Archive for September 2008

VDI Design Guide

I ran across this doc while reading about the Qumranet acquisition. If you new to VDI it’s not a bad place to start. Please keep in mind that it was published in January 08 so many companies offerings have changed or been acquired since then ;-)

 VDI Design Guide

Qumranet

Last month I had the opportunity to kick the tires of Qumranet’s VDI offerering as well as the SpIcE protocol. I have to admit that the price and performace were rater intriguging, espesscially for a LAN based implementation such as a trading floor or hospitals.

Apparently I’m not the only person they impressesd as they just sold to RedHat for $107 M

Read more:

Red Hat buys Qumranet, sidesteps Microsoft

Red Hat’s $107 million virtualization gambit