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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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VMworld 2013 – VMware`s chance to stay relevant

Virtualized Greek

They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center.

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Technology Short Take #61

Scott Lowe

Networking. see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. First up, Matt goes on a bit of a rant regarding SDN and network automation. Both these articles came out of Network Field Day 11 , by the way.).

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Technology Short Take #44

Scott Lowe

Networking. 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. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Virtualization.

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The best free apps for video calling

The Verge

We’ve left them out because they require that all participants be members of a specific social network (Facebook, WhatsApp) or that you use a specific type of device (FaceTime, which is Apple-only). Skype, now part of Microsoft, has added video conferencing to its VoIP features. Open source with plenty of features.

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