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VDI Drones 3.2 has been released. Find out what’s new

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The team over at VDI Drones (a.k.a. performance guru’s) informed me about their latest (major) release; version 3.2. I thought I’d do brief write-up on what’s new. In short, VDI Drones is benchmarking software aimed at corporate environments/users. VDI Drones lets you benchmark and/or loadtest everything from 1 up to 10.000 machines with just a few mouse clicks. No scripting knowledge required.

The obvious, less obvious and your (tech) predictions for 2020 and beyond…

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To start, I think that predicting technological developments or trends on a yearly basis is not the way to go. It doesn’t really work like that. “predicting” probably isn’t the best word either. A product, trend, proposition, or technology slowly evolves into something bigger, when successful that is (hence the “develop” or “trend” entitlement). Saying that 2020 will be the year of xxx isn’t fair, at least not without proper context. I’ll try and explain what I mean by this.

Video calling using Microsoft Teams from a Citrix VDI environment – tricking Chrome

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How I tricked the HdxBrowserCef.exe (Chrome Browser) process into presenting itself as an Edge Browser enabling the best of both worlds.

Transitioning to the Windows Virtual Desktop using Liquidware solutions

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A couple of months ago I wrote about how Liquidware and Microsoft’s WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop) are better together, read more here. Today I’d like to talk a bit on how Liquidware solutions help in transitioning to the new WVD offering, including the on boarding process as well as continues management and monitoring once in production.

VDI Drones – 2019 update

Average time to read: 4 minutesRemember when I told you about VDI Drones, back in September 2018? No? Click the link below if you would like to learn more. Anyway, since then we got a ton of feedback. In this post, we’d like to share what has happened in the meantime. Again, we would like to thank you all for your time and efforts throughout the last couple of months, to say you’ve been helpful would be a major understatement.

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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop and Liquidware – better together

Average time to read: 4 minutesDuring Microsoft Ignite Microsoft announced their Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) offering, available on Microsoft Azure exclusively. It provides users with a full, multi-user Windows 10 experience virtualized in the Cloud and always up to date and available on every device.

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Liquidware Stratusphere UX just got a big update

Average time to read: 4 minutesThroughout my time at Liquidware Stratusphere UX was always one of the favorites, during customer visits, demo’s, tech sessions, you name it. Not really surprising, since detailed insights into what’s happening from a technical as well as user perspective is a very important part of the end user experience and ongoing (never ending, it seems) management puzzle. This applies to on-premises as much as it does to various cloud environments, never mind which one.

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Direct IP printing for the masses. Easy and effective

Average time to read: 5 minutesDirect IP printing is where you print directly from your desktop machine (a physical one, in most cases) to a print device, meaning no print servers or other infrastructural components sit in between. This isn’t new technology, though, the way you handle or manage such a setup has changed over time. How can we take advantage of direct IP printing without the drawbacks that usually come with it? That’s what I’d like to discuss today.

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Introducing: VDI Drones – Mass bench-marking and load testing, easy as pie

Average time to read: 14 minutesAbout two weeks ago I had the pleasure to sit down with Dennis Smith – founder and owner of Gourami software. Dennis and I have known each other for a couple of years now and I’ve come to know Dennis as real IT nerd with a big passion for developing software – free (community) software, as well as various ‘paid for’ solutions. Today I would like to introduce you to VDI Drones, a new product released by Gourami aimed at benchmarking/load testing your virtual and underlying physical infrastructure.

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Windows applications still rule the universe, on-premises SBC/VDI deployments are still king, cloud on the rise

Average time to read: 7 minutesLast month (May 2018) Login VSI and Frame presented the results of their State of the VDI and SBC union world-wide survey – the 2018 edition. Mark Plettenberg (Product Manager at Login VSI) and Ruben Spruijt (CTO at Frame) have put together a 66-page document holding all kinds of interesting VDI and SBC related statistics. The survey was completed by 755 people worldwide – go here to download your own copy. I went through the report and picked out a couple of subjects which are currently of most interest, or to me anyway.

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