VirtualizationAdmin.com - Monthly Newsletter - April 2017

Since July I have been writing a newsletter for VirtualizationAdmin.com, and I figure it is about time I let's all my other social media readers know about it. I know, sometimes I suck at self-promotion, but I will post the summary each month to the blog going forward so if you don't subscribe you might check out the newsletter if there is a topic or two of interest. So let's kick things off with the intro to the April 2017 newsletter.

Hello and welcome to the next edition of the VirtualizationAdmin.com newsletter. I’ve picked a couple of topics in the news this month by looking at some new developments at FSLogix where they have a solution focused on Office365 users. VMware has an upgrade out for customers that add some enhancements to their server virtualization platform. After the articles of the month, I will look at hypervisor security since I think there is some work to be done in this area.

Read more at: http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/newsletters/monthly-newsletter/virtualizationadmin-com-monthly-newsletter-april-2017-16510.html

Curious About Modern VDI?

For the latest set of MVPDays events in Western Canada, I had the opportunity to speak about VDI. The MVPDays team was really on the ball this time around to record some of the presentations, so I had the opportunity to have my video posted to Microsoft's Channel 9. It was a great time to reconnect with fellow MVPs and customers in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Hope to do it again next year.

The session looks at how new hardware, software and the cloud is changing the world of VDI. Many smaller organizations have found traditional VDI to be too complex and expensive to adopt while enterprises have struggled to manage it. In this session, I have an overview of some of the modern challenges facing VDI and the options you have to overcome it.


I will review some of the latest trends in hardware to create easy to deploy VDI environments on-premises and look at how the cloud is simplifying the design and operation of VDI. I also explore other technologies at the software level that manage the VDI environment from the hypervisor all the way up to the user data. It has been a long journey for VDI, but I believe we finally see cost effective solutions that make a stronger case for organizations to phase out traditional desktop computing devices.