When it comes to monitoring the health of your Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environment understanding it’s overall health can be critical. The level of criticality can vary of course depending on what your organization uses Citrix for, but there are many industries that rely on their Citrix deployments for their critical applications. That being said, the solutions […]
Data Scientist - The Next Highly Demanded IT job? Or Not?
Data scientist is the hot new job role. Some have even called it the sexiest job of the century. However, when you look at some of the job postings for data scientists, it seems like this job title could mean many different things. I’ve seen everything jobs advertised as “data scientists” that are actually descriptions […]
Welcome to the #CitrixCTP Class of 2017
Recently the new CTP picks were announced, and I am honored to share that I have been selected to be recognized as a Citrix CTP for the 3rd year in a row. It truly means a lot to me to be recognized for my Citrix community contributions over the years. It’s a great community and […]
Office 365 User Licensing
One of the challenges of adopting Office 365 is getting your head around the licensing. The licensing terms themselves are straightforward. You subscribe to a license for a user for the product or product set (plan) that they need to use. That subscription is a small amount paid monthly or a larger amount paid annually. […]
Introducing AWS Lightsail
Navigating the AWS ecosystem can be a daunting effort. Over the last year, hundreds of services added, making finding the ones that will matter to you tricky to say the least. One of the challenges with getting started with AWS is doing seemingly simple things like just setting up a basic server from a template. This […]
Is Work-life Balance Achievable in a Tech Role
When working at organizations over the years my expertise has always fallen into the advanced technical role. When working for organizations that have expectations of system availability around the clock it is easy to lose sight of what it means to maintain work-life balance. Always being available to team-mates for your areas of expertise is […]
Should Everyone Get a Mailbox?
I was recently asked to define the difference between a Mail enabled user and a mailbox user within an Exchange organization. While explaining the differences between the two it dawned on me that Sysadmins and users are still confused on this topic. Throw in Exchange contacts and the party gets more fun! What seems simple […]
Don’t mix old habits with Office 365
The technical part of a migration to any new technology is usually straightforward and hopefully well documented. If you’re moving to Office 365, there are a number of Microsoft resources and third party migration tools like SkyKick, BitTitan and Sharegate to do the actual “lifting and shifting” of your data into the Cloud. We like to think that we’re […]
Top Announcements from Citrix Summit
Citrix Summit for partners wrapped up in Anaheim with much news and excitement. While there were many outstanding announcements some of them are still NDA. That being said and after reviewing the list of announcement these are the ones I am most excited about today. Citrix Acquires Unidesk! This news was more than exciting to […]
Amazon EC2 Instances Explained
Amazon Web Services added nearly three new services per day in 2016. The challenge for the many traditional virtualization administrators and operations teams is that we are up against the velocity of AWS when organizations ask about how to get better at the business of IT. The sheer size of AWS and the breadth of […]