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XenServer Virtualization Now Free!

Feb 23

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From the Citrix blog :

If you’re reading this, you already know the news: XenServer, our enterprise virtual infrastructure platform is now free (including resource pooling and live relo), and we have announced Citrix Essentials for XenServer, and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V as our virtualization management portfolio that offers a rich set of automated functions that drive the compatible virtualization layers beneath – the free Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft, and the free XenServer Enterprise virtual infrastructure platform from Citrix.  Finally, and most importanly, we announced a powerful go-to-market roadmap with Microsoft.

XenMotion will let you move VMs between boxes without downtime…for free.  Nice!

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When Big News Goes Down

Jul 16

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Following up on our previous post, pingdom has a blog post on downtime for the major news sites.  They cover all the big boys.  ABC News, Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune and Times Online had the most downtime since Jan 1 with up to a whopping 23h 31m.  On the flip-side The Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times were all under 40m and Forbes came in with zero downtime.

You can checkout the pingdom blog post for an interesting analysis.

When Big Sites Go Down

Jul 15

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Data Center Knowledge picked up on a New York Times article about Internet downtime and the reality of trying to provide 24/7/365 uptime for the worlds most popular, and most relied upon, websites and services.

They run through a recent list of outages affecting The Planet, HostDime, ICE, Netflix, YouTube, T-Mobile, Yahoo Stores, Rackspace, Alabanza, ValueWeb, and 365 Main that took sites down anywhere from several hours to several days.

An interesting read to say the least.

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New Remote Desktop Wiki

May 4

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Most of the information that is being collected for remotedesktop.com is more efficiently presented as a Wiki rather than a blog.

You can visit our new Wiki at:

http://wiki.remotedesktop.com/

Patriot Act Considerations

Mar 24

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The Globe and Mail is carrying a very interesting story on the dilemma the U.S. Patriot Act is causing customers of hosted solutions.  The article outlines privacy issues whenever a U.S. based corporation maintains customer data and that data, through the U.S. Patriot Act, becomes available to the U.S. authorities.

This applies to remote desktops and the file servers or SANs that serve them.

As a Canadian-based managed solutions provider, we have already been asked by our U.S. Customers to maintain separate servers in our Canadian datacenters to appease Canadian customers who refuse to have their data travel to the U.S. and be at risk of being divulged through the Patriot Act.  This is not a question of preference or unlawful activity, the U.S. Patriot Act is at odds with Canada’s privacy laws which require organizations to protect private information, and requires that they inform individuals when their data has been shared.

The article truly outlines a very current dilemma for providers of remote desktops and Terminal Services.

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