What Makes A Good Vendor Certification Exam?

A look at the process of creating a vendor certification exam, and what we can learn from it to help prepare for these kinds of exams.

Blog Post by by Tim Mangan on October 05, 2008.

The Seven Steps to building that quality business case: Step 2, Criteria Part 2

I split this step into two parts because I wanted to make sure that I shared my value matrix and other methodologies for developing and filtering criteria. Here is the second part to Step 2

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on October 02, 2008.

A roundup of the desktop / application vendors at VMworld 2008 (Part 3: S-Z)

This article is the third and final part of the discussion around the desktop and application virtualization vendors that were at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas last month. (Check out Parts 1 and 2 if you haven't read them yet.)

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on October 02, 2008.

BriForum Video - VDI Product Smackdown - Presented by Brian Madden

Blog Post by by Gabe Knuth on September 30, 2008.

A roundup of the desktop / application vendors at VMworld 2008 (Part 2: N-R)

As I wrote a few weeks ago, the fact that VMworld 2008 had over 200 vendors and exhibitors is a bit overwhelming at first. After going to the show, I realized that only about 30 or so of the 200+ vendors made products that were relevant in the...

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on September 29, 2008.

Citrix stock performance: What's going on?

I have seen a few replies to Brian's post about VMware and Citrix getting together and around the fact that the WSJ reported an uptick in trading volume of CTXS. What's up? Speculation is what's up.

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on September 26, 2008.

IT and today's economic conditions: Some thoughts

Blog Post by by Michael Keen on September 26, 2008.

Extending the free Session Broker that's built-in to Windows Server 2008

Like many features of Windows Server, the TS Session Broker is a "platform" feature that provides basic functionality, but Microsoft wrote it in such a way that it's highly extensible. To that end, the Microsoft Terminal Server team has started...

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on September 26, 2008.

What if VMware bought Citrix? Would Microsoft care?

There's been a lot of talk over the past year or so about someone buying Citrix, with rumors ranging from Cisco to IBM to HP to Oracle. And then of course there's the [now] decades old rumor that Microsoft might buy Citrix. Douglas Brown and Jeff...

Blog Post by by Brian Madden on September 25, 2008.

Aqua Connect Terminal Server - RDP Terminal Services for the Mac

Blog Post by by Gabe Knuth on September 24, 2008.