30. August 2009 by Tony.

It’s Sunday and I slept most of the morning away with a nasty summer cold. Of course, as luck would have it, I had the TV on and heard more news of the impending Panademic:

To loosely quote what I heard

“ It is anticipated that the pandemic will result in interruption of services and a shortage of supplies and fuel. Identifying contingency plans for sustaining basic functions in case of loss of  Telecommunications, utilities, and IT capability needs to be included.”

This got me thinking:

While this post is by no means all inclusive it will give you a general ideal of how to create a relatively inexpensive path to providing an emergency PC based access system while simultaneously gaining the appropriate Citrix licenses for future VDI environments.

First and Foremost, Why Citrix instead of VMware?

1.       Citrix Xendesktop is agnostic, it allows you to emulate operating system image hosted on any  hypervisor so your not locked in to using VMware, Hyper-V or XenServer in the future.

2.       Citrix XenDesktop also allow you to emulate your OS from ­a physical machine

a.       This is critical, what it means it that, assuming you have a secure connection for your home users (VPN, Netscaler, CAG, etc) you can install the Xedesktop agent on a users PC and have them connect from anywhere!

And it gets better…

For a smaller organization this design (assuming you have a pre-existing secure connection) IS FREE! 

How? Xendesktop Express is free and allows for up to ten users.

If you’re already using XenDesktop in this capacity please drop me a line or post it here, I’d love to hear about it. I’m going back to bed….

Tony

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28. August 2009 by Tony.

SysTrack VMP Overview
SysTrack® VMP provides comprehensive pre-virtualization analysis, modeling and planning support for enterprises and data centers. SysTrack® VMP empowers customers grappling with questions regarding virtualization.

Application and Workload Insights
What applications and workloads do I have in my datacenter environment? Which ones would thrive in a virtualized environment? Which ones will have problems if virtualized?

User Insights
Which user environments could be successfully virtualized?

Capacity
How much CPU, memory and I/O am I currently consuming in my datacenter and environment? How can I define the virtual machines based on the resources available, taking into account the resource requirements by workload, user need, time of day, geography and other factors?

Migration
What is the best path to go from traditional to a virtualized environment without disrupting operations? What are the costs associated?

Management
How do I manage the resulting physical and virtual servers I have in the datacenter?

Check it out here

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28. August 2009 by Tony.

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communications services.

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• Enterprise-class PBX Telephone
  System
• Internet Access
• Voice Mail and Auto Attendant
• IP handsets with multiple
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• Dedicated access to the Evolve
  IP network – our bandwidth or yours
• Unlimited local and long
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Productivity Enhancing Features

• Unified messaging (voicemail in
  email)
• Web/Microsoft Outlook call
  control (click to dial, contacts,
  etc.)
• User mobility features (Your
  office on the road)
• On-phone corporate directory
• Advanced 411 services

Optional Product Features

• Managed Security Services
  (Firewall, Email Defense, Web
  Defense)
• Managed Network Services
  (Managed LAN/WAN, MPLS, VPN)
• Hosted Microsoft Exchange and
  Sharepoint Services

Why
Choose “The Evolved Office”?

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• All-in-one communications
  solution eliminates dealing with
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24. August 2009 by Tony.

While brief this certain provides insight to MS direction toward VDI

Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 VDI

View more presentations from Ravikanth Chaganti.

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24. August 2009 by Tony.

There was a lot of excitement when Google announced it’s intent to develop the Chrome operating system (Chrome OS). Almost immediately journalists, analysts, and bloggers began speculating if Google’s future OS …

Read more: Will Chrome Run VMware For VDI?

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