Monthly Archives: November 2011
What’s the Forecast? Storage…
In this second to last post in this series, I'll review my thoughts on the near term future of the storage industry, technology adoption, and challenges faced by the incumbent storage array manufacturers. The next and final post will lightly touch on End User Computing and evolution of application development and delivery. If you have thoughts, comments, or would like to see more on any of what I have published in this series, I welcome all comments / questions / requests. Thanks for reading! - Brett
Storage Forecast:
As they have over the last 3-5 years, enterprise storage requirements will continue to grow at accelerated rates over the next 3-5 years. Information and intelligent access/use of that information is already a critical differentiator for companies in most ...
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VMware updates Horizon and ThinApp to allow for self-service Windows app delivery
This morning VMware announced updates to ThinApp and VMware Horizon to allow for Windows application delivery via the Horizon portal. In case you are wondering what Horizon is, it's a web based portal for application delivery. Before today it was only able to delivery access to SaaS based or Web applications. With the latest updates you can now deliver ThinApp packages to users with the Horizon agent on their PC. This provides a self-service option for application delivery.
So some of you may be asking how is this different than assigning ThinApp packages within VMware View? Below is a quote from VMware on the two processes.
Entitlement to Horizon-enabled ThinApp packages can be based on Active Directory groups or on groups that you create within Horizon. With ...
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Forecast – Server Virtualization and Compute (x86)
Second post in the series about where I see things going - this is a brief synopsis of my views on near term futures for Virtualization and Compute.
Virtualization
x86 virtualization will continue at a rapid pace. Over the next 3-5 years, compute and memory capabilities will continue to grow. Hypervisor technologies will continue to increase their ability to handle workload on both consolidated and non-consolidated basis. Rapid and massive server consolidation for cost savings alone will no longer be a core driver for virtualization. The focus of virtualization will shift as enterprise organizations begin to virtualize all Tier 1 applications as a driver to increase availability through virtualization attributes including scalability and portability. Most organizations will be challenged to identify any applications that will not be ...
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