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A Philosophy of Cloud – understand the underlying trends, leverage the technologies

Understand the underlying trends, but leverage the technologiesCloud computing is about making enterprise quality technology available to every company. It's about reducing costs. It's about increasing agility. It's about consumer ease of use. It's about making computing into a utility. It's about outsourcing. It's about dynamic capacity.Well yes, but ...Cloud computing is best understood, not by talking about SaaS, PasS or IaaS or any other ...

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User Experience Will Make or Break Desktop Virtualization

In previous blogs, I've talked about four requirements for a successful desktop virtualization solution:Applications Storms Standards User TopologyThe user discussion doesn't just end with an understanding of the topology. Desktop virtualization architecture will only get a users so far: access to a virtualized desktop. If the virtualized desktop does not provide the required experience in different scenarios, users will find ways of reverting back to their traditional model ...

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User Topology and Your Desktop Virtualization Architecture

One office with one type of desktop... Easy.  Hundreds of offices with any type and age of desktops... Difficult but not impossible.   Most organizations find themselves in the difficult camp. A user's desktop can be completely different (in terms of hardware, resources, applications and configuration) than the person sitting next to them doing a similar job. As the environment includes users from different departments, in different ...

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Do Not Turn Chaos Into Virtual Chaos

Total power often leads to corruption. No, I'm not talking about business or politics. I'm talking about desktops.  Have you been in a meeting where people talk about giving users admin rights to workstations. I have two words for you... Be afraid... Be very afraid...  OK that was 5 words, but the point is clear. Be afraid.Many of the challenges with the traditional, distributed desktop ...

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