So happy together
As we discussed in our last cloud article, the single hottest buzzword in IT today is “cloud” and its secret meaning as a code word for “outsourcing”. We also discussed some of the very real limitations of “The Cloud” concept: bandwidth limitations, storage failure potentials, and the over-arching concern of companies for handing their data off to a third party. OK so to sum up Cloud = bad, right? There are some things “The Cloud” gets right and in this article we will discuss how you can make “The Cloud” a reality for your environment without the risk associated with the real cloud that is out of your control.  Read More

All Your Base are Belong to Us
Virtual Desktop, VDI, and Desktop Virtualization – whatever you call it, it is one of the top trends for 2010 and beyond. It is funny how the industry seems to travel in the same orbit over and over – thin clients were all set to be the next big thing in the mid 90’s until everyone realized they did not work worth a darn. Before that in the 70’s and 80’s we had the much maligned “green screen” world of the mainframe/thin client world. This time around, before you go and dismiss this round as the next IT phase you should know that the idea is rapidly gaining traction in CIO/CTO offices and this time around, the technology may actually be there to make it fly. Read More