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The used car salesman approach
Ever feel like someone is telling you everything you want to hear while their true raison d’être is for their own gain? Maybe I’m off base here, so I‘ll ask you to help me decide I believe we all agree...
View ArticleNeed more on VDI, stay tuned…
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the conversation around VDI. Wow, for a blog which was posted at 8:00 PM EDT on a Friday evening, to attract this much attention in 24 hours, I believe...
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A New Era for Virtual Desktops
We are entering into an interesting time in the industry witnessed by the release of VMware View. View Manager, View Composer, Thin App, and Offline Desktop are well positioned to accelerate the...
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Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage
Recently both NetApp and EMC published VDI whitepapers with our mutual partners VMware and Cisco. Both papers are very solid and should result in robust infrastructures; however, the solutions are far...
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VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge
As some of you may know if I’m not talking to someone (partner, customer, etc…) I’m probably listening to my iPhone. Besides my love for music (I’m a bass player) I listen to audiobooks, courses from...
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Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization
Last week I presented our portfolio of desktop virtualization solutions to a group of Cisco engineers and account managers. These solutions are built on FlexPod and include desktop virtualization...
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Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated
I’ve had some great meetings with a number of customers this week and in one of them they were very interested in understanding NetApp’s value proposition with VMware View. They were specifically...
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Simple Versus Complicated – Verified
One day after sharing with you my customer engagement where we discussed provisioning ‘Storage for Desktops – Simple VersusComplicated‘ I was informed of a post from another storage vendor that...
View ArticleCisco Live Daily Blogger Techminute on Citrix Desktop Virtualization
I sit down with Natalie Lambert, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Citrix and Doug Dooley of Cisco to discuss desktop virtualization with XenDesktop on FlexPod via Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs)....
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Cisco Live Q&A – Natalie Lambert of Citrix on Desktop Virtualization Trends,...
Last September Cisco and Citrix announced the first desktop virtualization Cisco Validated Design (CVD) to help customers implement standard, repeatable architectures for XenDesktop with NetApp...
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Cloud-Based Desktops as a Service (DaaS)
There are a number of factors fueling the need for greater adoption of desktop virtualization within every organization. The obvious is the consumerization of mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones,...
View ArticleDiscussing Desktops and Mobility with Cisco & WWT at Citrix Synergy
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Product Manager at Cisco, asked Joe Onisick, Technical Architect at World Wide Technology, and I to discuss Cisco VXI technology at Citrix Synergy 2012. We share thoughts from a...
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FlashStack CI: Why all-flash advances the converged infrastructure market
Last week Pure Storage launched FlashStack CI – our Converged Infrastructure with Cisco and VMware. Based on the volume of coverage from the press and analysts it appears we hit the mark. With a...
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