If the recent pandemic has reinforced anything for us at Liquidware, it's to listen to your customers!... Read More...

VMware's big hype for VMworld 2013 in San Francisco was all about bringing software-defined data center capabilities to market. Since the compute aspect of the data center has pretty advanced virtualization capabilities (i.e., "software-defined") that meant the primary focus was on advancing the ne... Read More...

Gartner analyst Richard Jones led a really insightful presentation today at VMworld 2012 talking about storage in virtual environments. He focused a lot on what he called “Server Hosted Virtual Desktops,” or SHVD (a.k.a.: virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), hosted virtual desktop (HVD), etc.), whi... Read More...

After sitting in a session today at VMworld 2012, I was intrigued by how some companies over-complicate things...then, I realized that their entire business model revolves around complexity. IBM revealed parts of their methodology in consulting companies that are managing the transition to cloud com... Read More...

Virtual desktops have long held something of a mystique for CIOs as they attempt to drive down the overall costs of acquiring and maintaining what has become commodity technology -- the desktop computing environment. However, CIOs quickly discovered that the costs to implement a VDI solution that w... Read More...

The Monday general session at VMWorld 2012 covered a lot of ground but didn’t really provide any major new technology announcements. It started off with some of the traditional background statistics showing VMware’s and virtualization’s growth from 2008 to 2012 including an increase in virtualized ... Read More...

VMworld “day 0” was really just a precursor to what we’ll be seeing for the rest of the week. Today, there were no major sessions, but attendees were treated to the early opening of the exhibit floor where vendors galore have gathered to hawk their wares.... Read More...

As my supply of koozies has dwindled over the long hot Texas summer due to natural attrition (dogs making up for a neoprene dietary deficiency, unrecoverable loss while boating, etc.), my mind naturally turns toward VMWorld 2012. What better place to restock the supply and maybe even increase our U... Read More...