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

Posted by Michael Keen on October 02, 2008 - Category: Best Practices

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.

Posted by Michael Keen on September 26, 2008 - Category: News Analysis

IT and today's economic conditions: Some thoughts

We all hear the news; bailouts, volatile currency markets, energy prices, etc.  It's enough to make a sane person mad.  Every morning I get the headlines on my RSS readers, my Kindle downloads the latest edition of Financial Times (it's the only paper worth reading really) and it's always the same; omninous outlooks for the next few years (at least).  I was thinking a few weeks ago how IT leaders are going to emerge from this stronger than before.  IT leaders must...

Posted by Michael Keen on September 26, 2008 - Category: News Analysis

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

Sorry for the delay in getting the next step posted up, VMWorld got in my way. Now that VMWorld is over and I had some downtime on the plane ride I figured I'd get the next post polished up and finished.

Posted by Michael Keen on September 22, 2008 -

VMWorld 2008: My analysis and review

As we all know VMware spent last week laying out their vision for the future of virtualization and computing. I think from a higher level they laid out a strategy on how to give the business what they need; a strategic partner and an enabler of business strategy with a highly flexible and agile infrastructure.

Posted by Michael Keen on September 21, 2008 - Category: News Analysis

Demo of the vCloud initiative from VMWorld 2008

well it's taken some time to get this up and ready.  I had to wait until I got back home to get some better bandwidth, so I'm sharing with you all a six minute video demo of the ability to scale out to the cloud.  This is the Beehive acquisition technology so it's good to see that it's being integrated.I'll be posting more up soon.See the video here .

Posted by Michael Keen on September 20, 2008 - Category: Current Happenings

A big question I am getting asked: What do you think of Paul Maritz?

I have had about 20 or people ask me, "what do you think of Paul Maritz?" and after a conversation I had with Kevin Goodman, CEO of RTO Software, I decided to post up my thoughts and what I think of VMware's new CEO.First, let me say that I haven't spent any time with Paul to have a one-on-one (don't get me wrong I would love to).  So this is just my observations from talking with others, reading, and listening to him speak here at VMWorld 2008.I think Paul is a guy...

Posted by Michael Keen on September 17, 2008 - Category: News Analysis

Have you heard of: ThinLaunch

most people haven't but I spent about 45 minutes with Michael Cardinal, Sales Director and got the rundown of what they are all about.  You can check it out here as well.  They are a company that saw a lengthy, manual process and decided to create something very simple to automate that process.  What is the process?  Trying to lock down a thick client (laptop or desktop) and only allow one executable to be run (VDM client, ICA client, single app, etc).  It's a...

Posted by Michael Keen on September 17, 2008 - Category: Technology Reviews

VMWorld Keynote updates

well no internet, tables or power. Bad cell reception to Twitterific feeds didn't work either..ARGHHHH

Posted by Michael Keen on September 16, 2008 - Category: Current Happenings

VMWorld Iowa/Nebraska Hospitality Suite info

I have gotten many emails on the reply that I had to Ron O's reply about the Iowa/Nebraska Hospitality Suite.  So I thought that I would make it available to those folks and any others in the states that surround Iowa (MN, WI, IL, MO, NE, SD, KS).  We went with Iowa/Nebraska originally because you can go all "I/N" get it?  Vegas, poker, all-in?  Yeah I know, but leave it to the marketing guys who came up with that.  So we aren't limiting to just...

Posted by Michael Keen on September 10, 2008 - Category: Current Happenings