In his final series article, Tom puts the nifty little device through all its VDI paces -- and likes what he sees.
In part 3 of his series on the SimplyNUC Moonstone mini-PC, Tom installs VMware Workstation on the device and runs and benchmarks the performance of a small and large Windows 10 VM.
In part 2 of his series, Tom benchmarks the device to have a baseline to compare the virtual machines he will run on it after installing VMware Workstation.
Tom gets his hands on SimplyNUC's most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, sticks Workstation on it and declares: "This thing is a beast in a very small package."
IT consultant and attendee Paul Schnackenburg digests many sessions to explain changes coming in the Defender suite of security products, Windows Server v.Next and SharePoint.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/28/2023
A prevailing trend was the integration of AI and ML into Kubernetes environments, with a specific focus on dynamic resource allocation and the potential economic impact of generative AI.
- By Benjamin Rubin
- 11/27/2023
Tom details his experience in Barcelona as a technologist, presenter and journalist.
Paul discusses the new and established offerings and how they can work together to help developers and infrastructure folks deploy and manage applications at scale.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 10/31/2023
KubeCon's affordability makes it possible for start-ups to attend and showcase their products and offerings, giving techies like Tom Fenton a glimpse into the future.
"What if I told you that we could take data from your database, feed it to an OpenAI model and have it give us insights about that data?"
Tom says VMware in the past has announced its EUC products at the Europe event, so it will be interesting to see if they continue this trend.
It's very easy to get started with Azure and deploy resources that will help you use the Microsoft cloud to do amazing things -- but then you get your monthly bill and wonder if there are ways to control it.
Paul looks at new Microsoft Sentinel features improvements added over the last 6-12 months and how he uses it with his SMB clients to give them monitored cybersecurity protection on a shoestring budget.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/28/2023
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has become a critical part of DevOps, allowing for declarative definition, configuration, deployment and management of simple and complex IT solutions.
Modern distributed applications require much more than just application logic, and features such as state management for services, communication using publish/subscribe messaging and event-driven binding to cloud resources might be needed, and two experts will show how Dapr can help.
Many monolithic IT systems have morphed into distributed solutions based on service-based architectures, but with monoliths making a comeback, the important thing is to find the right approach for a specific situation.
It's high time for Microsoft to have a rebirth -- the death spiral of its attitude to security needs to change.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/05/2023
An application is an idea that has code, data and infrastructure, and choosing whether to build a conveyor belt or to put up guard rails along the path is important in maintaining velocity to the cloud.
Learn about employee awareness and training, vulnerability management, implementing robust security controls and much more.
Paul's review: Entra Internet Access makes a lot of sense, while Entra Private Access is an interesting evolution of the existing App Proxy and could be a no-brainer for SMBs with on-premises resources.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 08/17/2023