In keeping with the tradition of the last three to five years, 2012 is being touted by analysts and vendors alike as "the year for VDI." This year there is a slightly new twist to the hype and marketing, and that’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). It’s a simple concept: Employees own devices that they like to use and are most productive on; IT should support the apps and services used to run the business on the employees’ devices. To see the full post visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232300473.
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I recently bought a Nest Hello to replace my perfectly good, near new, Ring Video Doorbell. The experience got me thinking about sunk cost in IT and how significantly it strangles the business and costs companies ridiculous amounts of money. When I first saw the Nest Hello, I had no…
Data Center Overlays 101
I’ve been playing around with Show Me (www.showme.com) as a tool to add some white boarding to the blog. Here’s my first crack at it covering Data Center Network overlays. Related posts: Data Center 101: Server Virtualization Data Center 101: Server Systems Data Center 101: Local Area Network Switching Network…
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