Original Blogs on BrianMadden.com - May 2008 - Michael Keen Michael Keen

The "Unofficial" Edgesight 4.5 Proof-of-Concept Guide

My very good friend Matt Lesak over at Citrix has made his personal notes available to everyone. I want to give a big round of thanks to Matt for sharing his experiences with this technology. Thanks Matt. ...

Published May 27 2008 by Michael Keen , 7,373 views, 11 comments

VIrtualization Vendor Matrix

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...

Published May 21 2008 by Michael Keen , 6,960 views, 9 comments

Compellent's Fast Track: What is it?

Storage virtualization and ILM is an increasing important factor for companies. As far ILM goes I want to share with you what great things Compellent is doing around "on disc data progression"...

Published May 20 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,703 views, 0 comments

15 Must-Read Spring Books for IT Pros

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....

Published May 23 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,481 views, 6 comments

Citrix Acquires sepagoPROFILE

At Citrix Synergy this week, Sepago will announce that they are selling their Profile Management Suite to Citrix. The agreement includes the complete takeover of the product, which will form the future core technology for profile management within the...

Published May 20 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,240 views, 0 comments

Desktop Virtualization adoption

With the big annoucement yesterday around XenDesktop and VMware's quick turnaround of a Competitive Marketng newsflash, I started to think about how many enterprises are really pushing towards this type of virtualization. We all know that server virtualization...

Published May 21 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,179 views, 9 comments

Get from IT/Business "alignment" to IT/Business "integration"

Let me ask this question: "How much of an understanding do you and your management have on how your company makes money thereby having a staff that knows where the money comes from and where it goes?"...

Published May 31 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,007 views, 1 comment

Have you seen Compellent's Storage Center?

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...

Published May 20 2008 by Michael Keen , 4,952 views, 0 comments

Who will provide the "Value Innovation" this industry needs?

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....

Published May 27 2008 by Michael Keen , 4,777 views, 3 comments

XenApp migration survey

I received an interesting survey today in my Inbox and I wanted to share some of the questions with you and see where you all are right now in your environments...

Published May 22 2008 by Michael Keen , 4,718 views, 3 comments

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