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storage by compellent — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:10:42 GMT

This week the Blackboard data (file system and databases) will be migrated to the new Storage Area Network (SAN). This new SAN should improve the reliability and performance of Blackboard.

re: Farewell (for now)

Michael Keen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:35:51 GMT

Yeah, for $1785, I'll let www.michaelkeen.com go. I thought it would be better, so I took the .info extension. Thanks for the great idea Kevin

Have a Happy Holiday

Cheers

Michael

re: Farewell (for now)

Michael Keen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:25:08 GMT

Thanks Kevin...maybe I'll snag that and go from there....LOL

re: Farewell (for now)

Kevin Goodman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:14 GMT

Michael,

I noticed that www.michaelkeen.com is available...perhaps you could pick up blogging there?

Kevin

Leadership

Leadership — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:35 GMT

A quote by John Gardner: Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.

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re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

Kata Tank — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:38:33 GMT

N=1 is what we should do...

Take an example...

In the past, we managed 100 physical computers

Now, we could manage 100 virtual servers

All are trying to get us to manage a single OS reference

That's were money saving are... The way you acheive it have no importance, only the "1" have ;-)

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

dsumner — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:50:53 GMT

RES PowerFuse has been a good solution for us. If you use their shell you can provide the exact same interface on terminal server, local or virtual xp, local or hosted vista. Use Workspace Extender and you can bring a local application into the hosted environment.

Gain complete control over the user workspace, give them some control over it, and know what happens in the workspace. The application settings can follow the user from terminal server to and XP desktop, and can even support virtualized applications. What more would you want?

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

InforMed Direct — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:18:49 GMT

>user experience

XenApp and XenDeskop both take a pefectly happy user able to watch Flash, video, PPT animation and make it unacceptable IMHO. It terms of multimedia, it's a big step backwards.

Rob.

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

james — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:05:31 GMT

Yep, that's pretty much the million dollar question how do you deliver

App to User

And give them the best experience possible with least amount of effort and problems.

You choose your technology on how you want to do that given the pro's / cons of each method. We to have Desktops/Laptops local installs and separate Citrix App Server that people use for some applications. However, we are thinking if we can get away from Desktops local installs now and move towards VDI env. Where we don't have to constantly switch out there local desktops/laptops we could save a lot of time/money but is that really the best way/method. I like ThinClients/Citrix but the shared environment has its issues as well.

re: Geek Speak Road Trip #2 Registration Info

Michael Keen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:24:08 GMT

Rene

I have a conference call with James this afternoon. I'll have more info for you then.

Cheers

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

Michael Keen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:22:40 GMT

All

my apologies on that survey. There were a lot more questions in there, but they didn't show up. I'm going to delete it and have you answer in the Comments section.

Sorry for the confusion

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

Craig Miller — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:12:20 GMT

That was the worst survey ever, which asked a question that no one can really answer. I recommend you post the question in the post, and then let us comment in the comments section (I woud repost the question, but honestly I don't remember the exact wording and since I can't view again since I answered the survey I can't repost it).

re: Virtual Desktops and N=1

Rick Eilenberger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:28:04 GMT

This past year I have made the jump into the User Workspace Management realm. For many of us who have made this transition, the user is the only killer app within the network that we have had the most passion for over the years. We have jumped through hoops to individualize the experience for our users, scripts here, batch files that launch more scripts, scripts running locally, running from remote file share, group policy, adm files, and it goes on and on. What is interesting to note is that the work of delivering this user personalization mounts exponentially with each iteration of a Hardware/OS/Application Service Delivery platform. We lend Laptops/XP SP3/Citrix Streaming Applications a different approach than we do Terminal Servers/W2K8/Published Application environments, the tricky part of course being that the user is receiving service from both environments and demands personalization on a 24 x 7 basis.

So, to get to it, I feel your post is what has come to my way of thinking a representation of the Infrastructure vs. User analysis. The Infrastructure will always deliver the user experience after the fact. Your post references the Infrastructure of Virtual Desktops as a way to focus on the individual user and the computing experience. The Virtual Desktop is only one play in the infrastructure environment, service delivery comes from other Hardware\OS\Application Service Delivery platforms as well. What is to be done to confront this complexity, scripts, policy, outlay of capital expenditure which is in direct proportion to the underlying complexity of delivering the user experience via the Infrastructure approach?

The answer is to take the User approach first, which has the effect of decoupling the user experience from any reliance on underlying Infrastructure. Outlook 2007 is Outlook 2007 from every Hardware\OS\Application Service Delivery platform available within the network service offering. If the user needs to move from Laptop\XP\Locally Installed to TS\W2K3\Citrix Streamed, not a problem. Any combination is now available once User Workspace Management has been chosen as the strategic requirement for consistent and predictable delivery of the user experience.

The net effect of taking the User Workspace Management approach, focusing on the user first and avoiding the Hardware\OS\Application Service Delivery nightmare, is that technology is now in the hands of the business model. If VDI saves money, then go save it. If thin clients save money (IGEL anyone?), then go save it. Now you can do whatever you like with the network, the user experience will always be the same, consistent and reliable.

And it gets even better for the IT administrator, but I have work to do today...:-). Thanks for the post.

re: Geek Speak Road Trip #2 Registration Info

Rene Vester — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:09:15 GMT

Hey Michael,

How will this work when it comes to attending virtually? webinar? :-)

/René