For those noticing that it has been somewhat quiet for the last couple of weeks on this blog, there is a reason for it! I’ve been quite busy. As mentioned earlier I’ve been in the process of writing an ebook on NetScaler Gateway, and that is for a couple of reasons. Most people use NetScaler […]

Yesterday I released the first post of my protocol benchmarking stating that I would do a follow up in part two in regards to packet loss, scenarioes. Well I lied a bit… After some feedback to my email I decided to alter it a bit. Instead of looking at PCoIP vs Blast Extreme I decided

So I have been eargly awaing the Vmware Horizon 7 release and with it also a new display protocol called Horizon Blast, which has been a huge improvement from the former protocol PCoIP, but it is still available as an option when setting up remote desktop groups in Horizon 7 as well. Now since I

As mentioned before I am currently working on a new eBook on NetScaler Gateway, based upon feedback on mail and some randon polls on Twitter. The ebook is good underway and is of now about 100+ pages. Don’t know yet how long the book is going to be, but again its a free ebook and

Today Veeam annonced a new cool feature for all of us Microsoft Azure friends! So Veeam Direct Restore is a free virtual appliance from Veeam which delivers cloud restore options for Veeam Backup and replication and also for Veeam Endpoint backup. (Now remember even thou it is free you still need to pay Microsoft for

So just a bit of advertisment for our upcoming event at Exclusive Networks here in Norway! On the 27th of May we are having a whole day event with topics about Software-defined datacenter, deep-dive cybersecurity and datacenter networking, interested? You can read more about it here –> http://bit.ly/1o135Q0 We have alot of the coolest vendors

After I initially published my blogpost on Application Layering vs Application Virtualization, https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/application-virtualization-vs-application-layering/ I got more in-depth of the different technologies out there, and sure I didn’t cover all of them I just focused on the ones I found the most interesting. Now at this time when I was working on this type of technology

Citrix has announced the move to more NFV and pushing the limits of NetScaler towards up to 100GBps on a single VPX (Yet to see) but since this was a hot topic a week back I decided to benchmark a VPX to see what it can actually deliver in terms of performance over SSL. Now

So with Cisco and HP now accepting that HCI is now acceptable and with Cisco announcing their solution based upon Springpath last week and HP coming soon (already targeting Nutanix), and let us not forget VCE with the newly announced VXRAIL as well. It seems like everyone is jumping the boat for hyperconverged infrastructure these

After dabbling around with AzureStack for some time I decided to see how easy it was to add custom resources to AzureStack marketplace so users themselves can provision virtual machines. As an example I choose XenDesktop (empty site with pre-installed SQL server) There are a few steps needed to actually do this. 1: Download Azure