We use a "tag" system for keeping track of topics on BrianMadden.com. Here's everything we have that's been tagged with "The Future". This includes forum posts, blog entries, podcasts, videos, and presentations.
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Tim Mangan is at the Citrix Summit this week. Citrix runs the Summit is yearly to update their partners on upcoming product changes. While this is an NDA event, preventing reporting on much of the details, there still is much to talk about this week. Today he reports on Day 2. This is the second Citrix...
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Tim Mangan is at the Citrix Summit this week. Citrix runs the Summit is yearly to update their partners on upcoming product changes. While this is an NDA event, preventing reporting on much of the details, there still is much to talk about this week. Today he reports on Day 0. This is the second Citrix...
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I'm sure that we are all in agreement that we live in a time of profound and accelerating change. I've said it before and I'm saying it again right here that, " with almost perfect certainty, over the next decade your company will be challenged to change in a way that you may never have...
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We've been seeing Macs more and more at the conferences, training classes, and other public functions we attend. At BriForum this past summer, we even got to see presenter Joe Shonk switch to a Mac mid-conference, when he closed the lid on his Vista laptop, stormed off to the Apple store, and came...
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Old Wine in New Bottles?! Is virtual desktop infrastructure old wine in new bottles?! Will this still be the case in 2010? If there is just one buzzword in the IT industry, then it is “virtualization.” Nowadays we virtualize the network, storage, hardware,...
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I've written quite a bit about remote computing protocols over the past few months. In a world that's been dominated by RDP and ICA for a decade, it looks like a lot will be shaken up over the next 6-12 months. Certainly a lot of people are buzzing about Qumranet's (now Red Hat's) Spice...
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Yesterday Google launched a beta of a new web browser they're calling "Chrome." (Windows only at this time, with Mac and Linux in the works.) Most peoples' initial responses are "Oh great, ANOTHER browser to deal with!" But Google is saying "No no! This is not just another...
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ZDNet's Victoria Ho interviewed Lawson's CEO Harry Debes about the Software-as-a-Service model. Debes thinks that model is going nowhere and will be completely dead in two years. On demand? The Cloud? All overblown hype. What do you think? Is SaaS / on-demand applications / The Cloud just another...
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I was just reading a bit about the Democratic National Convention that is kicking off today in Denver, Colo. and the Republican National Convention set to kick off on September 1 in Minneapolis, Minn. To my surprise, I found myself working before I reached the end of the article. The article talks about...
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In a recent post, I stated “these are very tough times, but the technology is there to be revolutionary and make great things happen for the business. I told them that they just need to be that revolutionary person to drive change.” I’ve had a couple of comments online and more offline...