Michelle Laverick - Chief Technologist Following my recent work with Horizon View and Instant Clones, I decided to push things forward and see how well Droplet Computing containers could leverage and integrate with the wider suite of EUC technologies from VMware. There's quite an array of tools at the disposal of the administrator. [...]

Michelle Laverick - Chief Technologist It's been a long, long while since I looked at anything Citrix based. It feels really odd saying that because, before VMware came along, I was a Citrix Certified Instructor (CCI) and a Citrix Certified Enterprise Admin (CCEA). I first got into Citrix on the tail end of [...]

Michelle Laverick - Chief Technologist Amazon WorkSpaces was a doddle to get up and running as I am very familiar with VDI and workspace concepts. I’d not touched AppStream before, so I needed a bit of primer. I found this video by Thorr Giddings to be excellent. To the point and, for someone [...]

Michelle Laverick - Chief Technologist This week I spent time working with Amazon WorkSpaces. In case you don’t know, Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. You can use Amazon WorkSpaces to provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of [...]

And so it began ... Michelle Laverick - Chief Technologist Well, it’s just gone past a month since I joined Droplet Computing, and I’ve been busy, busy, busy, as well as you would expect when you start with a new company. As you might suspect, I’ve been quite “internally focused” (which sounds [...]

The Droplet Computing Chronicles - Part I For this blog I’m tweaking the job title of Chief Technology Officer, and substituting the word Technology, for the word Time. Why? Because I wanted to share some of the incredible journey the Droplet Computing team has undertaken over the last [...]