Archive for 6. November 2008

Free virtual desktop manager

6. November 2008 by Tony.

DeskMan is a virtual desktop manager. If you are running many applications at the same time, this tool makes it easier for you to keep track of all of them. DeskMan lets you have several virtual desktops on your computer. This gives you the possibility to keep a few applications in each virtual desktop.

There are a number of virtual desktop applications available but the goal with DeskMan is to get more functionality that is managed in an easy way. Therefore, DeskMan is under development all the time and if you have suggestions of features that DeskMan doesn’t handle, send an email with your comments.

DeskMan can be configured to start automatically when windows is started. When DeskMan is started the first time, the user will be asked if a shortcut shall be placed in the startup folder. The option can always be changed in the Properties dialog. http://www.vik.cc/daniel/portfolio/deskman.htm

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Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 include virtualization

6. November 2008 by Tony.

st week, Gartner concluded their Gartner Symposium/ITxpo event that took place in Orlando. Here, the IT analysts highlighted and presented their findings of the top 10 technologies and trends that the analyst firm believes will be strategic for most organizations in 2009.Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

Not surprisingly, virtualization made the firm’s top 10 list. However, they didn’t limit virtualization to the widely popular server virtualization technology. They also included storage and client devices because of their rapid movement.

Gartner stated, “Virtualization to eliminate duplicate copies of data on the real storage devices while maintaining the illusion to the accessing systems that the files are as originally stored (data deduplication) can significantly decrease the cost of storage devices and media to hold information.”

Perhaps more interesting to note is the firm’s prediction on VDI adoption:

Despite ambitious deployment plans from many organizations, deployments of hosted virtual desktop capabilities will be adopted by fewer than 40 percent of target users by 2010.

Also interesting to note, cloud computing has made Gartner’s list of strategic technologies for 2009. In 2008, cloud computing was quickly added to most people’s buzz word bingo games.

Gartner writes, “Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. The key characteristics of cloud computing are 1) delivery of capabilities ‘as a service,’ 2) delivery of services in a highly scalable and elastic fashion, 3) using Internet technologies and techniques to develop and deliver the services, and 4) designing for delivery to external customers.”

And they added, “Although cost is a potential benefit for small companies, the biggest benefits are the built-in elasticity and scalability, which not only reduce barriers to entry, but also enable these companies to grow quickly. As certain IT functions are industrializing and becoming less customized, there are more possibilities for larger organizations to benefit from cloud computing.”

(Source: infoworld.com)

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Microsoft announces they’ll have their own connection broker… in 2010

6. November 2008 by Tony.

BETA: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) v1 beta

image Microsoft® Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V, formerly known as Kidaro) enhances deployment, management and user experience for Virtual PC images on a Windows® Desktop, independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system (OS). MED-V leverages Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to provide an enterprise solution for desktop virtualization streamlining OS upgrades, and increasing IT control and user flexibility in enterprise environments.

MED-V solution for Application-to-OS incompatibility accelerates the upgrade path to Windows Vista®. Applications that cannot be installed on Windows Vista® or have not been fully tested on Windows Vista® may be installed by the administrator in a virtual machine that runs a previous version of the OS (e.g., Windows XP or Windows 2000) and operate in their native, supported environment.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization is an integral tool in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, a dynamic solution available to Software Assurance customers that helps reduce application deployment costs, enable delivery of applications as services, and better manage and control enterprise desktop environments.

MED-V beta release will become available early 2009.  Please fill in the nomination survey to qualify for participation in the beta.

Note:  MED-V usage requires subscription licensing of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) For more details about how to license MDOP please refer to:

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