Turning over the desktop: VDI, Terminals and more

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In this week’s IT Leadership blog, Scott Lowe talks about some of the reasons you might consider VDI. Here, he’ll go over some of the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form.

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A look at an iSCSI-based highly available architecture

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High availability is an important consideration in any service and becomes more important all the time. Scott Lowe shared with you a look at the highly available storage infrastructure implemented at Westminster college.

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iSCSI is the future of storage

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iSCSI is here to stay and will eventually supplant a significant portion of the installed base of Fibre Channel SANs out there. Further, as organizations make their initial forays into block-level shared storage, iSCSI will beat Fibre Channel more often than not.

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Will you evaluate Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008?

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Microsoft has released a standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Will you evaluate it for your organization? Scott Lowe explains the ins and outs of this new product.

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How do I… Install VMware Workstation as a Service?

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Under default conditions, VMware Workstation does not support the ability to run virtual machines as a service. Stephen Warren shows you can change the default behavior using the Windows 2003 Resource Kit.

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Does a free VMware bare-metal hypervisor hurt Hyper-V?

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VMware has made their ESXi hypervisor product a free download from their web site. Will this hurt Microsoft’s foray into the virtualization market? Scott Lowe thinks it will, at least for the short-term.

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