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

Windows Performance Tools Kit v.4.1.1

An easily overlooked tool that can give you an deep insight into the different factor that make up the performance of your server of workstation: the Windows Performance Tools Kit. Microsoft recently has updated the Windows Performance Tools Kit to support...

Published Apr 30 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,262 views, 0 comments

Powershell GUI: PowerGUI

It only seems like a matter of time until everything is going to be "Powershelled". All the major vendor are adopting it more and more. Even though Powershell is very powerfull, it might not be as easy as you might think... For one, you need...

Published Apr 29 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,288 views, 1 comment

Other View On The Commoditization of the Hypervisor

I am a strong believer that virtualization is going to be one the biggest gamechangers we have seen in IT so far. Or has this already happended. One of the key factors in this (future) succes of virtualization is the commoditization of the Hypervisor...

Published Apr 28 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,113 views, 0 comments

Comparison of Storage Protocol Performance

Recently I ran into an interesting whitepaper by VMware that compared the performance of the different storage protocols: Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NFS. It seems that the whitepaper doesn't do a good job in comparing all the relevant tasts of all these...

Published Apr 27 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,564 views, 1 comment

BriForum USA 2008 Lineup

Just in case you were wondering if it's still worth attending BriForum, Brian just announced the session list. It's a list of extremely cool sounding sessions. If there's one conference you can attend, then you should attend this one. Unfortunately...

Published Apr 25 2008 by Michel Roth , 989 views, 0 comments

Desktone, Verizon Announce Desktop Virtualization As A Service

Who said VDI was fried air? Yesterday, Desktone, a VDI startup run by a bunch of ex Softricity guys and gals, announced that they are going to go to market with their VDI solution in an ASP or Software as a Service (SaaS) form. What's really interesting...

Published Apr 23 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,649 views, 1 comment

SCVMM vNext / Carmine Beta Available Next Week

A rumor has emerged that Microsoft will be releasing a public beta of the much awaited next version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), codenamed vNext or "Carmine". This is the version of SCVMM that will support/manage Hyper-V...

Published Apr 23 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,851 views, 0 comments

VisionApp Announces vRD 2008

VisionApp has announced the availability of new version of their popular Remote Desktop Manager vRD: vRD 2008. This new version is much more than an update, it's an entirely new product from the ground up. But wait, it's not just good news......

Published Apr 23 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,477 views, 0 comments

Citrix XenDeskop Release Dates And Pricing Announced

Citrix has announced that Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 will be available from May 20th (this is when Citrix iForum, App Delivery Expo, Synergy is). They've also announced the pricing for XenDesktop server. Well, kind of because it's not really clear...

Published Apr 21 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,368 views, 2 comments

Login Consultants Release Updated Softgrid Tools

My ex-colleagues over at Login Consultants have released updated versions of their popular Softgrid tooling: the SoftGrid OSD Editor 2.1 and the SoftGrid Migration Tool 1.1 . They both provide additional functionality to deal with Softrid 4.5 features...

Published Apr 21 2008 by Michel Roth , 1,292 views, 0 comments

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