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Elipica Services Deploys Neoware's Access Virtualization Products, Lowers Costs and Gains Ease of Deployment

I had an opportunity to chat with Brad Taylor, of Elipica Services, recently. During that discussion, I asked him a few questions about how his organization is using products from Neoware.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization.Brad is a Systems Architect for Elipica Services....

Tags: virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Brightstar Corporation Increases Security and Saves Money with Provision Networks

I had an opportunity to ask Anthony "Tony" Escarpenter, Infrastructure and Security, Brightstar Corporation, a few questions about how his organization is using tools from Provision Networks. Thanks Tony for finding time to communicate with me during a difficult time. I really appreciate it.Please tell me who you are and...

Tags: virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Sorting out the different layers of virtualization

Have you found yourself wondering what's wrong with all of the marketing mavens out there in virtualization land? It seems that everything is virtualization and nothing is virtualization.Over the years, I've developed a tool or a model that has helped my clients better understand all of the layers of...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual access software, Network Virtualization, Managing virtualized environments, application virtualization

Blog posts 2007-06-28

ClearCube removes performance and distance as objections to PC Blade computing

ClearCube announced new technology that eliminates the distance barrier long associated with delivering full performance video from centralized PC blades. The company is introduced the I9420, I9440 and the C7420, three new user port devices, at the SIFMA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit. These products make it possible for organizations...

Tags: virtualization, virtual access software

Blog posts 2007-06-20

How can meeting virtualization save the planet?

I was speaking with Greg Scott, a former colleague from Digital Equipment Corporation, recently about his company InfraSupport. Although his business focuses more on network infrastructure, such as firewalls, virus protection and spam filtering, InfraSupport has started down an interesting path towards helping organizations virtualize meetings at a very...

Tags: virtualization, virtual access software

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Are PC blade based virtual access solutions better than what you're doing now?

ClearCube just announced that they now have an OEM relationship with VMware. Their press release can be viewed here. Should your organization be deploying this type of solution for its task-oriented staff to better support the organizations requirements for efficient client-centric computing? Here's a quick SWOT analysis of the announcement.StrengthsThere...

Tags: virtualization, virtual machine software, virtual access software

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Access virtualization and green computing

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at access virtualization and the role it plays in green computing. Access virtualization, by the...

Tags: Green Computing, virtual access software, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack

Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Counter point to "Analysis: Can a Customer Be Too Small For Virtualization?"

Virtualization technology is just that, a technology. An organizations requirements and budget must be considered before a specific technology is selected. A technological choice that is perfect for the needs of one organization might just be the wrong choice for another. That being said, Small to Medium Businesses SMB...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Fault Tolerant and Fail Over is There a Difference?

Fault tolerant FT solutions go beyond HA fail over solutions to present an environment that is never seen to fail not merely an environment that survives a failure. Some suppliers of FT technology call this "fail through" rather than fail over. I thought that was a well known concept...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, remote access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat

It appears that this Blog has caught the attention of many companies offering various products for both software and hardware virtualization. Cassatt and Marathon Technologies are among the companies that contacted me. Im going to speak with representatives of both companies over the coming days. Ill post my thoughts...

Tags: virtualization, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Getting there virtually

Virtualization is a way to abstract applications and their underlying components away from the hardware supporting them. The goal usually is one of the following: higher levels of performance, scalability, reliability or to create a unified security or management domain. How does this relate to access to applications? In...

Tags: virtual access software, remote access software

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Additional Resources

Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud

RE: Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloudI still don't understand what in Azure is different for the better or worst than Amazon's or Rackspace's or other instant-server-on-demand cloud offerings.Interesting. Let's see if fellow ZDNet bloggers will acknowledge this..The more offerings, the better, as...

Tags: Blogging, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, dev, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Azure, open source, Google Inc., Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

MyCafeCup Platinum 2.22 build 2265 (Windows)

Internet cafe software and cybercafe software from MyCafeCup is a software solution for operating cyber cafe and gaming shops. Although it is designed for an Internet cyber cafe shop, it can be used for your intranet or for public access tracking as in a library, school or Public WiFi HotSpot....

Tags: Cafe, MyCafeCup Software, MyCafeCup Server, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-12-01

Intego FileGuard X5 10.5.3 (Mac)

FileGuard X5 creates virtual safes that can be used to store sensitive files. Users can store safes on file servers or external disks, and can keep them on home or office Macs with no risk of anyone opening them. They can even send FileGuard X5 safes to friends, family or...

Tags: Safe, Apple Macintosh, FileGuard X5, File Servers, Instant Messaging, Desktops, Construction, Apple Mac OS X, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Is it time to go quad-core?

Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...

Tags: Processors, cloud computing, quad-core, laptop computer, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Google Chrome OS has arrived as free VMWare download

Somebody will make it available in a more public area, I'm sure.Being that it's open source, somebody's going to make it available in a more public area, I'm sure. I'll wait until then.RE: Google Chrome OS has arrived as free VMWare downloadthat's not the real release... that's a linux based...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, VMware Inc., Chrome, operating system, Google Chrome OS, Google Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed

Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Is imminent Chrome OS launch reckless?

First Impressions"first impressions are extremely important."Yup, Vista SP1/SP2 is a good operating system. Microsoft botched the initial release of Vista, and it gave a good operating system a permanently bad name.reckless not sure dangerous surely i may sound stupid or ill inform but ...What will be Chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome, imminent Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-14