakout Sessions at VMworld 2009 called Efficient VDI Design - The Math Behind VDI. (VMworld 2009 attendees and VMworld.com subscription owners may login and view the full session.) Daniel is tasked with making VDI designs efficient for his clients. These days his clients are facing the challenge of getting past desktop virtualization product selection...

The Virtual Profiles 2.0 (beta) has a cool new feature we call 'Live Sync'. This feature increases the value of Microsoft App-V when using remote sessions or roaming profiles. An issue arises when App-V users run a sequenced application in two sessions simultaneously - say perhaps - VDI or Terminal Services and a physical desktop...

Part 1: The Effect of Citrix Presentation Server 4.0

Performance and scalability are essential for your terminal services farms. However, an understanding of the true scalability of the terminal services or Citrix Presentation Server environments represents the Holy Grail for terminal server architects planning rollouts in such environments. Unfortunately, most testing environments fail to comprehend...