For many years we ve been hearing that the future of the desktop is going to be VDI. Clearly that hasn t happened. Server virtualization has been wildly successful, so why not VDI and desktop virtualization? It started when VDI vendors made wild promises in the mid-2000s. Some of them were true, some were a stretch, and some were just plain misleading. The VDI Delusion digs into these into these claims, taking a technical look at some of the common myths around desktop virtualization. It also examines practical reasons why many VDI pilots and proofs of concept fail to go full scale or just plain fail completely. Of course there are many good reasons to use VDI, which are also covered in this book. Brian, Gabe, and Jack aren t actually VDI haters they just don't like it when it s used inappropriately! They outline practical, concrete reasons for using VDI and other server-based computing solutions in addition to all the poor reasons people try and fail. The middle portion of The VDI Delusion examines why desktop virtualization is so difficult in the first place, and what organizations really want out of it. Taking a look at Windows desktops and how they re virtualized forces users to come up with a definition of a desktop that goes beyond a a Windows image, a laptop, or any other device. So is the PC dead? Is the keyboard and mouse dead? Is the desktop dead? Or is a desktop is really a collection of applications, data, and settings? Many of us know that Windows can be virtualized to deliver applications, data, and settings as a service, but now it s joined by mobile apps, SaaS, and web apps, and strained by users that want to do anything anywhere, anytime, from any device. These new technologies have many advantages while adding new challenges. Windows used to provide the framework for unifying apps, data, and settings. Now, how do we unify the delivery of apps, data, and settings when there are multiple kinds of apps (including legacy Windows applications) based on different platforms being delivered to different form factors? As delivering legacy Windows applications as a service is perfected, IT will learn how to manage apps, data, and user identity without the monolithic Windows framework to contain everything. The VDI Delusion discusses what approaches are out there right now and what challenges still remain. Is the PC really dead? What s the future of desktop computing? What role will Windows play? The final chapters of this book address all of these questions. Tabel of Contents 1. Why Are We Here? 2. The Promise of VDI 3. The Reality of VDI 4. Why Do VDI Projects Fail? 5. Desktop Virtualization Is More Than VDI 6. What Are You Trying to Solve? 7. Understanding Windows 8. What Is a Desktop? 9. How Do We Make Windows Do This? 10. Moving Beyond Windows Applications 11. Putting It All Together 12. The Future of the Desktop Brian Madden, Gabe Knuth, and Jack Madden are the team behind BrianMadden.com, BriForum, and ConsumerizeIT.com. BrianMadden.com receives millions of visitors a year, and is known for technical and independent information and opinions about desktop virtualization, VDI, and application delivery. BriForum is the industry s premier independent conference, held each year in Chicago and London, and ConsumerizeIT.com was launched in November 2011 to cover the consumerization of IT, bring your own device, and mobility. The VDI Delusion is the product of decades of combined experience writing, thinking, consulting, and speaking about desktop virtualization, server based computing, and application delivery.

The VDI Delusion: Why Desktop Virtualization Failed to Live Up to the Hype, and What the Future Enterprise Desktop Will Really Look Like

