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Details about Microsoft Calista start to emerge, but much is still unknown

It's been almost a year since Microsoft bought Calista Technologies , a non-shipping set of technologies that leverages host and client-based GPUs for 3D and multimedia remoting. Since the acquisition, Microsoft has been mum about the technology....

Brian Madden on November 21, 2008 : 5 comments , 775 views

BrianMadden.com is now part of TechTarget

I'm happy to announce that we have been acquired by TechTarget . This is really cool because it means that Gabe and I can focus 100% on writing and interacting with the community, and we don't have to be weighed down by all the operational minutia...

Brian Madden on November 20, 2008 : 20 comments , 1,929 views

Viewpoint on GM and IT

We've all been hearing about how the big 3 automakers are coming with "hat in hand" to Washington to get their hands on $25 billion to help them survive. There are many opinions out there about this and I'm not going to share everything...

Michael Keen on November 20, 2008 : 0 comments , 528 views

Virtual Desktops and N=1

This will probably shock a lot of you, but this will probably be my shortest post ever. It's been the buzz for quite some time. We spent a great deal of time talking about it at the last BriForum, I hear about it from customers in almost every meeting...

Michael Keen on November 19, 2008 : 8 comments , 1,048 views

Geek Speak Road Trip #2 Registration Info

hey all, well now that we have a few things solidified (nothing like cutting it short on time huh?), I wanted to share with you all here in the Midwest the registration link for the event. I hope that if you are around you will plan to make it to the...

Michael Keen on November 18, 2008 : 2 comments , 331 views

XenApp 5 Feature Profile: Special Folder Redirection

Now that the early adopters have had their fun with XenApp 5, the path has been cleared for the wait-and-see crowd to get their hands a little dirty in the sandbox. Citrix has announced over 50 new features and enhancements, and we're going to take...

Gabe Knuth on November 17, 2008 : 9 comments , 1,670 views

Enterprise Architecture: another component to an agile and flexible enterprise

In the last post I spoke about the importance of IT governance. Although IT governance is critical to the success of having a flexible and agile enterprise, having an overarching enterprise architecture to show how all the components of the enterprise...

Michael Keen on November 17, 2008 : 1 comments , 435 views

What does Microsoft Azure have to do with us? Hint: not much today.

By now you're surely aware of the [relatively] huge announcements Microsoft made last month about their new Azure platform . Basically Microsoft is buying hundreds of thousands of Dell servers that they will run themselves. They also wrote their own...

Brian Madden on November 17, 2008 : 2 comments , 1,390 views

In the culture of innovation, leadership is key

I've often blogged about innovation here as it related to using the technology we work in to innovate. Now I want to take a different tack and look at the culture of innovation in a broad scope and share some of my thoughts and experiences. In all...

Michael Keen on November 14, 2008 : 1 comments , 793 views

IT Governance; the foundation for an agile and flexible enterprise

I did a post week or so ago on Simplification, Standardization, and Integration and the Citrix Delivery Center. Now I want to lay the foundation for how those design principles are put to work. The foundation for any agile and flexible enterprise is IT...

Michael Keen on November 14, 2008 : 0 comments , 495 views

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. Think about what this means for terminal services!

One of the announcements that come from PDC was that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be 64-bit only . At first I just thought, "It's about time!" and it really didn't sink in. But a few days ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Holy...

Brian Madden on November 13, 2008 : 18 comments , 3,746 views

Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?

InternetWeek reported a few weeks ago that new firmware for Sun Ray clients is available , and that one of the key new features is multimedia redirection. This is funny because I thought the whole point of Sun Rays was they were so thin? Check out this...

Brian Madden on November 12, 2008 : 5 comments , 1,460 views

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