Month: March 2012

Cloud Computing bringing us more new jobs? Yes! I don't doubt it. It is a truly game changing technology! FORBES: Yes Virginia -- Cloud Computing Will Create More Jobs than the Internet! "Cloud computing will create more jobs than the early Internet did, because cloud applications and platforms will transform the entire IT landscape. The recent Sand Hill study confirms it. For example, an IT services startup launched operations with 4 employees in a few months. They accessed cloud applications for email, HR, marketing, collaboration and more. In less than a year, the company grew revenues to $5M and added 30 new employees. They expect to double revenues this year — and add another 30 employees. A chemical company launched a new specialty business as a US subsidiary. They accessed…

Pano Logic is a cool looking terminal, and they are chewing through the market! Pano Logic Exceeds Market Growth Rates in Desktop Virtualization "Product Benchmarks and Global Expansion Propels Pano Logic to Exceed 100,000 Zero Clients in Production, Freeing Customers From High-Cost PC-Based and Thin Client Computing REDWOOD CITY, CA, Mar 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Pano Logic, the leader in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), today announced it exceeded 25% growth in 2011, riding a wave of new products and a series of technology enhancements and performance proof points. Contributing to Pano Logic's success were several significant new channel partners and the company's global expansion into new markets. "We reached a number of milestones in our product roadmap that have transformed the Pano System into a high performing…

This is good news to those of (including me!) that use Amazon's S3, Cloudfront, and other Cloud services! They are committed to bringing good value to their customers, and I have been very happy with my experience with them! Amazon Cuts Cloud Pricing Again "Once again, Amazon Web Services said it is cutting the price of its cloud offerings, including its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS) and Elastic MapReduce (EMR) offerings. This latest reduction marks the 19th time Amazon has cut prices of its cloud services in the six years since launching them. Just last month, Amazon reduced pricing for its Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) offerings. "Driving costs down for our customers is part of the DNA of Amazon and therefore also…

Check this out, cool screenshots of what is possible using the new VMware vCenter Operations 5 System! vCenter Operations 5 Dashboards = Awesomeness "I just had to share some of these screenshots of my lab environment showing the power of vCOPS’s dashboards. I just upgraded from version 1.0 and have to say VMware did an outstanding job! The first picture shows how smart and intelligent this program is by analyzing the trends and showing the outlook on my future capacity. For so long this was like throwing darts at a board. Anyway, enjoy the pictures and you can be sure I will be doing a detailed write up once I have so more hands on time. Check out the screen shots on his blog! http://3cvguy.com/?p=243

Brian Madden is a Citrix and VMware virtualization expert, and one of the "go-to guys" for application and desktop virtualization. I follow him on Twitter and read his posts on his Blog, and have for a long time. It is big news to me that he is ditching the MVP program with Microsoft over licensing issues and confusion. Here are his four main issues. Read the whole article in the link below for background! 4 ways Microsoft is screwing the desktop virtualization industry, and why I'm quitting the MVP program No. 1: No SPLA for Windows VDA No. 2: Hosting providers aren't allowed to let two customers share the same servers or storage No. 3: Arcane rules about on-premise devices No. 4: Microsoft won't disclose how OnLive licensing works