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 June 9, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
When Apple launched the iPod it was largely seen as a music revolution with a slick new device, excellent online access to music and most of all one of the most brilliant marketing gimmicks ever. The iPod was not a new invention in the music scene and in fact prior to its launch there were
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Posted June 1, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
In my opinion there have been some rather interesting developments over the past few weeks with relation to the VDI space, none more than VMware’s announcements that View is to ship late and more so, without its profile management technology. I always like to start my posts with a bit of digressing so here goes…
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Posted March 12, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I’m always amazed to read about new data leaks or customer information making its way into the public domain but more so when it is in relation to USB drives. There is an abundance of software available to prevent such things so there really is no excuse when it happens. On Thursday, March 11, a Switzerland based
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Posted March 9, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
The title of this article may be a bit misleading as when I refer to security I’m actually talking about things like forensics. Computer forensics have been very prevalent in IT for many years in some cases even providing the backbone for dismissal cases and law suits but with desktop virtualization now in the mix,
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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 February 23, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
On February 22nd 2010, VMware acquired certain assets of RTO Software, namely their Virtual Profiles technology as well PinPoint and Discover products. The organization goes on to mention that the R&D efforts of RTO will now be merged into those of VMware. A PDF document on the VMware website gives answers to various questions such
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Posted January 7, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
Following on with my current theme of under-used tools I thought I would point out another little gem which provides the ability to pipe command window output to the clipboard. CLIP.EXE originally used to be a resource kit tool which found its way into the operating system in Vista and 2003 and allows you to easily
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Posted January 7, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I love the Windows 7 taskbar with it’s jumplists and other functionaility but one thing that really irks me is the messenger icon that hangs around even when i’ve got no active conversations. If you remember prior to Windows 7, if you minimized messenger the toolbar icon / button wasn’t there however with Windows 7,
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Posted January 5, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
A couple of things always seem to amaze me, the under-used power of some of the built-in Microsoft tools and even more so, the types of administrators who are not aware of them. WHOAMI.EXE is a perfect example of this, a tool that appears simple but can actually give you a huge amount of information…
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