Contact me: [email protected] Marius Sandbu is a Cloud Evangelist for Sopra Steria in Norway.With some undiagnosed AHDH and new shiny object syndrome, he tends to get drawn to new cool technology. The current buzz is Generative AI and Security. * Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP and even OCI and IBM) working 14 years with Azure.* Databricks […]
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
Technology predictions for 2021 Read More »
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
Building VDI Solutions in Azure – What Options do we have? Read More »
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
Palo Alto Redlock and Public Cloud Threat Defense Read More »
After having a slow period on my blog the last couple of months I decided to blog about this particular subject after I’ve been reading a lot of posts on this subject and have been working in multiple projects on the same topic for some time, namely multi-cloud strategies. Most enterprise companies have (also based
Multi-cloud an achievable goal? Read More »
So this blogpost is a summary of what I presented on the MYCUGC Cloud XL Webinar series, if you don’t want to read the blogpost I have also attached the slidedeck here as well –> https://www.slideshare.net/mariussandbu/citrix-cloud-xl-running-ctirix-in-public-cloud this blogpost is basically a bit more in-depth and summary of the session itself. The session I highlighted how we can
Running Citrix in Public Clouds (Azure, AWS and Google) Read More »
After spending a couple of days now with the best Citrix User Group in the world! (cugtech.no) I wanted to publish this blog post which was based on one of my sessions, which was about Citrix Cloud Gotchas. I got some personal feedback after the session because they felt like I delivered my honest feedback
Gotchas with Citrix Cloud Read More »
In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe
Cloud Wars – IBM vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon IaaS Read More »
