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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. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”. Navigating the pandemic. It worked like magic.

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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

Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). While containers solve some problems very elegantly, they don’t necessarily solve other problems quite as well, and this article dives into one such area (VoIP architectures). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Is now the time? Is it the right move?

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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. Virtualization. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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The best free apps for video calling

The Verge

Skype, now part of Microsoft, has added video conferencing to its VoIP features. Open source with plenty of features. Jitsi Meet is an easy-to-use open-source video platform. Special mention should be made of Houseparty , a popular consumer app that lets up to eight people use a virtual room to chat.

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