Numescent, OnLive Desktop, and Moka5 are some companies to keep an eye on. Each has their own blend of offering desktops through a VDI service.
Numescent has introduced a new cloud paging system which breaks software into functional parts. When the user needs a different part of the code, that functional piece will be processed and set to the user and the unused sections will be released. This is an interesting strategy that would seem to keep bandwidth usage extremely low. This is my personal service of interest right now, why load it all when you only need a fraction?
Moka5 offers a more simple and streamlined approach to Client-side VDI. It is a much cheaper way of using VDI compared to the traditional server based VDI. The "Golden Image" they talk about seems to be effective if you are only implementing one image, but I would like to see how the system works when multiple images are necessary.
Onlive Desktop is a ramped up version of offering Operating Systems as a Service(OSaaS). Onlive runs a vanilla Windows OS on a server and the user is allowed to save data to that OS. That data can be transferred between the device and the server effectively allowing you to run Windows on your mobile device. One thing to watch out for is that Microsoft says that Onlive currently violates their licensing.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Another Co-op Bites the Dust
Wow, so it's been awhile...long enough for me to finish off another co-op. I am just finishing up a Co-op with JCPenney as a software tester. I worked on an item management application performing all sorts of testing. My main job was to perform initial testing, retesting, regression, and user acceptance testing. I also worked with the load tester to begin accumulating an understanding of load testing and all it entails. This was really a neat co-op as we got to be with the company before and after Ron Johnson's changes to the business and it's vision.
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