Computers & Technology

Jack Madden

Brian Madden

Gabe Knuth

Networking & Cloud Computing

Burning Troll Productions

Over the past few years, more and more employees have been demanding to do work from mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and Android phones and tablets. Back in days when BlackBerry dominated the market, dealing with mobility was easy for companies. But today's Android and iOS devices aren't so easy to manage, and the tasks that employees want to do with them far more advanced than what they did in the BlackBerry days. The enterprise mobility management (EMM) industry has responded with technologies like mobile device management (MDM), mobile app management (MAM), mobile virtualization, app wrapping, containerization, and mobile file syncing. All this technology is new, and it s evolving rapidly. The stakes are high: Thanks to the consumerization of IT, if a company doesn't figure out how to deal with mobility, users will bring in their own phones and tablets and do whatever they want anyway. Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD is your guide to figuring out how it all works. In this book, you'll will learn how MDM really works, what it does well, and what its limitations are; why IT s mindset has to evolve from locking down devices and networks to making data and applications accessible in a safe way; why the real challenge isn t personal devices, but mixing work and personal apps and data on a single device, regardless of whether they re personally-owned or corporate-deployed; how mobile app management works, and why (despite challenges) it may be the best approach for keeping corporate data secure; and how future developments could affect approaches to enterprise mobility management. This book is for people who have been tasked with figuring out BYOD. It s for companies who have only dealt with BlackBerry and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for years and want to know what s next. It s for desktop admins and architects who are now tasked with delivering applications and data to new platforms. And it's for the mobile managers who were happy with BES for the past ten years and now have to deal with users bringing in iPhones. Table of Contents: 1. The Mobile World 2. How Our Present Mobile Landscape Came to Be 3. Understanding iOS and Android (From an Enterprise Perspective) 4. Understanding Mobile Device Management 5. The Reality of Mobile Device Management 6. Early Attempts at Solving Mobility and Providing Dual Persona 7. Mobile App Management 8. The Core Apps for MAM: Email Clients, Mobile File Syncing, and Managed Browsers 9. Building a Corporate Ecosystem and Enabling Dual Persona 10. Dealing with BYOD 11. Putting it All Together: Deployment Considerations for EMM 12. The Future of Enterprise Mobility Management Jack Madden covers everything related to enterprise mobility management at BrianMadden.com, a website devoted to desktop virtualization, the consumerization of IT, and enterprise mobility. Jack has written hundreds of articles and spoken at BriForum, Citrix Synergy, VMworld and other events throughout the US and Europe. In addition to Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD, Jack co-authored The VDI Delusion in 2012 and The New VDI Reality in 2013.

Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD, 2013 Edition

The 2014 Edition of this book includes the latest information about iOS 7 and new types of mobile app management. Over the past few years, more and more employees have been demanding to do work from mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and Android phones and tablets. Back in days when BlackBerry dominated the market, dealing with mobility was easy for companies. But today's Android and iOS devices aren't so easy to manage, and the tasks that employees want to do with them far more advanced than what they did in the BlackBerry days. The enterprise mobility management (EMM) industry has responded with technologies like mobile device management (MDM), mobile app management (MAM), mobile virtualization, app wrapping, containerization, and mobile file syncing. All this technology is new, and it s evolving rapidly. The stakes are high: Thanks to the consumerization of IT, if a company doesn t figure out how to deal with mobility, users will bring in their own phones and tablets and do whatever they want anyway. Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD is your guide to figuring out how it all works. In this book, you'll will learn how MDM really works, what it does well, and what its limitations are; why IT s mindset has to evolve from locking down devices and networks to making data and applications accessible in a safe way; why the real challenge isn t personal devices, but mixing work and personal apps and data on a single device, regardless of whether they re personally-owned or corporate-deployed; how mobile app management works, and why (despite challenges) it may be the best approach for keeping corporate data secure; and how future developments could affect approaches to enterprise mobility management. This book is for people who have been tasked with figuring out BYOD. It s for companies who have only dealt with BlackBerry and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for years and want to know what s next. It s for desktop admins and architects who are now tasked with delivering applications and data to new platforms. And it s for the mobile managers who were happy with BES for the past ten years and now have to deal with users bringing in iPhones. Table of Contents: 1. The Mobile World 2. How Our Present Mobile Landscape Came to Be 3. Understanding iOS and Android (From an Enterprise Perspective) 4. Understanding Mobile Device Management 5. The Reality of Mobile Device Management 6. Early Attempts at Solving Mobility and Providing Dual Persona 7. Mobile App Management 8. The Core Apps for MAM: Email Clients, Mobile File Syncing, and Managed Browsers 9. Building a Corporate Ecosystem and Enabling Dual Persona 10. Dealing with BYOD 11. Putting it All Together: Deployment Considerations for EMM 12. The Future of Enterprise Mobility Management Jack Madden covers everything related to enterprise mobility management at BrianMadden.com, a website devoted to desktop virtualization, the consumerization of IT, and enterprise mobility. Jack has written hundreds of articles and spoken at BriForum, Citrix Synergy, VMworld and other events throughout the US and Europe. In addition to Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD, Jack co-authored The VDI Delusion in 2012 and The New VDI Reality in 2013.

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The VDI Delusion: Why Desktop Virtualization Failed to Live Up to the Hype, and What the Future Enterprise Desktop Will Really Look Like

Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD, 2013 Edition

Enterprise Mobility Management: Everything you need to know about MDM, MAM, and BYOD, 2014 Edition