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

Getting your Application Delivery/Virtualization project off the ground

In these difficult economic times, we need to work a little harder and smarter to get our pet projects off the ground, or gain further executive buy-in. I wanted to share with you some of the things that I have done in the past to help accomplish my project goals....

Published Jun 30 2008 by Michael Keen , 2,910 views, 0 comments

XenDesktop on the iPhone, where does this fit in the timeline of technology advancement

Someone posted on the BriForum attendee blog the other day wanting to know more about this. Here is your answer...

Published Jun 20 2008 by Michael Keen , 3,502 views, 0 comments

Virtual Service-Oriented Grids

so with all the discussions around virtualization and cloud computing lately and even some of this discussions here at BriForum this week, I wanted to share with you a tidbit of a preview I have had the pleasure of getting to take a peek at....

Published Jun 16 2008 by Michael Keen , 3,499 views, 0 comments

You can keep up with the happenings here at BriForum

My good buddy Gus Pinto pointed me to a site so that you can keep up with the blow-by-blow happenings here at BriForum...

Published Jun 16 2008 by Michael Keen , 3,188 views, 0 comments

Change: It's happening and it has your CEO worried

In a previous post I stated that I start out each new client meeting with pretty much the same statement, "with almost perfect certainty that over the next decade your company will be challenged to change in a way that you may never have thought of and for which there is no precedent." A new survey of corporate CEO's confirms what I'm saying everyday....

Published Jun 11 2008 by Michael Keen , 4,284 views, 8 comments

Compellent wins Microsoft Storage Partner of the Year

I have posted here before about the great technology that Compellent brings to the Storage industry. It was just announced that Compellent has beat out NetApp and HP to be named the Microsoft Storage Partner of the Year....

Published Jun 11 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,586 views, 11 comments

Some thoughts around the latest buzz of Cloud Computing

It goes by many names, utility, grid, SaaS, PaaS, SOA, but whatever you call it, it's still a technology that needs to be thought of in a business sense....

Published Jun 06 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,158 views, 11 comments

VMware Wastes Strength in Virtualization ROI War with Microsoft

Kevin Fogarty over at CIO.com posted up a nice post on the "playground spat" that VMware and Microsoft are having on each other's ROI/TCO calculator, among other things like who's hyper-visor is better, blah blah blah. ...

Published Jun 03 2008 by Michael Keen , 5,628 views, 7 comments

Citrix NetScaler 8.1 RTW Release

Citrix NetScaler 8.1 has reached the Released to Web (RTW) milestone, and is now available to all customers via the Downloads section of the citrix.com support site ...

Published Jun 02 2008 by Michael Keen , 6,079 views, 7 comments

Emerging Technologies Survey findings, analysis, and opinions

There was an interesting article in the latest edition of CIO Insight magazine recently that caught my eye regarding "emerging technologies". There were some very interesting findings in this survey of IT executives around technologies ranging from "cloud computing/development in the cloud" to "browser-based data visualization". There were some questions around "storage virtualization" and "application virtualization". This is what I wanted to highlight here along with some of the insights around the "cloud computing/development in the cloud"....

Published Jun 02 2008 by Michael Keen , 4,030 views, 3 comments

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