There is alot of interest around Citrix these days with the upcoming releases with XenDesktop Essentials and XenApp Essentials, and also with all the investments in the latest release with 7.13 as well. The purpose of this blog is to summurize the differences between the different offers that Citrix has now moving forward and of …
Citrix moving forward with Citrix Cloud and Essentials package Read More »
One of the things I often find in Azure deployments is the lack of RBAC usage, which is quite easy now in the new portal and integrated quite easily with AzureAD. By default the one that creates the a Azure Subscription has the role of Owner which has full rights to view/manage and can create …
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they were partnering with Teradici on their N-series virtual machine instances in Azure, which I’ve blogged about previously here –> http://msandbu.org/n-series-testing-in-microsoft-azure-with-nvidia-with-k80/ Teradici are the creators behind the PCoIP protocol, which its often leveraged in VMware Horizon View and supported by multple thin client vendors, which in most cases are …
Test run of Teradici Cloud Access Software on Azure N-series Read More »
So after getting constantly bombarded with a sponsored tweet on my timelime for a while, I decided to take a hint and take a closer look at what DataDog actually was. So this post is actually just a small introduction to it. Now DataDog is a cloud based monitoring tool, so you can take it …
Getting started with DataDog monitoring against Microsoft Azure Read More »
So I’ve been fortunate enough to been able to test-drive the N-series virtual machine instances in Microsoft Azure. For those who are not aware, the N-series is a GPU enabled series of virtual machines. Which can either be setup with a M60 (Which is the NV-series) or a K80 (Which is the NC-series) You can …
Earlier last week it was announced that Azure Stack will be deliverd as a turnkey solution duing 2017 via Dell, HPE and Lenovo systems. Now this came as a disappointment to many that they now could not be able to run Azure Stack on their existing hardware, since many have started to look forward to …
Azure Stack as an turnkey solution is that the right approach from Microsoft? Read More »
Last week, Citrix announced support for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager in XenDesktop. As of now this feature is only available in Citrix Cloud. Because Citrix has the common policy that features comes in Cloud first then on the on-premises deployment. Using Azure Resource manager the setup has been simplified alot! My lab is quite simple …
Delivering XenDesktop from Microsoft Azure using Azure Resource Manager Read More »
So after much back and forth now, I’m moved from WordPress which has been my provider for my blog since I’ve started blogging in 2012 but now I’ve decided like to many others that its time to move across to Microsoft Azure. Why did I decided to move it there, instead of other providers or …
Now after been dabling with Azure Stack for some time since the preview, there has been one thing that has been bugging me, which is the networking flow. Hence I decided to create an overview of the network topology and how things are connected and how traffic flow is. Important to remember that Azure Stack …
Azure Stack networking overview and use of BGP and VXLAN Read More »
So it was initially labed Server 2016, for then I forgot an important part of it, which ill come back to later. This year, Microsoft is most likely releasing Windows Server 2016 and with it a huge number of new features like Containers, Nano, SDN and so on. But what about RDS? Well Microsoft is …
What is Microsoft doing with RDS and GPU in 2016? and what are VMware and Citrix doing? Read More »
