As we wind our way deeper into the holiday season, I am reminded that all it takes is one IF clause to ruin your day. Or even to ruin your holiday, if a change was made during a continuous integration cycle. Just because we can speed up and automate tasks does not mean we always …
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I was recently asked how a specialized application could be moved to the cloud. The vendor went to a group of folks who claimed to put applications in the cloud and basically never heard back from them. Why? Most cloud providers want tenants to do most if not all of the work of moving their …
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In my overview of Desktop as a Service (DaaS) delivery models last month, I touched on availability services, an emerging market that shows strong potential for future growth, and on DaaS services specifically tailored to disaster recovery. Now, fresh from witnessing the slightly embarrassing spectacle of San Francisco grinding to a halt after a little light …
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At first glance, desktop virtualization seems fairly simple. Just deliver an operating system image, tune it, set the policies required, persist the user state, and you’re good to go. Right?
Oh, the irony in IT. Early in my career, the Windows operating system dominated the corporate world, until Linux came along and presented an alternative to Windows dominance. Flash forward to today, and now both Amazon and Google, two of the largest cloud computing platforms that have Linux supporting the hypervisor, are able to support …
Peripherals are supposed to be redirected in a virtualization environment, but they don’t always subscribe to plug ’n play. Even more important is the question of whether IT organizations should permit all peripherals for all users from a security and business perspective.
