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Cloud Federation
The term "Cloud Federation" is used increasingly in the literature, in our own blog postings and in discussions. It doesn't take much to realise that different people use it to mean different things. Originally it was a political term, a federation being described as "a type of sovereign state characterised by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central (federal) government" . ...
Will Apple help accelerate the enterprise cloud application store in 2011?
The future is going to be.... The future is all about tablets, smartphones and mobility! No wait,the future is all about SaaS based apps and HTML 5 etc will rule the world with everything delivered from the cloud. Yes, but.... Windows apps are so engrained that we will never move away from them. Of course Windows will also evolve to that cloud thing that ...
Stodgy IT, client virtualization and XenDesktop Feature Pack 2
The IT executive experience I was listening to a customer on stage at a conference a few weeks ago proudly explaining how he had managed to police the number of devices in his organization. He accomplished this by effectively implementing three key strategies.1) Create red tape, and make the end user produce business justification and feel silly about why the corporate issued solution was not ...
Mind the Gap
...No, I am not talking about the world-famous subway system in London, but rather like to pick up the topic by Dr. Philip Chase on the Physician's view of an EMR. Dr. Chase describes how a recent visit to his physician revealed that the esteemed healthcare provider spent a lot of time typing Dr. Chase's answers into an EMR application. The physician's attention was divided ...
The iPad, Citrix and BYOC
In case you haven't noticed, the diversity of mobile computing devices continues to grow with no signs of slowing down. From netbooks to smartphones, and everything in between, consumers have a dizzying range of choices, many of which have captured their imagination in ways that old school corporate computing devices could never do. And this explosion of devices took a step function leap forward this ...
iPad + Citrix = Killer .. err Cure-all App for Heathcare EMR
I could list all the reasons I think the iPad + Citrix are a great fit for healthcare, but it may be more meaningful coming directly from Physicians and IT Pros in the heathcare industry. This is a sample of what has been shared on the blogs when we asked what would Citrix Receiver for iPad be used for. Dr. Paul Altmann says: " Chris, the ...
Mobile commerce with XenApp
Are desktop style mobile interfaces useful for business? I was browsing the iTunes business apps section the other day. Two of the top ten free apps are remote desktop viewers. I asked a few of my colleagues what they thought about this and got back responses wondering why anybody would care. How often were these apps really used? Were these just cool demos and a ...
SaaS and the Cloud – Making money with applications, Phase I
I was on a webinar with Goldman Sachs last week and their most technically astute analysts were talking about the future of virtualization in relation to Public and Private Clouds as well as the ability to deliver next generation applications using Web 2.0 technology. I posed the question to them, "What about the tens of thousands of applications that have been written in Windows that ...
Will User Profile Manager improve logon speed?
One of the common questions and quests around user profile solutions is improving logon speed. Often there is an expectation that if the profile load time is addressed, my logon time issues are addressed. This is not always the case. There are other factors that influence the logon time. Group Policy objects, global logon scripts and user logon scripts are other critical areas that have ...