60 http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=262 Michael Keen's Business Technology Review (c) 1999-2013 DABCC Inc. Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:00 0500 en-US http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc/images/logo_dabcc.gif http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=262 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=22383 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.... Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=14145 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...... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:25:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12895 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 so... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:30:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12801 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 tha... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12802 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.... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12743 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. ... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12742 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.... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12709 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.... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12454 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.... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:07:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12401 Citrix has listened to the community and has created a flexible licensing model for XenDesktop 4.0... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:20:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12393 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.... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:52:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=12315 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.... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:40:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=11172 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 ... Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=11171 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.... Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:50:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=11168 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.... Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=11047 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?... Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10883 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 Thomas... Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10746 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.... Wed, 20 May 2009 05:00:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10574 Today, April 17th is the 20th Anniversary of Citrix Systems. So what were you doing in 1989?... Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:26:00 0500