Summer break is over, and the fall 2012 conference and event season starts here and now. I’m getting ready to meet with Shawn Bass at Frankfurt airport this Sunday and fly to Billund in Denmark. From there, our community friend Rene Vester will pick us up and bring us to the Atea training facilities inContinue 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

It’s conference season again. Shawn and I were accepted to present our newest remoting protocol comparison results at Synergy in San Francisco. Our session is part of the Geek Speak Live! conference track and we will be presenting on Friday, May 11. This year we will concentrate on mobile devices and how Citrix compares toContinue Reading

Only 10 more days before I will be leaving home, heading to Redmond. It’s Microsoft MVP Summit again. Like every year I’m really looking forward to meeting with the Microsoft RDS product team and other MVPs for a couple of day. In contrast to last year there seems to be a good chance to learnContinue Reading

When I started working as a technical director for AppSense at the beginning of 2011, the deal was that I can use a good part of my working time for contributing to the RDS/VDI expert community in a vendor-independent manner. What this means is that AppSense is paying me for doing stuff that is notContinue Reading

A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to attend HP Discover 2011 in Vienna. AppSense was one of the exhibitors there and I presented our sponsor session at day 1. It was my first time at Discover and I must say that I was impressed: 7,000 attendees, 270 executive meetings and 533 trackContinue 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

It’s done. My website goes from the old wtstek.com design that seems to come from the 80′s of the last century to a modern theme. Graphics design and usability improvements are from Katie Lancaster, Mangoberry Web Design and Services. Many thanks, Katie!

It’s conferences season again, and I love it. Shawn Bass and I invested a couple of weeks into some fun stuff, like building reference environments in our labs, collecting new data and recording 400 videos for the new version of our remoting protocol comparison. Then we co-presented the results at BriForum in London (May 10Continue Reading