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• (08/30/2010) Live From VMworld 2010: Day 0 - Registration & Warm up Party as a Service (WuPaas)
  Day zero at VMworld has been fantastic, there is a lot of excitement and enthusiasm, and you can feel it everywhere, especially in the surrounding areas to the Moscone Center where VMworld 2010 is being held.
  posted by System Administrator on Elias' Virtually Speaking
• (07/01/2010) Open Letter To Jack Domme, CEO, Hitachi Data Systems
  A few weeks ago, HDS put together its first-ever blogger day, hopefully the first of many. Titled "HDS Blogger Day 0.9," I and other bloggers had access to an impressive lineup of executives and technical leaders. The company's CEO, Jack Domme, attended the dinner after the event, a great show of support for the community in general. But I do have some remaining questions.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (06/21/2010) The Unvarnished Truth About VDI? Not Hardly.
  On June 14, InfoWorld published an article titled "The unvarnished truth about VDI desktop virtualization". In it, the author, Frank Ohlhorst, makes some claims about VDI and desktop virtualization that I believe need to be addressed.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (06/13/2010) Desktop Virtualization Tips For CIOs
  Desktop virtualization is one of the hottest topics in technology today. CIOs are interested in exploring this technology due to the incredible success of server virtualization, but also because they are coming up on desktop hardware refreshes and the upgrade to Microsoft's Windows 7. This has prompted CIOs to look for new ways to save money and improve operational efficiency in the process.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: Forbes
• (05/13/2010) Day 1: Highlights Of Citrix Synergy 2010
  Day 1 of Citrix Synergy 2010 in San Francisco brought some exciting advances. The highlight was Citrix CEO Mark Templeton’s keynote address that confirmed earlier product availability news and introduced several other new offerings and roadmaps. There is definitely more energy and excitement at Synergy this year than could be felt in previous years. Here is a quick summary:
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (05/07/2010) Unidesk: The Companion To VDI
  Every now and then, a technology comes along that's intriguing enough that I sit up and take notice. Unidesk, a start-up based in Massachusetts, recently introduced the concept of "composite virtualization," a technology that addresses a missing component in VDI implementations: user personalization. Now, you may be saying, "That's not new, it's existed forever in profile management and other tools." In this blog, I will explain why the way Unidesk approaches personalization really is new.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (05/07/2010) Virtualization And Your BC/DR Plan
  When we set out to look at the use of server and desktop virtualization in business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, the last thing we expected was to have to make a case for adopting a BC/DR plan. But of the 681 business technology professionals who responded to our InformationWeek Analytics Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Survey, 17% have no BC/DR plan, and 20% are still working on one. Cost and complexity are holding most of them back. "DR is a bear to get people to spend money on and difficult to justify--except right after a data loss," says one respondent. So how best to overcome the obstacles to continuity planning? First, focus on getting the business to drive the project, enabled by IT. And then, leverage the latest technologies; virtualization, in particular, will boost ROI, cost savings, and resource efficiency levels.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (05/07/2010) Hitachi Data Systems Takes A Swing At Cisco
  Hitachi Data Systems Monday unveiled its version of a converged infrastructure. Dubbed Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), the HDS offering is a direct competitor to Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). HDS also announced an extended partnership with Microsoft to OEM Microsoft’s System Center and use it as an architectural framework to manage the UCP from a centralized, tightly integrated console. Some elements are available now, notably blades, but the converged platform as a whole is due beginning of 2011.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (12/16/2009) 9 Reasons Enterprises Shouldn’t Switch To Hyper-V
  In my job I’m privileged to help companies navigate virtualization challenges. Lately, more and more enterprise IT groups are asking about migrating to Hyper-V because of perceived significant cost savings, from a licensing perspective. I always expected that at some point I would have to address this question, but I thought that time would be two or three years from now.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking - Source: InformationWeek
• (12/16/2009) Microsoft Acquires Opalis: Watch Out VMware!
  Microsoft will not tire until it has conquered virtualization. It is going at it with everything it’s got. In a series of acquisitions and announcements over the past few weeks, Microsoft has acquired Opalis and Sentinel. It has also formed a server and Cloud Computing group. Microsoft is going after virtualization as if its existence depended on it; An income opportunity is within arms’ reach and it will not rest until it cashes in on it.
  posted by Elias Khnaser on Elias' Virtually Speaking

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