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By Tom Fenton
Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup.
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By Tom Fenton
In his final series article, Tom puts the nifty little device through all its VDI paces -- and likes what he sees.
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By Tom Fenton
In part 3 of his series on the SimplyNUC Moonstone mini-PC, Tom installs VMware Workstation on the device and runs and benchmarks the performance of a small and large Windows 10 VM.
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By Tom Fenton
In part 2 of his series, Tom benchmarks the device to have a baseline to compare the virtual machines he will run on it after installing VMware Workstation.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom gets his hands on SimplyNUC's most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, sticks Workstation on it and declares: "This thing is a beast in a very small package."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom does parallel testing of iSCSI and NFS, along with testing NFS SSD VMs, iSCSI SSD VMs, multimedia performance and more.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom checks its suitability for the mass storage and protection of his home and lab files and data.
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By Tom Fenton
After previous benchmarking tests, Tom attempts to install and run a bare-metal hypervisor on the low-priced, small form-factor PC.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom installs Workstation on an ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC to benchmark its performance running a small and large Windows 10 VM.
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By Tom Fenton
With an i7-1360P processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 NVMe device for storage, it should handle the most demanding home and office workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Sessions are divided into five tracks: Vision & Innovation, Cloud & Edge Infrastructure, Modern Applications & Cloud Management, Networking & Security and Hybrid Workforce.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton finds that Windows IoT Enterprise works fine as a base OS to run a thin client used to connect to a VDI desktop and a local desktop using RDP.
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By Tom Fenton
Tasked with rolling out virtual desktops to remote users with a new thin client, Tom discovers it runs Windows 11 IoT Enterprise. So what's that?
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By Tom Fenton
The marquee feature in Windows 365 Frontline, now in public preview, allowing each Frontline license purchased to have up to three users access the Cloud PC, albeit not at the same time.
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By Tom Fenton
"If you have a business that has seasonal spikes, DaaS makes a lot of sense."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton takes a look at Microsoft's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), which provides desktops that run in the cloud and which are managed and administrated by the cloud provider.
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By Tom Fenton
From the Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure to Architecting Horizon: The Official Reference Architecture, VMware Explore (formerly VMworld) is returning to an in-person format with many Horizon sessions of interest to Tom Fenton.
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Paul details where this hidden gem fits, where it doesn't, why you should care and coming improvements.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom points out a key factor that can make VDI a success and talks about one of the reasons it failed in the early days.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom takes a look at Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and hybrid infrastructure.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom explains how HCI works with VDI.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom looks at ways to offload UC processes from datacenter CPUs to VDI clients, monitoring remote assets and the benefits of using SD-WAN.
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By Tom Fenton
With the basics out of the way, Tom looks at some VDI techniques to increase performance and decrease costs.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously explaining what VDI is and its recent history, Tom dives in to specific components and some best practices around them.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom gives expert hands-on advice as more employers try to keep their employees happy working from home without risking a corporation's digital assets.