Update – May 7, 2015 In the original post below, we talked about the 20,000 “item” limit in OneDrive for Business. It turns out that there’s another quirk with OneDrive for Business that we didn’t touch on in our original...
Category: Best Practices
Best Practices, Business Practices, Virtualization
Hyperconvergence and the Advent of Software-Defined-Everything – Part 2
As cravings go, the craving for the perfect morning cup of tea in jolly old England rivals that of the most highly-caffeinated Pacific Northwest latte-addict. So, in the late 1800s, some inventive folks started thinking about what was actually required...
Best Practices, Business Practices, Virtualization
Hyperconvergence and the Advent of Software-Defined-Everything – Part 1
The IT industry is one of those industries that is rife with “buzz words” – convergence, hyperconvergence, software-defined this and that, etc., etc. It can be a challenge for even the most dedicated IT professionals to keep up on all...
Backups, Best Practices, Disaster Recovery
Where Did My Document Go?
It is axiomatic that many of us (perhaps most of us) don’t worry about backing up our PCs until we have a hard drive crash and lose valuable information. This is typically more of a problem with personal PCs than...
Backups, Best Practices, Business Practices, Cloud Computing
How Do You Backup Your Cloud Services?
I recently came across a post on spiceworks.com that, although it’s a couple of years old, makes a great point: “IT professionals would never run on-premise systems without adequate backup and recovery capabilities, so it’s hard to imagine why so...
Best Practices, Citrix, Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Data Gravity and Cloud Computing
Last July, Alistair Croll wrote an interesting post over at http://datagravity.org on the concept of “data gravity” – a term first coined by Dave McCrory. The concept goes like this: The speed with which information can get from where it...
Best Practices, Business Practices, Citrix, Cloud Computing
It’s Been a Cloud-y Week
No, I’m not talking about the weather her in San Francisco – that’s actually been pretty good. It’s just that everywhere you look here at the Citrix Summit / Synergy conference, the talk is all about clouds - public clouds,...
Best Practices, Citrix, Virtualization
Top 10 VDI Mistakes (According to Dan Feller)
Dan Feller is a Lead Architect with the Citrix Consulting group, and has written extensively about XenDesktop. We found his series on the top ten mistakes people make when implementing desktop virtualization to be quite enlightening. In case you missed...