To start, I think that predicting technological developments or trends on a yearly basis is not the way to go. It doesn’t really work like that. “predicting” probably isn’t the best word either. A product, trend, proposition, or technology slowly evolves into something bigger, when successful that is (hence the “develop” or “trend” entitlement). Saying that 2020 will be the year of xxx isn’t fair, at least not without proper context. I’ll try and explain what I mean by this.
Continue ReadingWhat is the Citrix Managed Desktop? Here are 29 bullets to help you on your way
Yesterday, during the Citrix Synergy 2019 Keynote it saw the light of day, although it’s not generally available, yet. Based on the information (publicly) shared, here’s a rundown of what we know so far. Plus a few personal notes.
Continue ReadingVDI Drones – 2019 update
Average time to read: 4 minutesRemember when I told you about VDI Drones, back in September 2018? No? Click the link below if you would like to learn more. Anyway, since then we got a ton of feedback. In this post, we’d like to share what has happened in the meantime. Again, we would like to thank you all for your time and efforts throughout the last couple of months, to say you’ve been helpful would be a major understatement.
Introducing: VDI Drones – Mass bench-marking and load testing, easy as pie
Average time to read: 14 minutesAbout two weeks ago I had the pleasure to sit down with Dennis Smith – founder and owner of Gourami software. Dennis and I have known each other for a couple of years now and I’ve come to know Dennis as real IT nerd with a big passion for developing software – free (community) software, as well as various ‘paid for’ solutions. Today I would like to introduce you to VDI Drones, a new product released by Gourami aimed at benchmarking/load testing your virtual and underlying physical infrastructure.
Windows applications still rule the universe, on-premises SBC/VDI deployments are still king, cloud on the rise
Average time to read: 7 minutesLast month (May 2018) Login VSI and Frame presented the results of their State of the VDI and SBC union world-wide survey – the 2018 edition. Mark Plettenberg (Product Manager at Login VSI) and Ruben Spruijt (CTO at Frame) have put together a 66-page document holding all kinds of interesting VDI and SBC related statistics. The survey was completed by 755 people worldwide – go here to download your own copy. I went through the report and picked out a couple of subjects which are currently of most interest, or to me anyway.
Terug naar waar het allemaal begon – Salomon IT Solutions!
Average time to read: 5 minutesMet veel plezier kan ik mededelen dat ik per 1 mei 2018 in dienst treed bij Salomon-IT-Solutions als Senior Business Consultant. In deze blog vertel ik je graag wat ik daar ga doen, waarom ik voor Salomon heb gekozen, waar we als organisatie voor staan en wat dit betekent voor mijn betrokkenheid rondom Liquidware.
A few ‘State of the VDI and SBC union’ results in more detail
Average time to read: 8 minutesLast month Login VSI presented the results of their State of the VDI and SBC union world-wide survey. Together with the help of Ruben Spruijt (CTO Atlantis computing) and ControlUp they published a thorough 59-page document holding all kinds of interesting VDI and SBC related statistics. The survey was completed by 580 people in total. I went through the report and picked out a couple of subjects which are currently of most interest for me personally, for multiple reasons.
The results are in — The state of public cloud services, survey. Downloadable .PDF report included
Average time to read: < 1 minuteA couple of weeks ago I launched the first ever ‘The state of public cloud services – the 2016 community edition’ online survey. It included a short textual introduction followed by 35 questions in total and a few fun ‘quotes’ in between. While it turned out to be a bit more work then I anticipated beforehand, I am very satisfied with the final outcome. Below you will find the final report in a .PDF format, free for everyone to download.
13 reasons that MIGHT prevent companies from successfully leveraging public cloud services
Average time to read: 7 minutesCloud computing seems to be the holy grail, at least that is the impression I get when I scroll down my Linked-in and Twitter timelines. Don’t get me wrong, like everybody else I’m also excited about everything that is going on around ‘the cloud’ and the potential it brings to the table, never mind the type of public cloud service used. I mean, no upfront investments, flexibility, burst capacity (up and downscaling) at our fingertips, ease of management and maintenance and so on, what’s not to like? But, ‘the cloud’ is also just getting started, it isn’t ‘mature’ and/or seen as proven technology by many – there are still a bunch of reasons why companies might wait to leverage (public) cloud computing in general, go hybrid or perhaps won’t join the cloud movement at all, at least not for the first couple of years. I just wanted to put this out there and see what you guys think.
Want to know what’s trending with VDI & SBC? Current and future insights!
Average time to read: 4 minutesYou might have heard about something called Project VRC, or Project Virtual Reality Check, in full. The results of this independent and truly unique survey will provide us with many new insights into the usage of desktop virtualization and related technologies around the world. Last year over 1300 people participated, you can download the full 2013 / 2014 report here, and this year we (Ruben Spruijt en Jeroen van de Kamp) would like to repeat this survey to see how our industry has changed and to take a look at the future of VDI and SBC in 2015. To give you an idea on how they are doing, I’ve summarized the results up till now (also published on Twitter). Some interesting results so far, still over two weeks to go though.