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.
Server/Desktop Virtualization–A Best of Breed Band-Aid
Virtualization is a buzzword that has moved beyond into mainstream use and enterprise deployment. A few years back vendors were ‘virtualization-washing’ their products and services the way many ‘cloud-wash’ the same today. Now a good majority of enterprises are well into their server virtualization efforts and moving into Virtual Desktop…
EMC VSPEX
EMC recently announced VSPEX (http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120412-01.htm)which is a series of reference architectures designed with: Cisco, Brocade, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware. The intent of these architectures is to provide proven designs for cloud computing while providing customer choice and flexibility. Overall the intent is to provide flexible architectures of best-of-breed components…
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What Product Management, Sales, and Job Candidates Have in Common
Pop quiz hot-shot. What do the following three people all have in common? A product manager responsible for defining a product, driving engineering, and taking that product to market. Anyone working a sales job for any product, in any place. A candidate applying for any job, or requesting a promotion/raise at any…