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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....

A look back at the last two years since Microsoft purchased Softricity, plus what is on tap this year....

Last week I wrote that one of the main challenges in the leading VDI products on the market today is that their remote display protocols—ICA and RDP—don't work with all applications. I also put forward the idea that until VDI can work for 100% of applications, it won't grow much beyond the niche solution it is today. Putting those two thoughts together, one could argue that better protocols = broader VDI adoption....

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. ...

Since VDI has become more popular, we've had to take a look at where we stand with Virtualization as a whole. Until Citrix bought XenSource it was pretty easy - we just waded in to the hardware virtualization pool from time to time when we'd talk...

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 ...

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"....

Jeff Muir over at Citrix Blogger just put up an interesting post around Citrix Annual Reports and I wanted to broaden his post to ALL IT folks in general....

One of the most common barriers to the deployment of Citrix XenApp (formerly known as Citrix Presentation Server) client-side application virtualization in enterprise branch offices is poor performance due to WAN networking issues. WAN characteristics, like latency, traffic congestion, and packet loss impact your ability to effectively stream applications to branch locations. ...

My good buddy Gus over at Citrix posted up today that the latest and greatest XenApp client package is available for beta. These clients support Windows Vista, XP, 2003 & 2000 Citrix is looking for users to test drive the latest version of the XenApp...

Recently Brian Madden posted a couple of articles on his website regarding the pricing of XenDesktop in regards to the pricing of XenApp. In the most recent article he states, "Too bad the CXOs of the world are going to read that XenDesktop is the 'cheap' way to XenApp and want to deploy it for all their users immediately." Well the CXOs of the world are going to read that XenDesktop is the 'cheap' way to XenApp BECAUSE Brian keeps writing it. But just because Brian keeps writing it doesn't mean it's true....

At BriForum 2007 Amsterdam, Michael Thomason presented an updated version of his highly-regarded session entitled "Decreasing Windows Login Time." In this session, Michael will show you how you can achieve the same 5-7 second login time that...

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?"...

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?”...

May and June are prime conference and seminar months. I'll be speaking at the following events in June:...