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How Will Mobile Affect The Business Strategy of Ad-Centric Organizations


Advertising on Google Posted February 2, 2012 by  | 7 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 read more →

Microsoft Will Continue Dominance by Changing the Rules of the Game…


Changing the Rules Posted January 30, 2012 by  | 13 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 read more →

Trials and Tribulations of Apple iMessage in iOS5


Sending an iMessage to an enabled email address Posted October 14, 2011 by  | 1 comment
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 read more →

How Organizational Process Can Disrupt Innovation


Where Chaos Begins Posted September 29, 2011 by  | 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 read more →

Hello Windows 8? This Is iPad, You win!


Windows 8 Metro UI Posted September 14, 2011 by  | 2 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 read more →

The Importance of User Virtualization in The Cloud


User Virtualization - Understanding Layers Posted September 4, 2011 by  | 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 read more →

In The Search For Simplicity, We End Up With Complexity…


citrixshareprice Posted August 31, 2011 by  | 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 read more →

User Installed Applications – Fact or Fiction?


browser-ie Posted June 30, 2010 by  | 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 read more →

The RTO Acquisition – What Now For AppSense and RES Software?


pipetoclip2 Posted February 24, 2010 by  | 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 read more →

Thought Provoker – Windows 7, The Desktop Virtualization Catalyst?


Posted September 9, 2009 by  | 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 read more →