On 20th of October this year Microsoft and Dell announced the coming of their new platform Cloud Platform Systems. ( oddly enough just two months after VMware announced EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK) This platform is aimed at customers that want a fully functional private cloud offering, or even hosting providers that want a fully tested, validated […]
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It has been quite a year, as I look back at it at the end of the year, I see that there has been a lot of new interesting technology emerging. One of the hot topic that has been in my head for quite some time is SD (Software defined) and Converged infrastructure/hardware. Now there
Software defined Storage and Converged infrastructure one-size fits all? Read More »
A cool year so far to be working in IT! alot of new tech been released and I have a lot of catching up to do. One of this is vWorkspace 8.5 which was released a couple of weeks ago. For those that aren’t aware of what it is, can read some of my previous
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So Microsoft has been busy coming with numerous updates to Intune lately. The latest updates came last week, you can see updates here –> http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoftintune/archive/2014/12/09/new-mobile-application-management-capabilities-coming-to-microsoft-intune-this-week.aspx Ability to restrict access to Exchange Online email based upon device enrollment and compliance policies Management of Office mobile apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for iOS devices, including ability to restrict
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Had a customer case where they had troubles with ICA sessions being terminated when connecting via Netscaler. They had a regular MPX pair setup in HA which then serviced XenApp servers which were located on a cluster of Hyper-V hosts. These hosts were running Windows Server NIC teaming switch independent Dynamic mode. The Citrix sessions
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For those that have been working with Azure for some time there are some challenges with delivering enough performance for a certion application or workload. For those that are not aware Microsoft has put limits on max IOPS on disks which are attached to a virtual machine in Azure. But note these are max limits
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This is a typical question I get quite often, and therefore I decided to write a blogpost to get all the facts straight and talk a bit about the cons about running workloads in Azure and why it some cases is not possible or not the best option. But note there are many use cases
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There’s alot happening lately and therefore there has been a bit quiet here on this blog. But to give a quick update on what’s happening! In february I just recently got confirmation that I am presenting two session at NIC conference (Which is the largest IT event for IT-pros in scandinavia) (nicconf.com) Here I will
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Veeam has announced a couple of months back, Veeam Endpoint backup. This is a free solution for all which works for both physical servers and for regular Windows Computers. Now Since Veeam has always been working for a plain virtualization stack, we need to be aware that there are alot of differences between taking a
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So this was announced on Synergy earlier this year, and now just arrived in the first enhancement build which is downloadable from Citrix.com NOTE: There is only a VPX available for XenServer but there is a firmware available which works on regular VPX. So what is Admin Partitions? It is a kind of Role-based access
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