Samsung Galaxy Nexus Here on Verizon

Read news on the delay http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57338812-94/verizon-delays-the-launch-of-the-galaxy-nexus/

Macbook Air and VMware Fusion

My youngest son recently trashed my home laptop that my wife and I share. Luckily I had some decent data recovery software to pull the data off the toasted hard drive. My next decision was to go the cheap and fast route of visiting Costco and purchasing the first eye candy laptop I could find, or go with the later in the year plan of splurging for a mac. After being persuaded to use the 1 year no interest financing option, i splurged for a

. I now have all the software that my wife and I used to use on a PC running on the mac, as well as

which handles the weird apps that would not run in the mac-world. I can't believe I didn't get one earlier. If only I could get my employer to authorize these as a real work computer, especially with either Fusion or View as options to get to a windows world if I needed it.

Wyse Pocketcloud

Nice app for the ipad to get to your home computer. Get it here http://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/index.asp

Application Streaming

To stream or not to stream, that is the question. In the middle of a VMware View project and the decision was finally made to not move forward without investigating application streaming to virtual desktops in order to take advantage of non-persistent virtual machines. Some of the front runners come to mind such as Symantec, Microsoft, Citrix and InstallFree which will all allow the ability to control user profile, lockdown desktop and application streaming on a find me follow me principle.

iGoogle

iGoogle

Wow, Trevor Hoffman of the Milwaukee Brewers just got 600 saves!!

VMworld 2010 Theme

Obviously the theme this year was all about cloud computing and how VMware solutions can help you move towards that model. From cloud solutions like VMware Cloud Director, vShield Zones, vCenter and vShpere all the way to the endpoint access using mobile devices, VMware View, and Cloud based suite solutions like Zimbra, it was clear that the push was to upgrade to vSphere 4.1 as the starting point and move on to use open solutions and standards to migrate your IT Infrastructure into a private, hybrid, or public cloud.

Netflix news

So, Roku started the lead with streaming from Netflix, then XBox 360, then PS3, and now the WII will have an update this spring to stream movies from Netflix. Just found another great site with open source media center called Boxee that runs on Windows, Linux or Mac and supports Netflix streaming as one of the plugins. Looks like they have also partnered with DLink and will be competing with Roku with a hardware device to act as the media center device. Also supports IPhone app to control the Boxee media center wirelessly from your home network. Read more about it here at Boxee

VMware Lab Manager

How many times have you had a developer make the statement "I need a VM to test this one thing. Can I get one to user for a little while?" This generally is the concept behind VMware Lab Manager which allow you to have a VMware Lab that can be sandboxed for VMs that need connectivity for outbound traffic, in and outbound, or no traffic at all by providing a fenced network for your VMs. Best of all, it allows your developers to log in and self provision their VMs and make as many clones, or better yet, linked-clones (which dramatically reduces the disk space needed for the copied VM). Time limits can be set around the VMs that are requested in order to reduce the possibility of VM sprawl. It is a very useful tool that removes a lot of the manual intervention of a VM administrator for provisioning VMs.

VMware Lifecycle Manager

Translation: An automated server request portal build on a very powerful workflow engine called VMware Orchestrator. Vmware Lifecycle Manager allow you to provide your end user community the ability to log in to a web portal and request servers that are based on your own custom VMware Templates and automate the provisioning of those Virtual Servers with built-in approval processes and placement services. The back-end is built on the Orchestrator workflow engine that can be used to build custom workflows beyond the Lifecycle Manager add-on to the orchestrator platform.

Roku HD Player Review

Originally submitted at Roku

The best-selling HD Player (as known as Netflix Player by Roku) plays High Definition video and connects to surround sound audio.

Roku HD Player

Best Media box out there!!

By gr8n8 from Brown Deer, WI on 11/29/2009

 

5out of 5

Pros: Reliability, Video selection, Built in Wi-Fi, Compact, Easy to use, Great value, Easy to set up, High quality picture

Cons: Need fast internet service

Best Uses: Living room, Bedroom, Secondary TV, Primary TV

Describe Yourself: Netflix fan, Home entertainment enthusiast, Power User, Movie buff, Technophile, Early adopter

I've been using the Roku box for over a year now on my Plasma TV in the living room. I am about ready to purchase my 2nd box now that the new upgrade is here to include all the additional free channels. This little box is amazing and providing all the free services and the integration with Netflix and Amazon video just about gives you every video option for viewing movies real-time. You can't beat the price for the feature packed little device and I would recommend that anyone with netflix get one of these, or for that matter, with all the new free channels, anyone could use this box to provide online media streaming, social networking, and RSS feeds, including Pandora radio to your TV.

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