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Virtual Bridges Volunteer Effort ? Spring Service Day 2012

Virtual Bridges was but one company amongst 23 others who teamed up with the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas for their Spring Service Day, a great cause that took place on Friday, May 18, 2012 here in our own backyard in Austin, TX. In all, more than 550 volunteers showed up that day to truly [...]

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Posted on Mon, 21 May 2012 19:15:22 +0000

So is THIS the Year of Desktop Virtualization?

Barb Darrow, with GIGAOM, recently wrote an interesting article titled, “Is it the year of desktop virtualization yet?” where she calls out pundits for declaring each of the last few years as “the year” for desktop virtualization or for stating the technology was “right around the corner.” And Barb is right… the fact is, the [...]

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Posted on Mon, 21 May 2012 15:09:35 +0000

The Question of Scale in a VDI Deployment

In one of Brian Madden’s latest blog posts for TechTarget magazine, he brings up a really good question about “scale” in a VDI deployment. With “How do you stop a VDI deployment in its tracks? Scale up!” – Madden writes: It’s often said that VDI is one of the most piloted yet least rolled-out [...]

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Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 19:32:41 +0000

Now Hiring! New Product Manager Position at Virtual Bridges

Check it out! Virtual Bridges has added a new position to its career page: Product Manager The Product Manager (PM) is responsible for bringing marketing, engineering and customer facing technical knowledge to bear on Virtual Bridges products and the Desktop Virtualization market. The PM will be the sole person responsible for the product roadmap and [...]

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Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 17:48:31 +0000

VMware ESX Source Code Leaked Online by Hacker

Iain Mulholland, Director of the VMware Security Response Center, announced the news of a source code leak on one of VMware’s corporate community blogs, where he stated that a single file from VMware’s ESX hypervisor source code was leaked and posted online.� Beyond that, he also alluded to the fact that even more proprietary files [...]

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Posted on Fri, 04 May 2012 14:46:03 +0000

Interesting BYOD InfoGraphic Focused on Security

Security solution provider ESET recently published an interesting “Bring Your Own Device” or BYOD security InfoGraphic worth sharing.� They write: “The phenomenon of organizations allowing or encouraging their employees to use their own computing devices for work?known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD?is now widespread in many countries, bringing with it some serious risks [...]

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Posted on Thu, 03 May 2012 18:02:16 +0000

IBM STASH: System z Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ? VDI on Steroids

IBM Software’s Impact 2012 event is the premier conference for business and IT leaders, bringing together more than 9,000 technology and business professionals at a single event.� And Impact 2012 is being held April 29th through May 4th, 2012 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the must see presentations during the show [...]

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Posted on Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:37 +0000

Microsoft Updates VDI/VDA FAQ Document. Provides Clarification?

If you thought Microsoft licensing for VDI was confusing, you aren’t alone.� Does it have to be?� Probably not.� But is it?� Well, yes, it is.� In fact, it can be quite upsetting to folks.� And it’s so confusing and frustrating that Microsoft has had to create an entire 6 page FAQ document in order [...]

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Posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:40:04 +0000

Bowling for Charity at the 2012 Austin Cup Invitational Bowling Tournament

At Virtual Bridges, when we aren’t busy creating the most complete desktop virtualization software solution on the market, we’re out there playing hard, having a good time, and finding inner peace. And on Saturday, April 21st, 2012, we were out there bowling for charity. Congratulations to our 2012 Virtual Bridges? bowling team, The Bowling Stones, [...]

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Posted on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:33:42 +0000

2014 is the End of Windows XP as We Know It, Do You Feel Fine?

The message is clear — Windows XP support will end in two years! Unless Microsoft was willing to come out and give actual figures, it’s hard to say just how big the current Windows XP install base really is, but we have a pretty good idea that it is still enormous considering it’s age. In [...]

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Posted on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:12:29 +0000