Archive for May, 2008

XenDesktop 2.0 Documentation

May 29, 2008

Just this morning I received an email internally about XenDesktop 2.0 documentation.  Sometimes it is easy to lose track of this kind of information.  Personally I had no idea where it was stored.
Here is a sample of what it has.  Click on it to make it readable.

Recent experience says that it pays to read Citrix [...]

Good to Great Finale

May 27, 2008

Over the last several weeks, I’ve posted articles about “Good to Great”. Now is the time to collect them together and finish this off.
Here is the list of posts:

Good to Great
Level 5 Leadership
First Who, Then What
Confront the Brutal Facts
The Hedgehog Concept
A Culture of Discipline
Technology Accelerators
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop
From Good to Great to [...]

Deduplication

May 25, 2008

Deduplication. Sounds like a made up word, doesn’t it?
People are always looking for ways to improve storage usage and one of the most recent developments takes it to a new level. Since the concept is fairly new, it has several names. Deduplication, capacity optimization, single instance storage, content-addressable storage and delta encoding are the main ones. [...]

Citrix Synergy 2008 Keynote Videos

May 24, 2008

Citrix Synergy 2008 videos are now available at http://www.citrixsynergy.com/conferencehighlight_keynotevideos.htm . This includes day one and two. The speakers for day one were Nicholas Carr, Mark Templeton, and Bob Muglia. Day two speakers were Wes Wasson, Gordon Payne, David Booth (CSC), Frank Gens (IDC), Patrick Gelsinger (Intel), Sanjog Gad (SAP), and Roberto Moctezuma [...]

BitLocker Overview

May 22, 2008

BitLocker gets mentioned more and more lately.  I understood the concept but didn’t know the details.  While looking for something else, I can across a great video about BitLocker technology from Microsoft.  Also Wikipedia has a BitLocker page.
I didn’t know that BitLocker could use TPM.  I also didn’t know that Microsoft had invested so much [...]

Barry Dockswell (was at Citrix, now City Commissioner)

May 21, 2008

Barry Dockswell is one of the original Citrix employees who was hired in 1990.  During his eight years at Citrix, he made a major impact in the business development and culture of the company.  Just recently I have learned that Barry ran for office in Broward County in Florida (Ft Lauderdale area) and won.
Barry has [...]

Good to Great Video Explanation

May 20, 2008

This is where understanding “Good to Great” should get a whole lot easier.  If you have an hour to spare and are curious but don’t feel like reading the book yet, watch this video.  Charlie Rose, famous on PBS in America, interviews Jim Collins and covers the “Good to Great” topics during this hour long [...]

Knowledge Navigator

May 18, 2008

The recent post about the “Starfire” video led to the discovery of the “Knowledge Navigator” video.  This video by Apple predates the “Starfire” version from Sun by six years.  Considering that it was built twenty years ago, it is very interesting.
Some of the technology has arrived (like flat screens and video conferencing) but the artificial [...]

Starfire Video

May 16, 2008

Yet another surprise today.  I found a video produced by a team at Sun in 1994.  It is in a similar format and style to the internally famous “Virtual Workplace” video produced in 2001.  It is called the “Starfire” video and it tries to capture what will be available in 2004.
It is extremely well produced.  [...]

Trouble at DayJet

May 16, 2008

I’ve been following DayJet for many years now. My main interest is seeing how Ed Iacobucci does with his new company. Recently there was some sad news. DayJet was unable to acquire a new round of financing.
This means that plans will need to be scaled back and people are being laid off. [...]