It’s the state of the clouds! As we float further along into 2016, the overall state of affairs for cloud services remains very strong, with over fifty percent year-to-year growth being reported in the fourth quarters of 2014 and 2015. Moving right along into 2016, the absolute growth should continue, with the largest growth opportunity …
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Introducing New Citrix Monitoring Checklist White Paper
Many IT departments view new or recently migrated XenApp/XenDesktop implementations as complete when users start accessing the production environment successfully. However, the use of a monitoring tool is often overlooked. The Virtualization Practice has published a new checklist-style white paper entitled Monitoring for Your Citrix® Infrastructure: Considerations and Checklist to help you determine how to …
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Show Me the Documents
One of the things I find very peculiar is the tendency of companies to hide their documentation. Sometimes the documentation is available only to existing customers, behind a login on the support site. At other times, the only documentation is the online help. Often the only things available to prospective customers are a few shiny …
Will 2016 Be the Year When Containers Take Off?
Will 2016 be the year that containers take off? In my humble opinion we are not to a place where containers are mainstream yet, but all indications seem to indicate that interest in containers continues to rise. VMware has recently open-sourced its Photon Platform and to help channel people’s interest in the new platform, VMware has created the Photon Platform Devbox that brings the power of the Photon Platform right to your desktop or laptop via VMware Fusion and/or VMware Workstation.
Size of an Elephant: Why the Ability to Scale Is Important in Design
When I was a small child, I used to enjoy watching a Japanese language program. Called Monkey, it was all about a disruptive monkey with a massive ego. The monkey was turned into immortal being that could shrink and grow and travel on a flying cloud. Punished by the heavens for its transgressions, it was traveling with a …
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Citrix: What’s New at Summit?
Citrix Summit kicked off for partners yesterday with a number of announcements. Although the conference is focused on partners, many of the announcements have a downstream impact on enterprise users.