Posted June 11, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
The web was flooded recently with news of new malware called Flame which appears to target specific regions of the globe. Like the Stuxnet worm discovered in 2010 many people on the Internet are speculating that the code is the work of government agencies in an ongoing cyber-war. Regardless of which side of the fence
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Posted June 10, 2012 by Simon Rust | 3 comments
Forget about securing the apps and the users – think about the data – this was where my last post left off. Let me give an example taken from my career as it is a handy lesson taken from the trenches… Three years ago I ran IT for a small software business entailing around 250
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Posted June 4, 2012 by Simon Rust | 7 comments
Just recently, I have been reading an increasing number of articles about mobile management technology (MDM, MAM and MIM). Seemingly this is a luke warm to hot set of topics of the moment as more and more vendors begin to get in on the action and heat up the namespace. It’s a really interesting topic
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Posted May 23, 2012 by Simon Rust | 5 comments
This is my first article on InsidetheRegistry.com and is quite simply a musing from a recent family vacation in Florida, USA. The prep for our family vacation caused me a reasonable and unnecessary amount of pain – not because we needed to get the bits and pieces packed for the kids, but because of something
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Posted May 23, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 4 comments
As someone with a passion for technology I always get excited when I read about something which seems straight out of science fiction but is actually closer to reality than we think. Such a situation came up a couple of months back when I read an article about virtual reality contact lenses, capable of providing
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Posted May 21, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 2 comments
A couple of weeks back I was at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco and as always did a spot of user observing at the event. What I usually like to do is to walk around the common areas looking at the type of devices people use and if possible the software they use
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Posted February 7, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 8 comments
On Sunday the many people from around the world watched as the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, something considered one of the largest televised events in America reaching around 90 million viewers. While many watch the event for the game, one thing that has become synonymous is the
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Posted February 2, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 9 comments
As many will no doubt have followed, yesterday Facebook filed their S-1 with the SEC stating their intent for an IPO and by doing so made transparent much of the organizations strategy. To many it came of no surprise when reading through the document that the business generated almost all of its revenue from advertising
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Posted January 30, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 15 comments
As an organization that has lead and dominated technology innovation Microsoft today finds itself at a precipice as the user landscape changes at a rapidly evolving pace… Microsoft have been technology leaders for more than three decades, not only defining how personal computers are used but setting standards within the industry which others have sought
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Posted October 14, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 23 comments
I finally got around to updating my various iDevices to IOS5 and was really interested to try out the iMessage functionality. If you’re not aware, iMessage is technology that is built into iOS5 that allows all of your iDevices to exchange short messages (similar to SMS messages) between themselves and other iOS5 users without using
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Posted September 29, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I thought I would break with my usual technically focused posts and instead take a look at an area of company management that every growing organization faces at some point in their life cycle, the introduction of corporate policy. When I take a look at the broader business landscape I often find myself wondering how
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Posted September 14, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 3 comments
The title of this post was inspired by Paul Thurrott’s tweet from the Windows Build conference and it pretty much sums up my own impression of what I saw Microsoft present on Tuesday. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from the keynote but what I did see was above and beyond, and without
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Posted September 4, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 5 comments
I presented a breakout session at VMworld 2011 on user virtualization and why it was important in the cloud. I thought I would put a post together to summarize what I spoke about and to go over some of the key points of the presentation again… Understanding user virtualization… Before we get into why it
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Posted August 31, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 2 comments
Its been a while since I wrote a blog post so I thought I would resume activities by looking at the latest Citrix development, namely their acquisition of RingCube and the impact that it has had on the desktop virtualization space. It always amazes me the amount of activity that can come from what is
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Posted June 30, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 31 comments
Its been a while now since the initial flurry of activity around the beginnings of the Desktop Virtualization space and today, many organizations are starting to piece together the puzzle in search of that alluring reduction in TCO. What we are beginning to experience is the realization that additional software is needed to fill the
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Posted February 24, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
Now that the dust is settling and the tweets are dying down about the VMware acquisition of RTO I thought that I would put a little of my perspective on how the deal affects the bigger organizations such as RES Software and AppSense. As someone who has firsthand experience of dealing with competition in the personalization
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Posted September 9, 2009 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
What I have to say here is not new and something that many other people are thinking but I just wanted to put out a verbal view and get people’s thoughts and feedback. I’m open for a healthy discussion on this and also to change my mind however here is my thought. My understanding is
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