Lately, I’ve been on phone calls with several companies to discuss whether they should run their applications on virtual machines or physical machines. Typically, some user or software person has been told the plan is to run their application on a virtual machine. They believe their application is “so special” and will not work properly if it runs on a virtual machine. In general, the concerns are:
- Vendor Support
- Performance
To be frank, when possible, I don’t tell users if the machine is virtual or physical. I’m not hiding this, but I don’t volunteer non-relevant information. Part of planning an application has to do continue reading » »
Posted in: hyper-v, virtualization, vmware.
Tagged: Cloud Computing · hyper-v · virtualization · vmware
“Cloud Computing” is being called the “next big thing”. In 2008, Gartner Group identified “Cloud Computing” as one of the top ten disruptive technologies. I’m sure there is going to be a lot of FUD spread about what the “cloud” can and can’t be used for; however, I’m confident that over the next 5 to 10 years the reality of “Cloud computing” will set in.
It appears that a “perfect storm” of events are “brewing” at the same time: Social Media, Web 2.0 and smart phones. I believe these forces will drive the delivery of application services to the cloud. What is clear, to me, is that “cloud computing” will use hardware virtualization as its foundation. Hardware virtualization turns a physical machine into a virtual machine, which resides on a physical machine. However, the virtual machine can be moved around. If the system requires more resources than what is currently assigned to it, then more resources can be added to ensure the system meets your customer’s service level agreement. One question in my mind is: are the underlying software licensing mechanisms keeping pace with these changes? continue reading » »
Posted in: Cloud Computing, licensing, virtualization.
Tagged: Cloud Computing · software licensing · virtualization
There are some limitations in WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 that are hurting the adoption of SharePoint 2007 at my company. I’m sure that this is pretty common. Many users are familiar with WordPress and Foswiki/TWiki. My users are looking for easy to use editors, plug-ins, and themes that they can use on their team sites and “my sites”. With the “Revolution” in Social media and Web 2.0 users are familiar with open source web tools that allow rich-text editing and replaceable editors. They complain bitterly about editing their content, blog or a wiki inside SharePoint. continue reading » »
Posted in: SharePoint, WSS, wordpress.
Tagged: blog · fckeditor · foswiki · SharePoint · tinymce · twiki · wiki · wordpress · WSS
We use Citrix XenApp 4 (Presentation Manager) for Solaris as the worldwide portal into our CAD Design server environment. Citrix XenApp is the latest name for Citrix Presentation Manager which was formerly named, Citrix Metaframe. The use of Citrix’s Solaris based products is common in the Chip Design and Manufacturing industry. For many years, Citrix’s customers have been asking for a Presentation Manager Server product that runs on Linux. Now that Oracle has purchased Sun, will Citrix finally release a XenApp server for Linux? continue reading » »
Posted in: Citrix, Linux, Presentation Manager, Solaris, XenApp.
Tagged: Citrix · Presentation Manager · XenApp
A recent review of the PDF Documents in our Document Control Library, revealed that most were “image only” PDF’s. We’ve run our document control system on different versions of SharePoint technologies since SharePoint Portal Server 2001. We are currently running SharePoint 2007. I’m surprised that someone did not previously notice that most of our PDF files were not showing up in the searches.
The question is:“How can we get all of these PDFs reprocessed to be searchable for a reasonable cost?” continue reading » »
Posted in: .NET, PowerShell, SharePoint, WSS.
Tagged: OCR · PDF · PowerGUI · PowerShell · searchable PDF · SharePoint
