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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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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Using Mirage, our customer upgraded target desktops to a new multi gigabyte “golden” base image — over the WAN, while preserving user personalization — in less than one hour. After completing the process, the customer said, “Amazing. This usually takes 2 days, and the end-user doesn’t have access to their PC during that time.” A [...]

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So, this is my first official blog written (and posted) from an airplane at 30,000 feet. As I post this blog, I’m somewhere over Portland in an airplane using the in-flight wireless service. First thought – how have we gone this long without wireless on a plane? This is really, really cool. Second thought – [...]

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