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So what exactly can you do in 16 minutes?  Well, you can: Download and install your preferred tax prep software, because (if you’re in the US or Canada) April is coming Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame, then reminisce and/or lament about it for exactly 1 minute. Save 15% on your car insurance (y…

You may have caught this week’s announcement from Citrix on the availability of XenDesktop 7.5 (see announcement here).  With this release, desktop virtualization implementers can tap into new elasticity and efficiencies of provisioning, managing, and scaling-up/down their deployments in real…

As you may have seen in the announcement on December 17th, Cisco along with its partners Citrix and Desktone by VMware, are announcing our joint solutions for Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS).  Clearly our customers demand choice and flexibility in how they choose to implement desktop virtualization, not…

The VDI landscape is increasingly evolving to embrace virtual desktops that look, perform, and respond like their physical predecessors.  Whether it’s application responsiveness with low latency across the network, or high-performance storage with expansive IOPS capacity that mirrors  the native exp…

It’s a beautiful thing when you can hijack four not-quite random people off the VMworld show floor and get them to tackle a discussion on desktop virtualization.  And that’s exactly what we did a couple weeks back, when the opportunity presented itself.  With Courtney Burry (VMware), Mike Brennan (C…

With just a week ahead of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, there’s a lot of planning to do.  For example: Saying “thank goodness it’s not Vegas” Finding a suitable bacon-themed party to attend (I’ll explain) Checking out some useful VDI content at VMworld So if you’re earning your trip to SF by doin…

Pack your bags, double up on shoes and leave room for swag, it’s time for VMworld 2013, and Team Cisco Data Center has a lot going on. For a full round up of our show presence, this: http://www.cisco.com/go/vmworld Now for the the behind the scenes look. First, follow @CiscoDC and #ciscovmw fo…

Venturing off the beaten path may just be the only way to stay ahead of the competition. And while IT-as-a-service and cloud computing concepts are not as precarious as once perceived, there are still a lot of unknowns as businesses and organizations set out to explore new possibilities. Discover ho…

Cisco IT has always encouraged employees to use the tools that help them work most efficiently from anywhere on any device. As the range of IT services we offered has increased, we noticed that the process of acquiring the various tools became complex and confusing. We had a number of different inte…