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

There are many benefits to using virtual infrastructure; too many to count.  With all of the benefits, however, come a few challenges that I had not expected before becoming accustomed to supporting users of this virtual environment.  From a user’s perspective, we want to make the experience as close to the “classic” computer experience as possible.  In working towards this goal, we’ve come across a few hurtles that have taken some creativity to navigate. 

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:

Small Business and the Cloud: It's Now or Never