For those wandering on social media and saw some fuzz about .NEXT conference from Nutanix and wondering what that was all about, let me enlighten you. Nutanix which is become a well known player in the hyperconverged has their first user confernce this week in Miami and has some spectacular announcements. Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform: …
Well the title might be a bit misleading but its true! For those who haven’t seen the news yet, you can read about it here –> http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2014-06-24-dell-software-defined-storage-portfolio Now a little background story here, Nutanix has been in the market with its hardware based appliances in about a year/two years or so now. The appliances are …
Dell and Nutanix, the biggest news since sliced bread Read More »
After working a lot with GenAI the last couple of years, I see that some organisations must keep data, LLM inference inside their own data centres for compliance, latency or cost reasons. Therefore I wanted to show how to build a PoC/MVP running locally but also look more into the enterprise ecosystem in terms of …
Running Large Language Models on Private Infrastructure Read More »
The last 6 months I have been involved in numerous discussions related to virtualization and specifically related to “how do I move from A to B? what do I loose of functionality? what do I gain?”. Reason behind these discussions are often related to license cost and that their footprint within their own datacenter is …
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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. …
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 …
Questions? Tips? Contact me: [email protected] Marius Sandbu is a Cloud Evangelist at Sopra Steria in Norway, with a focus on public cloud and security technologies. He possesses extensive experience in end-user computing solutions such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft, as well as other technology stacks such as hyper-converged datacenter services. Marius also possesses significant expertise in …
A long time ago I wrote a blog post around Microsoft RDS vs Citrix XenDesktop at the time where I looked at the overall functionality and end-user experience, which you can read about here https://msandbu.org/so-why-choose-citrix-over-microsoft-rds-2/ (and now fast forward to 2022 not much of that is that much relevant anymore.) A Couple of weeks ago I saw …
Citrix (CVAD) vs Azure Virtual Desktop – Part One Read More »
DaaS (Desktop as a Service) has seen a lot of uptake now during COVID-19, where organizations are moving from use of traditional VDI deliveries, going to a fully managed desktop as a service from the main vendors such as Citrix, Nutanix, VMware or others. As also described here in this ZDnet article –> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-cloud-pc-leak-reveals-new-details-on-upcoming-azure-powered-remote-desktop/ Microsoft is working …
Cloud PC the evolution of Windows Virtual Desktop? Read More »
I was working with one of our customers the other day and they were in the process of planning their IT-strategy for 2021 and asked me, what should we focus on in 2021 or what can you see from the crystal ball on where the technology is taking us in 2021? This question made me …
