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- Unlock the Power of Server Virtualisation
- Citrix XenServer is the simplest and most efficient way to virtualize and provision servers to deliver a dynamic datacenter - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer enables IT organizations to break the bonds between servers and workloads, giving them the ability to create dynamic datacenters....
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Citrix XenServer, Data Centers, Storage, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-09-03
- SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer
- Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...
- Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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- Can virtualization help when times get tough?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Teaching telecommuting
- I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...
- Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...
- Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Citrix desktop virtualization
- I've been thinking about a virtual desktop demonstration Citrix presented at its analyst day a few weeks ago. I posted a bit about my experiences see Mark Templeton shares his vision at Citrix event, but haven't been able to post reviews on everything I saw there. Their desktop virtualization demonstration...
- Tags: Desktop, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- How can virtualization help when the economy falters?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thought
- There has been a fair share of speculation that SOA will blend in one form or another into Web Oriented Architecture or Software-as-a-Service SaaS in the foreseeable future, and this discussion has appeared frequently on this blogsite. (A discussion on SOA and WOA posted here. I also posted an account...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Appistry targets cloud computing
- If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments....
- Tags: Appistry, Supplier, Defintion, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- VirtualBox
- VirtualBoxVMs and RDPWe've been considering a similar VDI solution for our schools computer labs. (VM the xp/vista os and use thin clients to RDP to the VMed OSs) The main problem I'm run across is with streaming video over RDP doesn't work so well, which will be a problem for...
- Tags: Web site development, desktop virtualization, Web technology, Digital video, Corporate communications, RDP, VMware Inc., innotek VirtualBox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Live Webcast: Learn the Secrets of IT Help Desk Productivity and User Perception
- The IT help desk is the guardian of day-to-day business productivity, and more importantly, the front door to your IT organization. However, a Forrester survey reveals that only 53% of technology users at U.S. companies are satisfied with their help desk support. Does your IT Help Desk...
- Tags: Webcast, Information Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., IT Help Desk, Help Desk, Strategy, It Operations, Management
- Webcasts 2008-09-24
- Skytap making a home in the clouds
- I've been remiss in posting about Skytap. They spent some time with me prior to my trip to Citrix's bash in Scottsdale, AZ, and I've not found time to post about that interesting conversation about their new Skytap web services API. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Skytap,...
- Tags: Application, Environment, Cloud, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Cloud Courting: Round One
- VMware and Citrix want to be your cloud infrastructure provider. The competing virtual infrastructure makers announced dueling cloud initiatives this week aimed at providing xSPs with simple to deploy and buy cloud computing platforms that come from very different angles and may serve to bifurcate the mid to small market...
- Tags: XSP, Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
- As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V
- News items 2008-09-19
- VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization
- Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Desktop virtualization on display at VMworld
- One of the three pillars of Paul Maritz's VMworld Keynote address (see Notes from VMworld and Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V) focused on virtualizing the user desktop computing experience. He spoke of this like it was a new...
- Tags: Solution, Thin Client, High-performance, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS
- VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz right used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders at the VMworld 2008 conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. With the Virtual...
- Tags: Linux, Data Center, Linux Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VDC-OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Software, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
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