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A colleague of mine on cloud computing:
Clouds are good in one thing only……in producing rain.

When discussing Linux or open source solutions, some people are really biased.
A nice way to tackle this is to ask this question:
How many of you use Linux? Probably some people will raise their hand.
Next ask the following question..
How many of you use Google? And ask them why? Most likely the majority of people will [...]

Current economical reality dictates us to cut costs in all areas of our business, so also in IT.
When cutting cost keep in mind following objectives:
- Reduce costs as much as possible without negatively impacting essential services.
- Cut waste permanently, this will require process and procedure changes.
- Consider charging for all new services, if you [...]

Converting a physical windows server to a virtual one is easy by using the correct tools. For Linux boxes it is a bit complicated as tools often don’t support the Linux platform.
Here is the basic procedure I use to convert Linux from physical to virtual.
The first step is to make an image of [...]

Today, customers are fairly in control of their servers but when it comes to the desktop environment, they are faced with five major challenges.
1. Management
You need to support the desktop environment on a day-to-day basis.
2. Security
Major topic and often overlooked. Desktop infrastructure is more than just the workstations on desks. You also [...]

According to some leading experts it does!
Quote from the Open Solutions Alliance
The present economic downturn will lead to an increase in adoption of open solutions due to their flexibility, scalability and value.
Quote from Mr. Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems
It’s intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary software.
Quote [...]

Just got back from VMworld 2009 in Cannes (France), where the present and future technology solutions on virtualization were presented.
The conference was awesome, with lots of interesting sessions, great speakers and fine location.
My main interest was oriented towards virtual client computing and application virtualization and honestly, I was a bit disappointed.
Although the idea and [...]

The Vyatta Community Edition (VC) is award-winning, Linux-based, open source software providing routing, firewalling, VPN, intrusion prevention, and WAN load balancing services, among others, for your network. When you run Vyatta on a standard x86 hardware system, you’ll create a powerful network appliance that can run circles around proprietary systems. Vyatta also runs virtualized [...]

I’ve posted this article back in November 2005. Although I strongly believe in this tool to increase creativity and revenue, I don’t see this opportunity been (correctly) applied in many organization.
We are heading towards a very difficult 2009. Companies who are lacking to innovate, to adapt, to even take some risks, as [...]