VDI Stall: VDI Appliances solve the hardware problem so, what next?

January 23, 2013
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DesktopVirtualization

We've discussed the fact that VDI appliance makers were making good progress simplifying adoption of a virtual desktop infrastructure. An appliance-based route to market can be seen as win-win: being designed both to reduce cost and complexity of implementation (for the customer) and shorten sales cycles (for the vendor). So goes the theory. To understand…

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Cloud Products and Services

January 22, 2013
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CloudComputing

Cloud products and services are only in its infancy but new and exciting technology is being released at an incredible rate. One example of something new is Kim Dotcom's newly launched Mega cloud storage service with its free 50GBs of storage. What really got my attention with this announcement was that the data would be…

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News: Embotics Offers Upgrade at Net-Zero Cost for VMware Lab Manager Customers

January 22, 2013
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Embotics100x30

Embotics is offering a competitive upgrade program to organizations with VMware Lab Manager which will shortly be at end of life.

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News: Hotlink Enables Cross-Platform Cloud Management

January 22, 2013
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Hotlink100x30

Hotlink has extended its solution to allow cross-platform cloud management solutions like VMware vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Automation Center that use the vCenter, vCloud and PowerCII interfaces in vSphere to work consistently across vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM, and Amazon EC2

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Evaluating Clouds

January 21, 2013
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CloudComputing

When evaluating clouds there are three major criteria that are used first before we get into the nitty gritty of how the system works. The criteria is not always in writing but it is in the back of everyone's mind and in many cases are nebulous to define. Herein, I will try to look at…

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How Good an Idea to Virtualize XenApp?

January 17, 2013
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DesktopVirtualization

How good an idea to Virtualize XenApp? There were a number of benefits identified way back then: hardware abstraction allowing easier image management and OS upgrades; options for higher availability and faster recovery; even fail-over. Virtualization enabled silo consolidation and importantly enabled better management of user capacity on servers. However, there is a price. Reduced…

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Infrastructure as Code: From Bottleneck to Test-Driven

January 16, 2013
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agilecloud

Treating infrastructure as code and managing it using proven agile development practices leads to greater business agility

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – Managing Applications Performance

January 15, 2013
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PerformanceManagement

Virtualizing business critical applications and performance critical applications requires the use of modern virtualization aware and cloud aware APM tools that can easily adapt to large number of diverse and rapidly changing applications.

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