With the evolution of personal Generative AI and the introduction of Small Language Models (SLMs) that can now be run locally on personal devices, there are numerous options for running Generative AI on your own hardware. Tools like Ollama, vLLM, and LMStudio, along with various models such as Codestral, Phi-3, LLaMA3, and Google Gemma, are …
I wanted to write this blog post as a follow-up to the EUC conference in Norway last week. This was the first EUC conference ever held in Norway, where I delivered the keynote on the future of the workplace and client environments. I’d like to share my thoughts on what the future might look like. …
While there has been a lot of focus on Windows Recall the last week about the security issues (which I will get back to later in this article) however there are few of the articles that actually describe how the technology actually works, therefore I wanted to use this article to write down my current …
In preparation for a presentation that I had today at Microsoft Secure in Norway, where I had a talk about how to get the most out of Copilot for Security I needed to do a lot of research. Therefore, I wanted to share some of the research here, based upon my findings on how Copilot …
How does Copilot for Security work? and is it worth it? Read More »
Last year I wrote a blog article about Microsoft Global Secure Access and what kind of services it provides. Therefore, I decided to write an example about use-cases for it in preparation for a session I have tomorrow Agenda – xenappblog you can also view the PPT here –> community/GSA-MariusSandbu.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com) …
ZTNA for Azure Private Endpoint using Entra Private Access Read More »
Yesterday I had a tweet that blew up quite quickly, because I was doing some research for a customer to uncover the cost for a new VDI solution. While in hindsight I should have been a lot more accurate on the tweet, but I’ll explain. The goal of this post is to compare a cost …
Citrix vs Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises what’s the cost difference? Read More »
With all the turmoil around VMware, should you consider moving to an alternative platform? With all the changes happening in VMware, both at the company and licensing changes many are looking towards changing to another virtualization layer. Why? While the price increase is different from customer to customer, you can look at this Reddit thread …
In preparation for my upcoming session at Experts Live Denmark, I wanted to write a blog post showing the overall state of generative AI and LLMs. There is a lot of development happening here now and therefore I wanted to give a current overview of the different models, support for multi-modality, integrations and give a …
One of the easiest ways to get started with running LLMs locally on your own machine is using Ollama. Ollama is an open-source product that provides a local llm inference API that you can interact it. It also provides a CLI tool that you can also use to interact with in real-time. You can also …
To clear some of the confusion around this new encryption feature in Microsoft Azure called Encryption at host, what does it actually do?When reading the documentation from Microsoft is states the following “When you enable encryption at host, that encryption starts on the VM host itself, the Azure server that your VM is allocated to. …
Microsoft Azure Encryption at host – What is it actually? Read More »
