While at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona and at AppSense Management Summit in Daresbury over the last two weeks, I had many opportunities to exchange thoughts with customers, community peers and colleagues. One of the topics discussed most was the announcement of Citrix Excalibur as part of project Avalon, which is a solution designed to deliverContinue Reading

Only days after I have published my blog articleon Azure and Windows Server, Microsoft officially announced their Windows Server 2012 licensing model including pricing. You can check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/2012-editions.aspx. The interesting thing about this Microsoft announcement is that it fits nicely into what I have predicted: Microsoft is getting ready for the cloudContinue Reading

After being a speaker on the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow and an attendee of Microsoft TechEd in Amsterdam, I want to share with you what my thoughts are on Microsoft’s current strategy. I get the impression that the more people are complaining and bitching about the Windows 8 user interface, the more relaxedContinue Reading

When looking through some of the documents I have collected over the last years, I found an interesting statement made by Yankee Group. Their prediction was that VDI will get mainstream in 2009. Well, this prediction is a couple of years old and we all know that it didn’t happen. I don’t want to putContinue Reading

A couple of months ago, Citrix invited me to join a GeekSpeak Live panel session about the client of the future. I was on stage with three other virtualization experts, and we were having a lively conversation about what we think where remoting clients will be going. One of the other speakers on the panelContinue Reading

I’ve been in Barcelona last week, attending Citrix Synergy. If I were a Citrix customer, I’d be both impressed and confused after this event. There is a simple reason for this: While Citrix introduced amazing new products and announced spectacular acquisitions, they missed to present a clear strategy or just a simple overview. What isContinue Reading

Wow, the year started really busy. I didn’t even have time to write new blog articles until today. After joining AppSense and going through induction and some public interviews, I started visiting key customers. This gave me valuable insights into what’s going on in the field. Even though I had only relatively short time toContinue Reading

I have a long history in the remote desktop and remote application market, so for obvious reasons I like the notion of virtual desktops.  But when creating slideware for a series of one-day TechTarget seminars on VDI I started thinking about the “reality” of VDI.  A couple of VDI facts I collected are confusing butContinue Reading

Last week I attended the Norwegian Citrix User Group Spring Event in Lillestrom (which is close to Oslo). There were roughly 100 attendees and this crowd is really inspiring. Despite the fact that they were never cheering and screeming while I was presenting my sessions, I had some really good conversations with individual memers of this group.Continue Reading

Since almost two weeks, Shawn Bass and I teach Advanced Citrix Training Classes and present at Geek Speak Events in Norway and France. We had an audience of almost 30 training class students and 60+ event attendees. We always asked about the experience with virtual desktop infrastructures in production environments. The amazing outcome was thatContinue Reading