May 2008 - Michael Keen Michael Keen

I start every initial meeting out with a statement around change. I pretty much tell everyone that with almost perfect certainty that over the next decade their company will be challenged to change in a way that they may never have thought of and for which there is no precedent. Which begs these questions; “how quickly can your company identify and respond to change? If you do identify it, can you leverage it to your advantage?”...

There have been numerous stories bouncing around in the last couple of days concerning pricing of virtualization products along with technological differentiation discussions; who has what? Who is doing what? etc with regards to both Citrix and VMware among others. I’m sure that you all will agree with me that this industry if full of competitors, each one out there working to beat their respective competition. We hear every day about how VMware says this isn’t true about XenDesktop/XenServer and Citrix saying that they can do this and they can do that vs. VMware/VDI, etc....

I was reading a new book this week (since I wasn't in Houston..sniff sniff) and I was reminded of a post I did back in early May on the top 15 books for IT pros. I'm reposting it here on my blog at brianmadden.com. Let me know what good IT books that you have read so far this year....

I had a meeting with a group of executives during lunch the other day. It was one of those that the "geek" gets to show up and they ask a bunch of dumbass questions (at least that is what it has been), like I can't get my all-in-one printer...

If you are wanting to build out your XenServer, VMware ESX Server, Citrix Provisioning Server, VDI solution, what would be the biggest piece of infrastructure to make sure is in place? Storage. I want to share with you the strategic partner that I use...