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DABCC Virtualization News Player iPhone App Available on Apple App Store

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:03:00 PST

?I?m extremely happy to announce the release of the DABCC Virtualization News Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch for download from Apple?s App Store!? ? Doug Brown...

Wanova: A New Face In The Virtual Desktop Space

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:30:00 PST

There are many complexities to desktop virtualization like user personalization, settings, image management, offline capability, etc, but there is one company that seems to have the answer to a lot of the complexity around implementing and managing virtual desktops. I caught wind of Wanova recently and have been digging into the solution. I spoke to Michele Borovac at Wanova recently and she gave me the run down of who Wanova is and what their product, Mirage, is and how they are resolving so...

Are Business IT Investment ROI Expectations Making Virtual Desktop Projects Harder To Do?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:00:00 PST

I spend a lot of my time talking to CIOs, CTOs, and business-side executives and how to better integrate IT into the strategic fabric of organizations. I was having a discussion recently with an IT executive from a major corporation around his expectation of virtual desktops and he made a statement that started me thinking; his business executives are requiring a six month, or sometimes less, return-on-investment (ROI) on significant IT projects, "can a virtual desktop project give me tha...

DynamicOps Integrates Virtual Resource Manager with BMC Blade Logic Ops Manager

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:00:00 PST

I wrote about DynamicOps back in October when I highlighted them as one of my 2009 VMWorld vendors to watch. On Monday, DynamicOps announced that they have integrated their Virtual Resource Manager with BMC's Blade Logic Ops Manager product. DynamicOps has now increased its options in helping its customers in automating the deployment of OS images and applications in a standard and consistent manner thereby increasing agility and reducing TCO in customer environments....

Citrix XenDesktop 4 Licensing: Some Q&A

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

Everyone has been very focused on the licensing changes around XenDesktop 4 recently, including me. I took some time to do some digging recently based on numerous customer inquiries and I wanted to share some of the most popular questions and answers. ...

Citrix and Microsoft: It's No Love-fest In The Field

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:00 PST

We have all heard many times over that Citrix and Microsoft are the best of friends and the relationship between the two market leaders is all roses. Well that may be the case at the corporate level, but it's a completely different story down on the field level where "the rubber meets the road" and customers are involved....

Why Information Technology to Business Technology Is Taking Longer Than Expected?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

It's mainly around Forrester Research's CEO George Colony who has a quest, as I do, to transform "information technology" to "business technology". George, and his team of analysts at Forrester, think that it's as simple as a name change that will help power this transformation. Just changing a name won't do it, there needs to be a vision and then solid execution from the CIO all the way down to the most junior server admin....

Enough Is Enough - Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave is a Waste of Time - E-Mail Works - Top Twitter and Facebook Users Are Lazy - Suck It

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:35:00 PST

I?m back with another rant and this time it is not about Citrix or VMware and/or even Microsoft. In fact, those companies have nothing at all to do with this rant but I need to get this off my chest as it is long overdue. It is all about ?too many clients? and the people that use them. Don?t worry; I will make it short?...

VMworld 2009 Vendor Spotlight: Dynamic Ops

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:07:00 PDT

VMworld's Solution Exchange floor was packed with many vendors covering many aspects of virtualization. As I made my way around the floor talking to these vendors, I was very impressed with what one was doing. I stopped at the booth of DynamicOps and spoke to Rich Bourdeau about what DynamicOps is all about and what they bring to the industry....

Citrix Licensing Changes for XenDesktop 4.0..Part Deux

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:20:00 PDT

Citrix has listened to the community and has created a flexible licensing model for XenDesktop 4.0...