Citrix WorkspacePod, an HP Moonshot Architect’s Perspective

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 23, 2015 | Citrix, General Technology, HPE, Microsoft

TLDR: Citrix WorkspacePod summarized in one word: Bundling. For about the last year and a half, I have been affectionately called Mr. Moonshot among my peers and colleagues.  Thanks everyone, you’re too kind! Naturally, at Citrix Summit when one of the big...

XenServer 6.5 Dynamic Memory and NVIDIA GRID vGPU? Now Fixed in 6.5! Go For It!

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 13, 2015 | Citrix, NVIDIA

Earlier this year I wrote a blog post highlighting an issue that a coworker ran into with XenServer 6.2 Dynamic Memory Control (DMC) and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. You can find that article here: XenServer Dynamic Memory and NVIDIA GRID vGPU, Don’t Do It! Talking with a couple...

Citrix and Atlantis Partner Together to Deliver the First Hyper-Converged Solutions for XenServer 6.5! All-Flash No Less!

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 13, 2015 | Atlantis Computing, Citrix

Following the heels of the Sanbolic acquisition announcement, today was yet another big day for Citrix in the world of Software Defined Storage! This announcements has more to do with Citrix partnerships, and what they were able to achieve working with one of their...

Hot off the Presses: Citrix Acquires Sanbolic, Creators of Melio FS. What’s Next?

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 12, 2015 | Citrix

The news is out! Citrix has acquired Boston based Software Defined Storage (SDS) company Sanbolic. Click here to read the full press release. Several months back Eva Helan (Co-founder, president and COO of Sanbolic) put me in touch and I had a call with fellow geek...

XenServer 6.2 Dynamic Memory and NVIDIA GRID vGPU, Don’t Do It!

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 2, 2015 | Citrix, NVIDIA

Updated 2015.1.13: XenServer 6.5 (aka Creedence) has been released to web and this has been resolved in this release. Click here to read my updated article for DMC and vGPU on XenServer 6.5 A couple months back I was working with a colleague of mine (Richard...