VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs. We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...
I’ve long known that a significant number of projects fail and that even more don’t succeed and I’ve read plenty of books that try to dig into why. Oft cited are poor requirements, poor customer engagement etc but I liked this snipit that seems to sum up my experience: The...
I long thought that Microsoft should have focussed more on making Windows the best possible platform for the delivery of applications, regardless of whether they were developed on the Microsoft platform or not. That’s what enterprises want, we think of the desktop largely as a way to get applications to...
I’m always loosing my Blackberry, but fortunately I always manage to find it, normally by ringing it up. But I always worry that I will leave it on silent or it will be too far away to find by ear. Anyway there’s a solution it’s called berry locator, check it...
I went swimming with Tess and Anna tonight and given that I’m not too well I only swam for 30 lengths, which left plenty of time to sit by the pool, watching the girls and reading New Scientist. Of the articles I read I was most amazed by this description...
Working on use cases for VDI # Off out for a walk with Debbie # Having breakfast with Debbie and watching the kite surfing. Unfortunately having to respond to a few emails as well. # Debbie’s gone off shopping so I’m spending a few mins reading Wikinomics on my Blackberry...
Wishing I could sleep, using new pain killers my specialist gave me today, meant to be sedative, but not for me 🙁 # A long day of difficult meetings, none of which I really want to talk about, and not much else 🙁 # posted a list of use cases...
Just got soaked on the 3 minute walk to the kids school # Waiting at the doctors for my monthly barage of blood tests # Blood tests were painless. No chance of walking today in this rain. So off for a nice warm swim and a read of New Scientist...
Been to fairrhaven lake cafe, very nice, now off for a long river side trek at the insistance of Tessa and Anna # That was a really great walk. 90 mins to get into Preston centre. Now having a rest and a drink at Cafe Nero. # Slightly refeshed we...
Walking to Blackpool – half way – relaxing in the excellent Solaris Centre cafe and reading about the plans for a new Blackpool library # Listening to a facinating podcast while walking by the author of "cradle to cradle" – business should seek to do "good" not just less harm!...