Posts tagged Parallels
Dead-End?
It occurred to me some time ago that life is like a multi-lane highway that starts as a 24 lane road when you’re born, and then you slowly starts to lose lanes as you get older. It probably drops to 16 lanes while you’re going to school and then steadily diminishes by life, politics, the law and so on. Eventually it leads to a sin [...]
From the darkside to the light
So here’s the problem… IT is run ragged, constantly, being reactive to the less than happy employees. IT doesn’t have time, money or energy to proactively develop plans to implement new ways to enhance the business. They are spending their time putting out fires. Is it any wonder than real firemen get a pension at 50; they must be too tired a [...]
A good foundation
VDI comes in many forms, but they all depend on a good foundation. Ignoring the actual VDI software, endpoints and feature sets, the cornerstone of VDI is the operating system or hypervisor that its running on. The two camps are versions of Linux – VMware, Citrix, Virtual Bridges, 2X and Kaviza and on the other side, Microsoft and [...]
Tales from the darkside
Although this letter is fictitious, it reflects what we hear all of the time…
“Sir:
We have 250 desktops running a mix of Macintosh, XP and Windows 7 PCs. We lease and rotate them every 3-4 years so we’re running reliable and uniform products for our employees. About 10% do video editing and design work, 5% use Macs, and th [...]