31 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Things I Remember About 2011 – Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi 5, Thin Storage and More…

10 Things I Remember About 2011- Cloud, vCoud Director,  AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi  5, Thin Storage and More… A lot more than 10 things happened in 2011, but here are the 10 things I remember looking back on this New Years-Eve Day: 1. Cloud became more than a buzz-word. 2. VMware’s vCloud Director was [...]

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13 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Cloud.com is now part of Citrix Systems!

Today I got this email and it reminded me that I met with the owner of Cloud.com at VMWorld last year and asked him who would eventually own Cloud.com and CloudStack, I should have known since at the time XenSource was one of the only supported hypervisors. Dear Joe, Yesterday Cloud.com reached an important milestone [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<< Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop?

Hello, I’ve been researching whether to use VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop for a large VDI deployment at my work. Recently I had both companies demo their products and I must say I was impressed with both. XenDesktop has a feature called FlexCast that intelligently adjusts the DVI solution to available bandwidth, where-as View has [...]

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