**UPDATE** October 12, 2017 Microsoft has now released an update to their earlier announcement. They have clarified that, as of October 31, RPC over HTTP will no longer be supported on Office 365, but the protocol will not actually be...
Category: Cloud Computing
Citrix, Cloud Computing, Licensing, Microsoft
XenApp Essentials is now in the Azure Marketplace
Just a week ago, I wrote about the introduction of XenDesktop Essentials - which allows you to run virtual Windows 10 desktops in the Azure cloud if you meet certain criteria. Today, I noticed that the other shoe has dropped,...
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...
Citrix, Cloud Computing, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Cloud-Based VDI vs. DaaS – Is There a Difference?
With nearly all new technologies in the IT space comes confusion over terminology. Some of the confusion is simply because the technology is new, and we’re all trying to understand how it works and how – or whether – it...
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,...