Two years ago Jeroen, a school principal in a Dutch school district, introduced the idea of switching to the Google cloud, and getting students to use Chromebooks. Today he and a colleague are able to keep 300 Chromebook devices up to date in less than a half hour per week. Jeroen, continued to lead improving…
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Virtzilla accuses Redmond of requiring silos and running a dicky calculator
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
Good read on battle between MS and VMware over virtualizing Exchange
Michael Fraser laid out the case in these pages a year ago for how Microsoft could shift its licensing to enable Desktop as a Service in the next year or two. We caught up with Fraser for a largely discouraging update on progress in the last year.
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“Microsoft should understand that if they were to offer the ability to do a Windows client OS on SPLA, it’s not going to hurt them. Hopefully, they’ll make that change. If something isn’t done within the next 12 to 18 months, people are going to move on past the desktop.”
Michael Fraser, Founder and CEO, VDI Space Inc.
The cloud computing market had a big year in 2014. And as we head into 2015, our cloud experts predict the cloud’s future direction and who will dominate the space.
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good read
What is a Kamado grill? “A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven.” -Wikipedia Photo source: http://www.kamadojoe.com/ Kamado Grille is a restaurant based in Raleigh North Carolina founded by two…
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We’ve lost consumer electronics, half of the automotive industry, millions of manufacturing jobs, and we’re about to lose our computer industry, too.
Source: www.cringely.com
The biggest problem being transformation by ibm and hp hasn’t been able to capitalize on smaller appliance lower margin computing.
Last week in a blog post on MSDN , Microsoft’s Terminal Services team linked to a blog post by MVP Freek Berson called New RDS deployment model: Personal Session Desktops!
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At QCon New York 2015, Paul Payne discussed a project at Nordstrom that required modifying and re-deploying a live application service within twenty minutes, which was made possible due to the use of Go-based microservices, Docker container…
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At the Google Next event in New York City on Friday, executives from Sungard and PwC talked about how they’re applying the company’s cloud platform to meet enterprise-scale big data needs.
Source: www.informationweek.com
Desktop as a service, DaaS, hosted desktop…no matter how you phrase it, this concept is a hot one in the parallel worlds of business and technology. Esse
Source: www.cloudplugged.com
Through 2015, more than 75 percent of mobile applications will fail basic security tests, according to Gartner, Inc.
Source: www.gartner.com
Yesterday Elliott Management, a hedge fund firm that owns 7.1% of Citrix’s stock, sent an open letter to Citrix’s board of directors claiming that Citrix is inefficient and lacks focus.
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Yesterday Elliott Management, a hedge fund firm that owns 7.1% of Citrix’s stock, sent an open letter to Citrix’s board of directors claiming that Citrix is inefficient and lacks focus.
Teradici is making its PCoIP Workstation Access Software available through the channel.
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The platform-as-a-service market is still tiny, but it’s growing as vendors consolidate and more users decide give PaaS a try. Insider (registration required)
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IBM today announced that developers across the U.S. cited IBM Bluemix as the most used platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in Enterprise Strategy Group’s (ESG) new survey of usage…
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Last week, during its yearly and awaited developer conference in San Francisco, Google unveiled Android M, which will be available to the public next
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Android M’s fingerprint sensors were developed in cooperation with Swedish Fingerprint Card (FPC). The fingerprint sensor will enable app developers to take advantage of fingerprint sensors securely, eliminating the need for PIN codes or passwords to identify and verify the user.
According to Reuters, Fingerprint shares jumped to a record high at 5.1 percent by 0724 GMT last Friday. Jörgen Lantto, President and Chief Executive Officer of FPC, mentioned during the conference that Fingerprint’s forecast of revenue exceeds $177 million in 2015. Morevoer, he is convinced that the launch of Android M will contribute to the fingerprint sensors’ market growth in 2016, possibly even earlier.
Across the payments and banking space, there’s been one type of tech that is becoming almost second nature for consumers: fingerprint TouchID. Now, Chase has
Source: www.pymnts.com
As for other notable card networks that have embraced TouchID, American Express already had updated its app to accept the tech last December, when it announced Touch ID was now supported for Amex commercial cards as well as personal account
