Top 10 VDI News Stories of 2013

This year was big news around the popular products of VMware VDI, Citrix and Amazon.

Improvements in VMware View and Horizon Mirage as well as Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop,belonged to the great attention to the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) field, but as the development of relations between the suppliers were. Teradici Corporation and VMware, Inc. seemed to have hit a rough patch, Citrix Systems Inc. customers start out with App-V from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services Inc. threw down the gauntlet to almost all on the market to question the desktop into the cloud hosted.

In fact, Desktop as a Service (DaaS), although still a new technology, grabbed more headlines and continues to find the balance in IT departments. Read about the biggest stories as they recap the top news VDI 2013

10. New VMware View features revealed

Ahead of VMworld 2013, there was much excitement about what's to come in the next version of Vista. Security and network expansion, as well as changes to the Teradici PCoIP hardware acceleration, were some of the rumors that exciting supplements for companies hoping to VDI view were to improve performance. Read on to learn about the latest news about View 5.3, when we finally learn to know.

9. A VMware-Teradici split on the horizon?

If VMware came out with its HTML5, explosive, questioned whether a protocol clients sharing between the provider and VMware PCoIP Teradici was imminent. A schism between the two companies is unlikely, however, because there are so many relationships with vendors with PCoIP are connected, and the protocol was the key to the success of Horizon View.

8. VMware's Virtual SAN hits beta

VDI environments have large memory requirements, which may vary depending on the application. In response, producers with tools to improve performance, such as VMware Virtual SAN come. Calculate the cluster disks of server products and flash, and there is an attached storage pools and data warehouse to make more power and speed for the end user. But virtual SAN is in direct competition with some of VMware partners, and many other vendors are competing with their own offers innovative storage.

7. Mirage 4.3 supports View desktops, physical and virtual

Horizon Mirage 4.3 software physical desktop management of VMware now supports persistent, and virtual desktops. Mirage separates the physical desktop images in layers to compensate for end-user personalization and control of IT. Also features traditional desktop management features, but the ability to handle a single image across physical and virtual desktops is a big problem for the View clients. This message indicates VDI System Center Configuration Manager Microsoft a run for their money.

6. Affordable VDI does exist

As some companies have lost or used has acquired the list of affordable options VDI shrunk, but not completely severed. An IT department with a budget 760 thin clients deployed NComputing virtual desktop software and seven Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines are running. Other affordable alternative to Citrix, VMware and Microsoft are the Dell Wyse Search Combo, Ericom Software Inc. and Armor5 Inc.

5. Shadowing returns in Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows 8.1 could want about any updates that desktop administrators not, but Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services has some improvements that could make for them. Features include on-line data deduplication works with permanent and non-permanent virtual desktops in a seamless window capability makes one feel at home remote application users, RemoteFX some adjustments to improve the utilization of bandwidth and compression, and the return of shading.

4. Finding ways around VDA

VDI is getting cheaper, but Microsoft Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) license in the way. Companies must VDA to deliver virtual desktops, and is included with Software Assurance, but only for Windows devices. Everything else costs $ 100 per device per year. DaaS stores have ways to engage licensing is through Windows Server as a client operating system, even if this setting is not ideal, because the application compatibility and pressure can be problematic.

3. Amazon dives into DaaS with WorkSpaces

This year, some of the most important news of the VDI Workspace Amazon has a cannonball into the pool hosted desktop cloud. The desktop as a service offering allows IT to manage centrally and desktop images without the hardware, software and infrastructure costs in VDI deployments. Workspaces support persistent sessions, and no need to establish a long-term commitment, Amazon, only a monthly fee that Amazon says that it will make up about half of the VDI-in-house costs.

2. With XenApp-XenDesktop 7 combo, Citrix simplifies VDI

Brought Avalon Project management and delivery of XenDesktop and XenApp under one roof: Flexcast management architecture.Citrix cooked the number of management consoles from 20 to two, and the installation time for the basic package now takes only about 20 minutes. It is also important for applications compatible with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, and more options for desktop and application delivery to mobile devices added automatic publishing.

1. Citrix ditches Application Streaming

At Citrix Synergy 2013, the company touted new features of XenApp and XenDesktop, but did not mention that application streaming has died. Customers can continue to migrate with application streaming on their existing XenApp deployments to Windows Server 2012. After migration, the stores will have switch to Microsoft App-V. Citrix announced to leave streaming applications, because changes in Server 2012 would be required to have a major overhaul of XenApp that support this function. Migration is not a pain for customers to XenDesktop 7 Upgrade For AppDNA comes with that makes the jump to App-V.