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...

Getting Started with Atlantis USX! Basic Installation and Configuration Guide for the 2.0 GA Release

by Dane Young, MBA | Oct 9, 2014 | Atlantis Computing

About two months ago I joined Atlantis Computing based out of Mountain View, California as a Sr. Solutions Architect. After recent partner trainings, customer demos, POCs, and implementations, I felt the need to share a couple USX deployment scenarios and installation...

Rapid Provisioning Bulk Virtual Machines using SCVMM and Hyper-V; Creating Full Clones for XenDesktop or Microsoft VDI

by Dane Young, MBA | Apr 6, 2014 | Citrix, Microsoft

Over the last several years I’ve written a number of PowerShell scripts, ranging in complexity from one-liners to very complex multi-function modular packages for distribution (See the Citrix Chained Reboot Scripts for XenApp and XenDesktop for an example of one...

GPU Tech Conference (GTC) 2014 Presentation – If You Build It, Will They Come? Better Question Is, Will They Stay?

by Dane Young, MBA | Mar 26, 2014 | Citrix, General Technology, VMware

I was recently asked to present an session at the GPU Tech Conference 2014, sponsored by NVIDIA (http://www.gputechconf.com). Below is the description of the session with the attachments and images from the slide deck.  Click here to listen to the 30 minute recorded...

Rapid Provisioning Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Hyper-V hosts using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) – Part 1

by Dane Young, MBA | Feb 10, 2014 | Microsoft

Don’t miss the YouTube video with the results at the bottom! Over the last several years, I’ve been deploying a LOT of Hyper-V. As a long-time VMware fan, I have to admit, System Center and Hyper-V are sorely lacking in my opinion when it comes to Host...