Amazon WorkSpaces – Virtual Desktop as a Service

Introduction On November 13, 2013, at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2013 conference, in Las Vegas, NV, AWS announced Amazon WorkSpaces. AWS describes WorkSpace as “a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud.” WorkSpace is essentially a Windows 7...

Research Brief: Instrumentation is not just monitoring

Overview Neuralytix recently met with the CTO of Virtual Instruments, Skip Bacon in Frankfurt, Germany. Neuralytix finds offensive, and completely out of touch, that one of our better known competitor was considering putting Virtual Instruments as a storage resource...

Research Brief: Caching does not have to be complex

Current Overview Caching is a critical part of any IT infrastructure. The use of caching has been around for a very long time, from the mainframe to today’s distributed cluster architectures. The problem with caching had always been the hardware component – namely the...

Nimble Storage says “me too!”

In my job, there are very few surprises. I am privileged to upcoming products, solutions, services and new technologies. After all, if I am doing my job properly, then I should have a good idea about what is coming up next. Add my own experience and initiative, and...