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VDI and Virtual Desktop Security

• FUIT: An ongoing series about how users are getting around YOUR company's policies

  How users are saying "F--- You" to IT by circumventing the roadblocks and policies that organizations put into place.  Continue Reading

• Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt move on from Citrix, create Bromium, Inc.

  Yesterday we learned that Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt are leaving Citrix to start a new company called Bromium. I've only met them in passing, and even though Simon and Brian have some sort of thing going on, I have a ton of respect for both Simon ...  Continue Reading

• The consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it's a challenge today. (Part 1)

  Citrix made "consumerization of IT" one of the core themes of their Synergy 2011 conference last week, and Gartner predicted that consumerization of IT is going to be one of the hottest trends of the this decade.  Continue Reading

• Why "Identity" will be the next big thing in desktop virtualization

  Most of us have probably heard of phrases like "identity management" and "identity" in the context of IT. And if you're like me, you probably heard those things and thought something along the lines of "I'm glad that's not anything I have to deal ...  Continue Reading

• Intel buys client hypervisor maker Neocleus for next-to-nothing

  It appears that Intel has bought the client hypervisor vendor Neocleus. This is according to a blog post from September 3 by Neocleus' Chad Jones.  Continue Reading

• How will Intel buying McAfee affect the desktop virtualization industry?

  By now you'd heard that Intel plans to buy McAfee (press release), which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary rolling into Intel's software group. There are plenty of other more qualified folks who've been blogging about the deal in general, but ...  Continue Reading

• Why aren't VMware and RSA working together to create the ultimate secure VDI environment?

  RSA and VMware both have legions of crazed fanatical customers, and as it happens both companies are owned by EMC. This was the topic of one of the side conversations I had at BriForum last month.  Continue Reading

• How much antivirus do we need for non persistent VDI?

  Microsoft's release of a free desktop OS anti-spyware, called Microsoft Security Essentials reminds me of the conversation we had at BriForum Chicago this year.  Continue Reading

• Viewpoint on GM and IT

  We've all been hearing about how the big 3 automakers are coming with "hat in hand" to Washington to get their hands on $25 billion to help them survive. There are many opinions out there about this and I'm not going to share everything I think ...  Continue Reading

• In the culture of innovation, leadership is key

  I've often blogged about innovation here as it related to using the technology we work in to innovate. Now I want to take a different tack and look at the culture of innovation in a broad scope and share some of my thoughts and experiences.  Continue Reading

• Today's economic turmoil, IT and being a revolutionary.

  I have just returned from a well needed mental break. I spent some time back "home" in California.  Continue Reading

• Citrix and VMware test the "employee-owned PC" with their own employees

  By now most of you know that I love the concept of the "employee-owned PC." If you're not familiar with it, it's the idea that instead of the IT department issuing a standard corporate laptop to their employees, each employee can pick whatever ...  Continue Reading

• How many virtualization vendor relationships do you have?

  Laurianne McLaughlin over at CIO.com Virtualization Drilldown posted a story up on June 30 that has me thinking about multiple-vendor virtualization environments.  Continue Reading

• VMware Wastes Strength in Virtualization ROI War with Microsoft

  I agree with Kevin pretty much through this entire article and it rolls right into what I posted a while back about "who will be the "Value Innovator" this industry needs". Greg Krauska posted a reply to that post that I think really drives the ...  Continue Reading

• 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...  Continue Reading