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Dell and Nutanix, the biggest news since sliced bread

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 …

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Considerations when moving to another hypervisor or platform

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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About me

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 …

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Citrix (CVAD) vs Azure Virtual Desktop – Part One

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 …

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Cloud PC the evolution of Windows Virtual Desktop?

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 …

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Building VDI Solutions in Azure – What Options do we have?

With the fuzz these these about Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure coming out soon, I’m get a lot of questions around VDI and desktop delivery functionality and how to deliver this from Microsoft Azure, what kind of possibilities do we have? what vendor has the best support? what kind of integrations are possible? and so …

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Palo Alto Redlock and Public Cloud Threat Defense

With more and more organizations moving towards multi-cloud approach, it often requires some changes in our toolbox to ensure security, governance and compliance across different cloud providers. Within this market there is also a growing set of vendors which want to provide this cross-cloud security ecosystem, such as some I’ve written about previously such as …

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