One of the key limitations of our VDI platform, VMware View at the present time is the lack of support for PCoIP sessions via the View Security Gateway. As I describe in this old blog post, it's a critical issue. The limitation means that in order to utilize PCoIP in a meaningful way at a remote site, one must have an IPsec VPN tunnel established. This adds latency, and a single point of failure that's frankly unaccpetable in an enterprise class solution.
I decided to have some fun in Adobe Premier today. Having never used the program before, I was able to whip this out in a couple hours. :) I think it's pretty scary!
A good friend of mine went to replace a failed hard drive in an old voicemail server. He found this:
We've had a lot more time over the last few weeks to spend working with PCoIP. I've concluded it's still not quite ready for prime time, but it sure is close. When you get it dialed in properly, it's a pretty amazing desktop experience. As I write this, I'm working from a Teradici zero-client on a 12/2 meg Internet connection. I'm connecting via an IPSec tunnel to our infrastructure which is on a 1 gigabit Internet connection provided by Internap.
One of our biggest potential client segments for Virtual IT are IT people that have built up their own contract-based consultancies. We're IT people too, and we've put together Virtual IT as a way to eliminate many of the things that make IT inefficient and needlessly difficult.
A good friend of mine, and former co worker, started a consultancy of his own about 5 years ago and has a few clients he's been thinking about shifting over to our Virtual IT product. A week or so ago, he sent me the following email:
Looks like VMware released View 4.0.1 back in February. The only major fix it seems to address from my list of peevs is ThinPrint printing over PCoIP. Woo.
Some interesting reporting by Bob Sullivan over at MSNBC on some of the privacy issues surrounding cloud computing. The article directly touches on why I started SymbioSystems, and my vision for Virtual IT:
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/04/the-constitutional-issues-raised-by-cloud-computing.html#posts
I received this email over the weekend, and felt it must be shared:
Paul Thurrott of Window IT Pro fame recently wrote an article I think is highly relevant to both SymbioSystems existing and prospective clients. You can read it here:
Interesting post over at Technodrone on a common issue experienced when you replace SSL certificates in vCenter.
If you replace the SSL cert in vCenter, you might experience an issue where certain plugins (namely the Health Monitoring plugins) will fail to load after you load the new certs.
The short story is:
