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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs. Navigating the pandemic. For them, it is career advancement. It’s a win-win.”.

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VMworld 2013 – VMware`s chance to stay relevant

Virtualized Greek

Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. VMware could come in with their ROI calculator and show even with a hefty license cost and hardware investment almost any organization would save money. VMware has some great technology.

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Technology Short Take #44

Scott Lowe

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Servers/Hardware. Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation Docker Hardware HyperV OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet VXLAN Windows'

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Technology Short Take #61

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Is now the time? Is it the right move?

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