Citrix’s much-anticipated XenDesktop Essentials product is now almost ready for release. A few days ago, it released pricing and purchasing options, which are intended to allow those interested in the platform to start planning for adoption. XenDesktop Essentials allows you to deliver Windows 10 desktops from the Azure cloud to a multitude of devices—Linux, Mac, …
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The recent Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) outage has taught us quite a bit about fragile cloud architectures. While many cloud providers will make hay during the next few weeks, current cloud architectures are fragile. Modern hybrid cloud architectures are fragile. We need to learn from this outage to design better systems: ones …
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We are in the midst of an analytics boom. Everywhere I look, I see analytics presented as the answer to everything from sweaty pores to security. They may even improve hair growth. That aside, analytics truly are invading everything we do. There are three types of analytics. Over reliance on any one type leaves businesses …
This year has been the year when fake news became big news. But fake news isn’t really new: it has been going on for years. We see fake IT news all over the IT industry when partial truths and irrelevant benchmarks are used to sell products. The presence of fakes means that we need to …
In February, several of the top virtualization vendor companies released their fourth quarter results and guidance. From this release, we should be able to get an understanding of how the companies are performing. VMware, Citrix, and Red Hat are the companies for whichI have some data to share. The source of the revenue reports is Cleveland Research Company, and the sources of the individual company reports are CRC and FactSet Estimates.
In the last three virtualization and cloud security podcasts, Mike Foley, Sr Technical Marketing Architect for vSphere Security, mentioned security disaster recovery plans. There is a growing need for such plans. The 174th podcast covered this need, as well as the why and the how of putting such plans together. Unlike traditional disaster recovery, security disaster …
