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VDI and Virtual Desktop Security

• 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

• Report on a company called "DNSstuff"

  I had an opportunity to hear a pitch from a company called "DNSstuff" recently, which was interesting. Most of us know a bit about how the Domain Name Service (DNS) works.  Continue Reading

• Varonis: A product for Auditing ACLs and file usage

  IntroductionIn my never ending search to understand "the data problem", how could I help but to stumble on a company with a tag line of "all about the data"? I could say that the tag should probably be "all about the meta-data", but then I'd just ...  Continue Reading

• Credit Suisse CIO survey shows a major rise of desktop virtualization in five years

  Phil Winslow, Dennis Simson, and Bryan McGrath conducted a survey of 50 CIOs from Fortune 1000 companies about their desktop computer users. The researchers asked that for a given desktop technology, what percentage of the CIO's users are using it ...  Continue Reading

• Results of CIO Magazine's survey about Virtualization in 2008

  CIO Magazine just published the results of a reader survey they conducted about virtualization in the enterprise in 2008. A few highlights: 92% of respondants are using virtualization somewhere in their companies.  Continue Reading

• How secure is Citrix Presentation Server after you do a default installation?

  If you do a basic installation of Citrix Presentation Server without any special knowledge, you leave your system vulnerable to security breaches.  Continue Reading