The start of 2016, brings the start of layoffs. In my first post of the year, one of the stories from 2015 that has secured my interest to keep an eye on in 2016 is the Dell $67 billion dollar merger or acquisition of EMC and there has been some chatter that EMC, VMware and Dell have been struggling to get the merger across the goal line. I have heard of a couple different reasons for the cause of this struggle. One of the reasons I have heard was the extra funding that would be needed to cover the $10 billion or more in capital gains taxes that Dell would need to cover. These taxes were originally going to be covered by a tracking stock. This tracking stock was structured under a very fundamental provision of the U.S. tax code and was designed to represent the holdings of Dell as the parent company.
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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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Secure Agile Cloud Development
A secure agile cloud development procedure to produce cloud-native and other applications starts first with a process. (See video at end of this article for a secure process.) This process defines how code created by a developer eventually makes it through to production and customer use. I have found that many companies do not even have …
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.
Citrix Releases XenApp – XenDesktop 7.7
Last week, Citrix quietly released XenApp – XenDesktop v7.7. Typically, Citrix ensures there are some major announcements around new releases. However, since its annual Citrix Summit conference starts next week, the hoopla arrives in January for this late-December release.