60 http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=228 Douglas Brown?s "Virtualization Ramblings" Column (c) 1999-2013 DABCC Inc. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:45:00 0500 en-US http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc/images/logo_dabcc.gif http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=228 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24651 Interested in learning more about BYOT? Join the Entisys team and guest speaker Doug Brown to hear more on BYOT: Self -Service from Application to Cloud Resources!... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:45:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=23255 The Holidays are here and that means we all get a little time to relax and play a bit. I recently recorded a podcast with Jason Conger from Splunk (soon to be posted). Although I've been told a lot about Splunk I never took the time to check it out or learn about it in more detail. I must admit I'm very impressed so I wanted to share it with you and maybe over the holiday slow time you can take some minutes to download it and play around. You can actually run it on your laptop (Windows, Mac... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:48:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=19169 I'm back in my office in FL, I love this office as it is just so "me" and has all my computers, toys (LEGOs) and so much more. It is a great working environment! Over the weekend I had some "spare" time to play with one of my most favorite technologies, client virtualization. I simply love it as it gives me all the control I want while at the same time the local performance I demand! Oh, I also get auto backups no matter where I am and if I have a problem I just click a couple... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:13:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=18880 The Virtualization & Cloud Computing world's oldest independent resources site is now a teenager! Yup, today is DABCC.com's 13th Birthday!! I'm a proud Daddy!!!... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:12:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=17784 Layering is the "flavor of month" it seems. There has been a steady up-tick in articles being posted about the concept so this one is no exception. But when we talk about layering,what are we really discussing? Applications, user persona or both? Are we discussing some sort of streaming technology or virtual disks? Regardless, what we are really discussing is a new layer of abstraction for virtual machines. Therefore, we must take a step back and ask ourselves where the value resides in "layer... Mon, 09 May 2011 04:58:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=17222 Welcome to version 1.0 of the Official Guide to Citrix XenClient: Reference Design, Best Practices, and Additional Resources Guide. My goal for this guide is to provide you with the knowledge required to understand the architectural requirements and configuration best practices to successfully deploy and evaluate the new Citrix XenClient 1.0 Service Pack 1 client virtualization solution. This includes design requirements, best practices, and links to additional resources.... Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:36:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=13755 "I'm extremely happy to announce the release of the DABCC Virtualization News Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch for download from Apple's App Store!" ? Doug Brown... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:03:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12683 I'm back with another rant and this time it is not about Citrix or VMware and/or even Microsoft. In fact, those companies have nothing at all to do with this rant but I need to get this off my chest as it is long overdue. It is all about "too many clients" and the people that use them. Don't worry; I will make it short?... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:35:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12075 I received an email from Citrix Education today detailing they will be no longer sending paper certificates to new Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) and/or Citrix Certified Sales Professional (CCSP). In exchange for the paper certificate the awardee will be given a "PDF". They even detailed "benefits" to this change:... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:14:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10640 Did anyone else feel like the VMware vSphere, which by the way I hate that name, launch reminded them of the Windows 95 launch? I was almost waiting for Jay Leno and the Rolling Stones to come out and "Start me Up!". Maybe it is because I'm growing more and more cynical of hype and the roar of the web cult that consists mostly of employees and people whose entire livelihood is built around one company or another. Now that the waiting is over and the announcement was made, agai... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:48:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10299 Today Citrix released the Technical Preview of the upcoming ICA client for the iPhone called, Citrix Receiver for the iPhone, to the Apple iPhone App Store. Yup, it is live and now we can run Windows applications on our iPhone, of course you need a Citrix XenApp environment to back in but who does not have one of those? :)... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:22:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9823 One thing I admire is a person willing to express their opinion and stand behind their product. The 1st place price for this type of behavior must go to Citrix's CTO Simon Crosby who gives no quarter to those who try to position him and/or his products in any way other than how Simon sees it. That being said, this time Simon has responded to a VMware post claiming ESX Server performs better than Citrix's XenServer running Citrix XenApp workloads. ... Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9808 I'm very happy to share with you that CIOInsight.com named DABCC Radio the #4 must listen to podcast in their "Top 10 Must-Listen Podcasts for CIOs"! This is a great honor for us and we hope we can continue what we started.... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:14:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9725 With the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 R2 and the amazing Windows 7, Microsoft has added native support in both operating systems for their virtual hard drive (VHD) file format. Could this be seen as an antitrust issue? As Microsoft is locked in a battle with VMware for virtualization market share, could embedding their own virtual drive format be seen as using their overwhelming share of the desktop and server OS market to their advantage? Is this the same thing as trying to embe... Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:40:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9717 With the first public beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 comes a new version of Remote Desktop Servers (RDS), formerly known as Terminal Services. RDS ships with a slew of new features and some that have been updated. In this short article, I wanted to give you a quick peek at the new look and feel of the Remote Desktop Services Web Access portal known to users as the Remote Employee Portal (formally known as TS Web Access).... Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:39:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9666 As many of you know the folks at Microsoft will be moving away from the name "Terminal Services" and replacing it with "Remote Desktop Services' or "RDS" in future releases of their Presentation Virtualization solution. In fact, now that the first public beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 has hit the download sites I thought it might be handy to put together a refresher on what names have been changed and to what.... Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:30:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9540 The world's oldest and largest independent Citrix / virtualization resources site turned 10 years old today! Yup, today is DABCC.com's 10th Birthday! In the following article I detail the past ten years and how my simple hobby has transformed over the years from a simple Front Page 97 web site in to a dynamic news, support and resources site with over 20,000 pieces of content! ... Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:15:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9284 At Microsoft PDC 2008 presentation titled, Windows 7 Presentation Virtualization: Graphics Remoting ( RDP) Today and Tomorrow. In this presentation, Nadim Abdo, Principal Development Manger and Gaurav Daga, Senior Program Manager Lead at Microsoft discussed some of the new features and enhancements coming to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) via Remote Desktop Protocol 7 (RDP). ... Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:42:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9224 What can I say? I finally did it and I joined the Twitter craze! The goal for my existence on Twitter is to share with you the different technologies that I find cool, not just relating to Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, and other virtualization solutions, but I will discuss all the technologies that I find cool, the ideas I find awesome, and I will post notes about new product launches and updates. I might just also rant a bit about the many things I find silly or just downright piss me off. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:55:00 0500