Archive for January, 2009

Virtual Iron the quiet achiever

In the current tussle for hardware virtualization credibility it is pretty easy to overlook some of the other competitors. Most organisations looking at virtualization projects are probably only looking at the three major players for Intel and AMD based servers. These players are:

VMware – VMWare ESX/Infrastructure software has provided hardware virtualization for several years.
Citrix – [...]

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Stream OpenOffice 3 with Citrix

Lately I have been working a fair bit with application streaming in my environment. This week, in fact, we have cut over part of the environment to application streaming instead of application publishing. Taking into account the known limitations and slight differences between local application installation and application streaming everything is going really well.
I have [...]

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VMware View 3 extended feature review

A week or so ago I briefly commented about the release and features of VMware View 3.
This was pretty light on. If you are looking for a more detailed review and best practice guide for implementing View 3 then you will want to read the three part series by Roland van der Kruk on brianmadden.com.
This [...]

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Open Cloud Consortium sets the standard

The rapid development cloud based services has presented technology consumers a big range of choice. Currently when you choose a cloud service provider or providers you need to consider the long term cloud strategy of your organisation. This is especially true if you are planning on using cloud based database and platform based services. The [...]

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