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If you believe the hyped up warning that Network Managers across the globe will be pulling their hair out with employees who stood in line to buy the new iPad 3, bring it to work to hop on the corporate network and download HD videos.

This could be a healthy awakening for the breed of IT management who believe BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is NIMB (Not In My Backyard). 

They try their hardest to peek inside from the outside to get an idea of the worth of the deal. They assess who has showed up as competitors to determine how to develop their bid strategy.

This is not a plug for a Cable TV show but a description of behavior that I recently experienced managing a project to acquire a Enterprise SAN (Storage Array Network) for one of our clients.

The client has outsourced Enterprise Architecture to IPI and what I describe as "connecting the dots in the most efficient and cost effective manner".

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We have exciting things to share.

I found myself going back to the future again recently with applying old technology to new, primarily out of old habits.

I became a new believer of the power of the tablet computer a few months ago. With my newly issued iPad I have been able to overcome most obstacles so the iPad can be a powerful business tool.

Cloud computing is probably one of the most overused and misused terms of today.  I believe the sentiments shared by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on the cloud are somewhat accurate.

So what do you when your wide awake at 2:30 in the morning while the rest of the house is sound asleep? You whip out your tablet and go play in the cloud if you are a psuedo techno geek.

Are we there yet? No it is not the annoying chant of the kids in the backseat but rather the question that is being asked about the maturity and readiness of virtual desktop or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

For those who have escaped the hype around the newest trend that is poised to revolutionize computing let me give you the generic definition.

VDI is hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) typically running on a centralized server or data center. The term was coined by VMware Inc.

No I’m not making light of a serious eating disorder.

I wanted to explore just how skinny the “thin client” might evolve into. Referenced in my Virtual Desktop blog I discussed the emergence of the “thin client” in the Enterprise space.