2011 Review

First Published on December 12, 2011 - 1,345 Views

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time for gifting, gluttony, and awkward embraces from your over-familiar uncle Ted. Festivities and restraining orders aside, at this time of year it’s only fit and proper to have a post detailing the year in review or offering a list of predictions for the coming year. You can find my thoughts on 2012 at The Virtualization Practice here and here, while on my blog I’ll be looking back at those vendors, products and events that have contributed most to my retirement fund next generation workspace technologies in 2011.

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If you want something post-PC, go buy a Kindle!

First Published on November 29, 2011 - 1,782 Views

Seriously, the only post-PC device shipping today is a Kindle. And that’s the regular Kindle, not the iPad busting Kindle Fire.

The post-PC future is not a tablet or a smartphone, but a context aware user-centric environment where devices and application interact with data in ways that are consistent with both the users’ needs and device capabilities with the minimum of interference.

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You Need To Justify Desktop Virtualization? Look No Further Than This

First Published on November 18, 2011 - 3,217 Views

I’ve long held the opinion that most conventional desktop management implementations are fundamentally broken. The amount of manual intervention needed to keep these systems working is about the same as that needed to maintain a vintage Rolls-Royce. It is a labor of love that few can afford.

Today I have an outstanding example of what I mean. Look at this job posting from LinkedIn

 Intuitive Technology Group is currently working with a client who is in the process of expanding their current Altiris environment to support an additional 40,000-50,000 computers.

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Microsoft’s Vision of the post-PC Future

First Published on October 29, 2011 - 1,712 Views

 

A quick follow-up to last week’s post Defining the post-PC Era. Here’s a video that the Microsoft Office team released showcasing its vision for the future.

Set aside the infographics that might one day be part of office and look at the way that actions flow seamlessly between phone, tablet, desktop (both “PC” and actual desktop) …

Creating an integrated workspace that is centered around the user’s needs and informed by the capabilities of the device in use.

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Defining the post-PC Era

First Published on October 26, 2011 - 2,040 Views

In listening to some people you would be forgiven for thinking that corporations are dumping last year’s PCs in the trash in their rush to make room for a future built of smartphones, tablets, and flying cars. It’s a wonderful notion and one clearly resonates with many IT pundits who’ve anointed this dream with the grandiose name “The post-PC Era”.

The justification for this perspective is easy to see.

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Forget all you have been told – Cisco will fulfill the promise of VDI

First Published on October 20, 2011 - 23,614 Views

Last week I posed a simple question on Twitter

#VDI too costly? What would it take to make you reconsider? Double the number of sessions per server? Triple maybe?

Only to be reminded just how strongly sentiment had swung against VDI in favor of the other desktop virtualization alternatives. Going back to the first half of 2009, VDI sparked off an almost unprecedented wave of enthusiasm amongst desktop engineers worn down by the constant battle to retain control of the desktop looking for the magic bullet that could finally put to rest the nightmare of distributed desktop management.

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