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Dell Enterprise Strategy Update and Social Think Tank Review
I had the great pleasure last week of being invited by Dell to participate in their Enterprise Strategy Update and Social Think Tank event in San Francisco. In addition to moderating the Social Think Tank panel discussion, I was able to attend the briefing that the Dell executives were giving around their latest converged infrastructure offering; Active Systems.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:36:00 PM

Microsoft Updates Hyper-V Linux Integration
Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community last year. - Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community last year.Last July, in a move many compared to seeing pigs fly, Microsoft submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services to the Linux Kernel Communit...
Friday, April 02, 2010 3:25:00 AM

Wanova: A New Face In The Virtual Desktop Space
There are many complexities to desktop virtualization like user personalization, settings, image management, offline capability, etc, but there is one company that seems to have the answer to a lot of the complexity around implementing and managing virtual desktops. I caught wind of Wanova recently and have been digging into the solution. I spoke to Michele Borovac at Wanova recently and she gave me the run down of who Wanova is and what their product, Mirage, is and how they are resolving some of the virtual desktop complexities.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:30:00 AM

Are Business IT Investment ROI Expectations Making Virtual Desktop Projects Harder To Do?
I spend a lot of my time talking to CIOs, CTOs, and business-side executives and how to better integrate IT into the strategic fabric of organizations. I was having a discussion recently with an IT executive from a major corporation around his expectation of virtual desktops and he made a statement that started me thinking; his business executives are requiring a six month, or sometimes less, return-on-investment (ROI) on significant IT projects, "can a virtual desktop project give me that?"
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:00:00 AM

DynamicOps Integrates Virtual Resource Manager with BMC Blade Logic Ops Manager
I wrote about DynamicOps back in October when I highlighted them as one of my 2009 VMWorld vendors to watch. On Monday, DynamicOps announced that they have integrated their Virtual Resource Manager with BMC's Blade Logic Ops Manager product. DynamicOps has now increased its options in helping its customers in automating the deployment of OS images and applications in a standard and consistent manner thereby increasing agility and reducing TCO in customer environments.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:00:00 AM

Citrix XenDesktop 4 Licensing: Some Q&A
Everyone has been very focused on the licensing changes around XenDesktop 4 recently, including me. I took some time to do some digging recently based on numerous customer inquiries and I wanted to share some of the most popular questions and answers.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:00:00 AM

Citrix and Microsoft: It's No Love-fest In The Field
We have all heard many times over that Citrix and Microsoft are the best of friends and the relationship between the two market leaders is all roses. Well that may be the case at the corporate level, but it's a completely different story down on the field level where "the rubber meets the road" and customers are involved.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:00:00 AM

Why Information Technology to Business Technology Is Taking Longer Than Expected?
It's mainly around Forrester Research's CEO George Colony who has a quest, as I do, to transform "information technology" to "business technology". George, and his team of analysts at Forrester, think that it's as simple as a name change that will help power this transformation. Just changing a name won't do it, there needs to be a vision and then solid execution from the CIO all the way down to the most junior server admin.
Monday, November 23, 2009 5:00:00 AM

VMworld 2009 Vendor Spotlight: Dynamic Ops
VMworld's Solution Exchange floor was packed with many vendors covering many aspects of virtualization. As I made my way around the floor talking to these vendors, I was very impressed with what one was doing. I stopped at the booth of DynamicOps and spoke to Rich Bourdeau about what DynamicOps is all about and what they bring to the industry.
Friday, October 23, 2009 2:07:00 PM

Citrix Licensing Changes for XenDesktop 4.0..Part Deux
Citrix has listened to the community and has created a flexible licensing model for XenDesktop 4.0
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:20:00 AM

IT Is Still The Roadblock To Business Agility
This week is the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, FL. In this morning's keynote the "tweets" were flying, but one in particular caught my eye: "60% of CEOs believe that IT constraining their business", and that was duplicated throughout the early morning hours today.
Monday, October 19, 2009 12:52:00 PM

