VMware View & Citrix XenApp, the similarities & differences.
Last week I held a presentation for our Sales department. As we sold a lot of Citrix Xantippe over the last few years they wanted me to tell them more about the differences between a VMware View and the traditional terminal server based Citrix XenApp…
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation not available until Q1/2010
Where the development team of Windows 7 did it’s best to release the final version of the product before the holiday season of 2009, the enterprise boys of the MDOP team (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) weren’t that quick. MED-V, which is the desktop virtualization product…
Website update
‘ello Folks! Today we’ve updated WordPress to its latest version. There was a serious bug in a previous version and we already had some nice people testing our security. So, from this spot, I’d like to thank them all for their work of probing our…
Virtualise Microsoft Exchange: Can you really?
As Microsoft Exchange server is one of my area’s of expertise (or so they keep telling me :) ) I have had numerous discussions in the past whether you should virtualize Exchange or not. For ages Microsoft has claimed it cannot be done, performance would…
Version update
This morning I was bored a bit so I upgraded the website to the new version and updated some plugins too. If all went well, you should not have noticed anything and services should be up as usual. Cheers, Froos
Short outage
The site has been down for about an hour or so. Due to a shortage on another server in the rack, the powerbar decided to close down the whole rack for damagecontrol. The cause has been found and the machine removed, so we’re back up…
Spam abuse on the site
Hello Folks, Recently we opened up the site for comments without registration. We really love the feedback we get from you guys out there. It’s a motivator to keep up the work we’re doing. So keep commenting! :) However, there is one downside to this….
Virtualisation: it isn’t an app, it’s an infrastructure
Now most of our loyal followers know, I usually do not post any content on this blog other than things related to the hosting of website. It’s my “job” to keep this part of the infrastructure running (well, that’s not quite how it is, but…
User Photo disabled
We experienced some trouble with the “User Photo” plugin which caused a load of PHP code to be displayed in the comments. We couldn’t pinpoint the exact cause and we decided to disable it. Now I’m no PHP hero (actually, far from it) but I’ve…
Back home!
life is hard.. one minute you’re at the french Riviera (Nice/Cannes,17 degrees Celcius, sunny) and the next minute you’re struck by reality (Amsterdam, 5 degrees Celcius, drizzle). Grissa and myself went to Schiphol Airport to pick the boys up. Fortunately they had a good flight,…
Day 2 @ VMworld Cannes 2009
Hello all! I noticed a dramatic increase in the website’s traffic yesterday! That is a very good sign! It seems that you out there, like what we present here and that motivates us to keep up the flow of news and inside info’s. Let’s see…
In flight
I dropped the boys off at the airport. They are in flight at the moment and will touch down in Nice in about 20 minutes or so. Let’s hope they make it in time to get the bus to Cannes. I hope we will see…
New “user registration” page and procedure
You know we encourage feedback on posts made here and we love to hear from all of you out there. Unfortunately we had quite some fake registrations in the last few weeks so I changed the registration procedure. New users will need to be activated…
VMGuru has a new website logo
Hello Folks! Alex Brown was so kind to provide us with a kick-ass new image we could use as our new website logo. TAZZ fiddled it into the website already and I will try to fix the favourite icon later this weekend. What do you think…
Website: New Version, ready for 2009!
Because I had nothing to do (:P) I picked today to finally upgrade the site to the latest WordPress version. In fact, this should not affect anything for all of you but it does for us since administration is changed and some bugs have been…