In his article ‘Seven Lessons from Amazon’s Outage,’ Phil Wainewright offers some good advice for organizations looking to move to the cloud. While leveraging a service provider can save significant CAPEX dollars, you do need to think about what happens when that service is unavailable. As a user of a number of cloud services (Salesforce.com, [...]

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Frank Olhorst recently penned an article comparing Citrix and VMware’s approaches to client-hosted desktop virtualization. Frank does a nice job explaining the pros and cons of these approaches. But if your objective is to improve management of your PCs and laptops, while giving users the flexibility to work offline, you don’t really need a hypervisor [...]

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At 11:00 am today, our entire city block of San Jose, CA has lost power, and apparently it will be out for the next 3-4 hours. It’s yet further proof that having a desktop virtualization system (we all run Wanova Mirage) that works online as well as offline is critical. Wanova Mirage provides the centralization [...]

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It’s already been a busy 2011 for Wanova. New customers. Recently announced partner program. Next generation product. Today, we’re  proud to announce the next release of Wanova hybrid desktop virtualization software, Mirage 2.0. Mirage 2.0 is the result of two years of active customer feedback, crafted into a desktop virtualization solution that is geared for [...]

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One of my favorite things about my job is when I am able to spend time with our customers. As a marketing person, it is invaluable to hear directly what customers like, use, and value. And of course, also to understand what they don’t. I recently spent some time with the Senior Director of IT [...]

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Next week’s VMworld will mark an important anniversary. It will be one year since Wanova emerged from stealth mode and introduced a revolutionary new architecture for desktop management, support and data protection. Wanova Mirage is not traditional desktop management: it allows full centralization of each desktop so IT gets better control, single image management, and [...]

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So, I boot up my computer yesterday evening at home. Everything is working fine. Half an hour later, I come back, and realize my 9 month old son (the one with an uncanny ability to find keyboard shortcuts I never knew existed) has been banging away on the keyboard. There are dozens of windows open, [...]

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I had an opportunity to attend BriForum in Chicago several weeks ago (and belatedly found a few minutes to write about it.) There were some really excellent sessions by Shawn Bass, Ruben Spruijt, and many others. In almost every session I attended, the speakers or the attendees discussed how to deal with the complexity created [...]

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Brian Madden wrote a blog post today revisiting his prediction of two years ago that VDI would be ready for wholesale deployment by now, and was contingent on solving four key problem areas. Single disk image for many users Remote display protocols that are indistinguishable from local Local / offline VDI Broader compatibility for app [...]

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Last week, we had a chance to go visit Brian Madden at the TechTarget offices in San Francisco. Ady, our director of product management, and I were planning to do a tag team demo of Wanova Mirage. Fortunately, we are flexible. Brian indicated that he would prefer us marketing types stay away from the camera, [...]

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