VMworld 2009 New Innovator Spotlight: Tranxition
There were some amazing technology vendors at this year's VMworld conference. In this short article I want to share with you one of those vendors that I found to be doing the right thing at the right time. That company is Tranxition. Tranxition debuted their Adaptive Persona product at the show and I found it to be one of the best when it came to addressing the critical issue in doing virtual desktops; user personalities and related settings.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:40:00 AM

Citrix..."one must pass through knowledge and arrive at simplicity"
I wrote an article a few weeks ago about the fact that I questioned how far the Citrix message was penetrating customer organizations based on survey results that I was reading. I asked myself why is it only getting to the lower to mid-level of organizations and not really reaching the C-level where IT and business strategy are converging. In that article I referenced a survey that was done by CIO Insight that showed that the message really wasn't doing what I'm sure Citrix Marketing was hoping for. But here is where things take a really whacked out twist and it has to do with a book called Shibumi by Trevanian.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:00:00 AM

Citrix Executives to Present Desktop and Datacenter Virtualization Strategies at Burton Group Catalyst Conference
Yesterday kicked off what is sure to be an awesome event in San Diego. Citrix is well represented here with the likes of Mark Templeton, Simon Crosby, Sumit Dhawan, and Michael McKiernan.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:50:00 AM

visionapp's OpsQuick: Ensure Standards and Consistency With Your Server Builds
It is a well known fact in the IT industry that standards and consistency in IT infrastructure is key to maintaining a stable environment. Most companies today still struggle with this and aren't quite sure how to remedy it. visionapp recently launched their latest offering, OpsQuick and made it official by revealing the product in Chicago at BriForum this week.
Monday, July 27, 2009 5:00:00 AM

The Citrix Business Value Message: Is it Missing The Mark With IT Management?
I was going through some surveys recently in CIOInsight magazine and came across the article on their annual Vendor Value Survey. I was amazed to see the numbers for Citrix in this survey. I thought to myself that the message is somehow missing its target by corporate or we in the partner community not able to get the message high enough?
Friday, July 10, 2009 5:00:00 AM

Citrix Geek Speak Local! in Coralville, IA June 25th
The information-packed days of Citrix Synergy 2009 are over and what an event it was! More than 3000 people gathered to examine the future of virtualization, networking and application delivery technologies designed to help companies maximize constrained IT spending. As a follow up to Synergy 2009, Alliance Technologies is hosting Geek Speak Local in Iowa City to provide facilitated learning from thought leaders and tech experts, including Matt Lesak, Daniel Feller, Jason Conger, Michael Thomason, and Alliance Tehcnologies' own Enterprise Strategist, Michael Keen.
Friday, June 19, 2009 2:50:00 PM

Citrix Dazzle: Beyond The User Storefront
Let's take Dazzle a few steps beyond just providing a storefront for users to get the apps and content they need to do their day-to-day jobs. How can this new user interface help IT more? IT has always struggled with metrics and benchmarking to measure its value to the business. It's a simple concept really; measure the right things and business thrives; monitor the wrong things and you just might have an utter disaster on your hands.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:00:00 AM

Happy 20th Anniversary Citrix
Today, April 17th is the 20th Anniversary of Citrix Systems. So what were you doing in 1989?
Friday, April 17, 2009 9:26:00 AM

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	About Michael Keen Michael is the Enterprise Analyst here at DABCC.com. He is an innovative, results-oriented architect and executive. With over twelve years of experience using technology to reach business objectives and eliminate barriers to business growth, his expertise is in high demand. Before his career in IT, Michael was a professional alpine climber. He has spent over seven years on and around the highest peaks of the world. He has learned what it takes to prepare oneself for large challenges and has taken those experiences and translated them into a very successful career in IT. Today, he spends most his time speaking around the U.S. on the how to take Information Technology and transform it into Business Technology. He brings his experiences in strategy and execution from alpine climbing to the world of IT using dynamic IT concepts with virtualization and delivery infrastructures. Contact: mkeen@dabcc.com

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