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Pano Logic Thin Client Integration With The VMware Virtual Desktop Manager
Posted by: | CommentsINTRODUCTION
This post details results via our comprehensive testing (October-November 2008), which was executed for a Healthcare client’s VDI implementation project. The IT engineers and managers selected the VMware Virtual Desktop Manager as its Desktop Broker. And at project completion, the client should have at least 2,000 Desktops running as virtual machines using 48 ESX Servers (HP Blades). Completing the architecture is Cisco Networking Gear and EMC Celerra Storage, using iSCSI as the transport protocol to provide the underlying infrastructure framework. Per our client’s request we have evaluated the Pano Logic solution and we are sharing the results here.
PANO LOGIC POSITIVE ASPECTS
Pano boasts an ultramodern, innovative design that is appealing to the eye.
Five Steps to Greatly Reduce IT Costs
Posted by: | CommentsEven the most traditionally well-funded clients we have are now revisiting their IT budgets. As you may expect, they are undergoing the very difficult process of having to enforce a series of unprecedented budget cuts, which amount to cutting much deeper than ever before. To a large degree, a company’s IT infrastructure deserves to be in the spotlight. Unless the facility is a manufacturing plant, data centers typically consume the most power and normally require an extensive amount of cooling.
The 5 steps listed below provide a roadmap that will help decision makers, functional managers, or support personnel to reduce overall IT costs. Read More→
Take a Ride With Horatio and Put Your Servers in Tents
Posted by: | CommentsI saw a really inspiring Ken Burns documentary about the first coast to coast car trip across the United States in 1903.
The fellow that decided to do it was Horatio Nelson Jackson. Horatio didn’t let the fact that there were no gas stations or roads (there were only 150 total miles of paved roads in the US) deter him from embracing what he knew was the future of transportation. He wanted to experience it even though it was years before it was a well tried and validated method of land travel. He depended on his ingenunity, his wife’s money, stage coach trails and confidence that it could be done. He overcame significant obstacles, reached his goal and proved conventional wisdom wrong.
As people in the technology field, we get opportunities daily to try new things. Back in 2002, some of us at New Age Technologies started using a product called VMWare. We all felt that the idea was category changing if it could prove itself. Fortunately, I work for some Horatio-type people that allows us to drive where there are no roads sometimes. We stayed with virtualization through the years and remember the good old days when you actually needed to know some Linux commands to get ESX up and running completely.
With the global downturn in the economy, companies are going to be more resistant to change, and will want to cut costs everywhere. Hopefully even without gas, roads, or even the wife’s money, we do have a lot of shared ideas that are freely available to inspire us and we can keep progressing through the challenges.
Often these types of constraints uncover opportunities. IT is going to be called upon to cut costs, so I think the work that Intel, Microsoft, HP and other companies are doing regarding air economizers in datacenter cooling are raising legitimate questions on how cold today’s datacenters really need to be. So, don’t be afraid to raise the thermostat a few degrees and save some power and cooling. You might even want to do like Microsoft and put your datacenter in a tent and go camping.
It’s nice to go out for a drive with Horatio every so often.
We’ve Trained 15,000 Students on Virtualization
Posted by: | CommentsI got a tweet earlier from our Marketing manager Ashley White, a fellow New Age Technologies employee. They did a count from when we started doing VMWare training. We’ve taught over 15,000 students over the years. That’s a lot of VCP’s running around.
Supplemental VI 3.5 Reading
Posted by: | CommentsI am a VMware Certified Instructor, who teaches several classes, including the Install and Configure class, Deploy Secure Analyze class, and the FastTrack class. I teach 50% of the time and perform Professional Services the other 50%. In my opinion, I think the Install and Configure class should include some additional material that I typically find necessary, whenever implementing VI 3.5 for a new customer. So, to accommodate my students, I like to provide a stanadard set of supplemental documents. Some of these are created by New Age Technologies and some by VMware. Take a look and let us know what you think. I plan to update these documents continuously.
http://virtualizationinformation.com/docs/Supplemental_Documents.htm
- john a. davis
Citrix Partners React to Upcoming VMworld Announcements
Posted by: ssnowden | Comments CommentsIt what may be the worst-kept secrets in our business, the leaked announcements coming next week from Citrix at VMworld Europe are getting a great deal of attention. I recently discussed some of my thoughts in an article with Colin Steele at Techtarget .
The article was a follow up to this article where I didn’t agree with many of the Citrix partners that are frustrated by how Citrix has handled XenServer. I’ve always read the situation quite differently and I think that its starting to become more public how Citrix knows what they are doing with XenServer, Hyper-V and the Microsoft relationship.
Citrix still has more interesting announcements that haven’t been widely spread yet, so there’s more to come next week. I will say that nobody has been more successful than Citrix when dealing with Microsoft to mutually benefit both companies.