I recently bumped into a new idea that is "Employee Owned PC". Brian Madden made a very good article on the concept here: I like the idea. I have been working on this SBC (Server Based Computing) thing for so long and recently I have been looking into this VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).... and, other …

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"Now that Microsoft is coming out with their own enterprise virtualization software who's going to buy VMware products any more?". How many times have I heard that? Let me first be very clear before you ever start reading this post: I have a Microsoft background and I have built my own career on that. On the …

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In this article I'd like to touch briefly on the different level of virtualization technologies that I see being discussed lately. I am not going to talk about specific products but I'd rather keep this at an higher level referencing product implementations just as examples. Lately I have been working on a …

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There have been quite a lot of discussions lately on the VMware forums about topics related to exposing physical hardware layouts to virtual environments. Specifically I am referring to things like: RDM's, NPIV's and Virtualization of I/O. There might be other stuff being discussed but these three are those about which …

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It's amazing how many customers have embraced VMware and virtualization in general (that is: VMware) just for the purpose of "out-of-the-box" High Availability and Disaster Recovery features. I remember I have met customers for example that have "n Blades" with "n Windows Hosts" with …

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I have lately been involved with "Client Consolidation" solutions which is a new (well it's not that new) trend aimed at re-architecting the way companies/organizations think about their standard desktop deployments. It encompasses different philosophies and models from traditional Terminal Services and …

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