by Chris Wolf | September 20, 2011 | 6 Comments
Remember the days of Windows NT Server? I was among the many who mocked it as a serious data center server operating system. Then came Windows 2000 Server, and perceptions began to change. With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft turned the tide of server OS dominance in the data center, placing Microsoft on [...]
Category: Server Virtualization Tags: microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
In a recent Gartner field search study, two early internal IaaS cloud adopters noted that if Amazon was the benchmark by which they are measured in terms of cost, then they had to make tough decisions regarding best-of-breed vs. good enough. In particular, the two clients cited whether deploying a third party virtual switch (i.e., [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | September 6, 2011 | 7 Comments
VMware recorded a pretty humorous video that was unveiled at this week’s VMworld North America conference. A few minutes into the music video, VMware folks are literally shown dancing on Citrix’s doorstep (outside the Citrix office in Santa Clara). While this could be taken as a simple competitive prank, multiple conversations I’ve had with VMware’s [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | May 10, 2011 | Comments Off
The speaker line-up for Catalyst 2011’s user-centric computing track has been finalized and I wanted to take a moment to share it with you. A prominent CTO has called Catalyst “the most intellectual conference in all of IT,” and if you haven’t attended Catalyst before, there are plenty of great reasons to get there this [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Virtualization Tags: citrix, quest, vmware
by Chris Wolf | April 12, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today VMware announced the launch of Cloud Foundry – a cloud service that makes it easy for developers to get started with VMware’s Open Platform-as-a-Service (Open PaaS) offerings. VMware CTO Steve Herrod offered good insight into VMware’s plans for Cloud Foundry in this post. In case you missed it, last week Steve Herrod blogged about [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: vmware
by Chris Wolf | February 10, 2011 | 12 Comments
Many customers I talk to are interested in supporting a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) delivery model. A thought frequently echoed by customers is that allowing users to access their applications on their terms improves mobility and leads to greater productivity. In addition, when personal devices become little more than a tool to access IT applications centrally stored [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: vmware
by Chris Wolf | December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been in the news for offering a tool that imports VMware VMs to the Amazon cloud. You can read the announcement on the AWS blog here. While this is a good and important step for Amazon, the announcement reminded me of a conversation I frequently have with clients [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: amazon, vmware
by Chris Wolf | November 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Today EMC’s Chad Sakac blogged about a significant update to Oracle’s support policy for VMware ESX environments – Oracle no longer explicitly excludes Oracle RAC from being virtualized. It should also be noted that Oracle’s support is limited to “issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: amazon, citrix, microsoft, oracle, vmware
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | 10 Comments
Last week I traveled through various parts of Europe, while stopping for two days in Copenhagen for VMworld Europe. With eight days of travel, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test the feasibility of working from a server-hosted virtual desktop while traveling abroad. I run both Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 SP1 and VMware [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
This post is the second in my series “PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX: A Simple Experiment.” The first PCoIP vs. ICA/HDX WAN performance test in my experiment began at Newark airport. I’m not one to spend more time than absolutely necessary in an airport, but I still gave myself plenty of extra time to conduct and record [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, vmware
