Archive for the ‘Matt McSpirit’ Category

New IPD Guide (Beta) – The Dynamic Data Center

Friday, March 5th, 2010

For those of you not familiar with the IPD Guides, they aim to provide a couple of key benefits: Help to define the technical decision flow through the planning process. List the decisions to be made and the commonly available options to ...

TechNet Article: VDI is the answer. Now, what was the question?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

If you’re not a subscriber to the TechNet newsletter, it’s actually a pretty good bi-weekly resource on Microsoft technologies, events, user groups, blogs, videos and more.  In this issue however, yours truly was asked to prepare an article on Desktop Virtualisation, to which I obliged.  I thought ...

Academy Live for Partners – Microsoft Virtualisation: Desktop to Datacenter to Cloud

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Presented by Kenon Owens Monday, March 29th 2010 – 16:00-17:00 GMT As Organizations begin to see the Value of Virtualization and adopt different Virtualization Technologies, they may want to know what’s next? Who can help me realize the benefits of virtualization today, and prepare me to leverage my ...

Microsoft Virtualisation Summit 2010

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

  If you’re around on the 12th April 2010, and you’re interested in learning a bit about Microsoft Virtualisation technologies, plus, have a chat over a brew with me, then this could be the “Virtualisation Summit for you!” Looking at virtualization but unsure about your ...

2 Upcoming Academy Live Sessions: VDI Messaging and Licensing

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

If you’ve been reading this blog over the last few weeks, you’ll have noticed a continued theme around the Optimised Desktop.  The reason for this, as you can appreciate I’m sure, is that more and more organisations are weighing up their options when it comes to future desktop strategy, with ...

System Center Client Management Bootcamp for Partners (UK)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Admittedly, a little late notice, but it’s only just landed in my inbox! The Client Management Bootcamp is a 4-day technical Instructor Led Training designed to enable System Center, Windows Client, MDOP, and Desktop Deployment SI partners to deliver successful POCs based on top customer scenarios around client management. The course ...

App-V 4.6 launches with a plethora of resources!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

It’s hard to believe I’ve used the word ‘plethora’ in the title of a post 3 times in the last 3 months!  I need to start broadening my vocabulary! Anyway, I blogged about the RC release of App-V 4.6 way back in November, and have been using it in ...

More Optimised Desktop stuff!

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Following on from yesterday, Iftekhar, a fellow Partner Technology Advisor and blogger, got in touch and pointed me to another ‘Optimised Desktop’ resource. This video is 15 minutes long in total, but gives a pretty nice, integrated story across different platforms.  If you’re looking ...

Desktop Optimisation – Which technologies, for which users?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I mentioned in my previous post, there are a number of choices available to customers around their desktop strategy going forward, but where do you start?  Well, here’s a few resources to get you going on the journey.  Now, admittedly, these are cut and pasted from various ...

Cometh the hour, cometh the virtualised desktop…

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

OK, bit more dramatic than it actually is, but never mind!  There’s lots of industry buzz at the moment around ‘VDI’, or, to elaborate, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, yet is it the right solution for everyone?  Well, there are plenty of benefits to virtualising your desktop OS’s, however it isn’t always ...