Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - March 2008 - Michel Roth Michel Roth

Free Dell ESX3i To Accelerate Hypervisor Commoditization

The Inquirer has an interesting article up that mentions that it appears (important choice of verb) that Dell will sell their servers with Vmware Server ESX 3i without any additional cost. I feel that this rumor might have been slightly misinterpreted...

Published Mar 15 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,533 views, 0 comments

Off Shoring Virtual Application Creation

Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether...

Published Mar 13 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,655 views, 5 comments

Using Softgrid MSIs Without Being An Admin

Recently Microsoft included a new feature into Softgrid that allows for OSD to be deployed as an MSI. This was done to optimize the integration with ESDs like SMS / SCCM. MSI do however require admin privileges. Or do they? Ment van der Plas has found...

Published Mar 10 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,594 views, 1 comment

Citrix Announces GotoAssist Express Public Beta

Jeff Muir has pointed out that Citrix has just released a public Beta of their free GotoAssist Product: GotoAssist Express. GotoAssist Express is a product of the Citrix Online division that isn't in the XenDesktop / XenApp space. I do however find...

Published Mar 10 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,470 views, 0 comments

Sepago launches sepagoCLASSROOM

Sepago, a German company that got into the global SBC market only about a year ago with their hybrid profile product called SepagoProfile, today announced that they are offering a new, free, product called sepagoCLASSROOM. One of the little known features...

Published Mar 09 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,641 views, 0 comments

How Microsoft Uses TS Gateway For Remote Access

Microsoft is used to eating it's own proverbial dogfood. Proverbial because I'm sure the Microsoft cafeterias should be OK (I wouldn't know). One particular piece of dogfood that I was pretty interested in was Microsoft's TS Gateway pilot...

Published Mar 09 2008 by Michel Roth , 4,163 views, 0 comments

The Virtualization Congress 2008

I was expecting this to happen. There's going to be a new "community driven" Virtualization event: the Virtualization Congress. It kind of reminds of BriForum, which is the community Application Delivery event. The driving force behind this...

Published Mar 09 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,019 views, 0 comments

Using BitTorrent To Solve Omnipresent Deployment Problems

Centralization and consolidation was and is high on any CIO's wishlist. All this centralization and consolidation offers tremendous advantages but also imposes new challenges to IT infrastructures. So moving everything to the datacenter and managing...

Published Mar 09 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,016 views, 0 comments

About My Decision To Join Provision Networks

This is ironic. I've been scooped myself. As you might have noticed, Brian Madden has blogged about the fact that I have decided to join Provision Networks (now a part of Quest Software). This information came out a little earlier than I planned but...

Published Mar 09 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,108 views, 0 comments

Will Citrix (Be Able To) Keep ICA?

Ever since Microsoft announced their acquisition of Calista Technologies there have been sounds that this spells the end of ICA. After all, Calista promises to deliver a much richer multimedia experience than ICA will ever be able to do (unless Citrix...

Published Mar 03 2008 by Michel Roth , 910 views, 0 comments

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