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Re: Non Sequitur Fridays: The SouthCoast: Massachusetts' Diamond in the Rough

Doug Lane — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:15:04 -0000

Nice post. I'm waving the Wistia flag here in Westport today.

Re: How to get .mobi files into Kindle on the iPad

Doug Lane — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:48:57 -0000

I use Amazon's "Send to Kindle" app. You can drag and drop a .mobi file on to it, and it lets you check off one or more devices (including Kindle for iPad) to send it to.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/se...

Re: Pulling the Plug on the Phone Company

Doug Lane — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:58:54 -0000

Cool, glad it was useful, Sue. The setup as I have descibed it so far is primarily for handling inbound calls. We actually don't make a ton of outbound calls at home, and we found that we are often calling other people on AT&T Wireless, so we get free mobile-to-mobile minutes.

Since AT&T is not the best, I also augment it with using Skype for outbound calls. You can buy Skype credit to call phones (as you probably know), or in my case I have a $3.99/month Skype plan that gives me unlimited calling to U.S. and Canada.

I am planning a follow-up post where I share some additional tricks like setting the outbound Skype caller ID to show up as your old phone number. As long as the original post is, believe it or not I still have more to say about this topic.

Re: Pulling the Plug on the Phone Company

Doug Lane — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:31:17 -0000

Great, Kelly! If I convince just one more person to stick it to the phone company, my work is done.

It is not surprising that you forgot I have a blog given how infrequently I have posted. Trying to step up my blogging activity both for work and personal stuff, since I do really enjoy it.

Re: virtualization.info | Virtual Computer releases its NxTop client hypervisor for free

Doug Lane — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:30:15 -0000

Alessandro,

Thanks for taking a look at our free download option. Just want to state for the record that while we are not religious about only ever running on our own hypervisor in the future, we have absolutely no intention of slowing down our client hypervisor development efforts. Citrix has made great strides with XenClient and has done wonders to raise the visibility of client hypervisor technology. However, they haven't caught us yet, and we are not taking out foot off the gas pedal.

Our biggest challenge as a startup is market awareness, and that is why we've made this move to get NxTop into the hands of as any people as possible. There is plenty of room for more than one horse in the client hypervisor race. We encourage users to try XenClient, try NxTop and reach their own conclusions.

Also, we have a stand-alone hypervisor option in the works that will allow users to create VMs directly on the client hypervisor in cases where they do not wish to stand up a Hyper-V server. We expect to have this out within the next couple of months. This will open up the NxTop free download to an even larger population of potential users.

Doug Lane
Virtual Computer, Inc.

Re: Citrix and VMware behind the schedule with their client hypervisors

Doug Lane — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:51:00 -0000

My apologies for not making the additional disclosure that Citrix is an investor. It was not an intentional omission.

We'd love to see netbooks get a little more horsepower to support client virtualization. We have done a little bit of experimentation with the higher end Atom processors with VT-x support in them, but they are still probably a generation away. AMD could be a wild card in that space over time as well, because they have started to include AMD-V all the way down to their entry level processors.

Re: Citrix and VMware behind the schedule with their client hypervisors

Doug Lane — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:18:41 -0000

As an employee of Virtual Computer, I am not an objective observer here, but I honestly don’t see how VDI can really take off without client hypervisor technology being a bit part of the mix. More than half of the PCs that corporations are buying are laptops these days, and the trend is towards more mobility—not less.

Desktop virtualization (be it VDI or client-side) offers tremendous management upside over traditional PC management approaches, but if those benefits can only be applied to a minority of users and come with a big data center price tag, there isn’t a compelling case to make the jump.

Re: Release: Virtual Computer NxTop 1.2

Doug Lane — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:40:48 -0000

We appreciate the mention. While our primarily mission is to apply client hypervisor technology to simplify centralized PC management by IT teams, we have had a large number of requests to offer the hypervisor stand-alone as you describe. So, while our product requires the management system to deploy virtual desktops to to the client hypervisor today, I wouldn't rule out a stand-alone hypervisor option down the road. We'll keep everyone posted on what we decided to do in this area.

Re: The next step in virtualization: Virtual Computerâ€™s NxTop

Doug Lane — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:47:29 -0000

Gabe--thanks for keeping an eye our our progress and taking the time to write up your thoughts. No offense at all on focusing in on the hypervisor, since we are very proud of the work we have done with NxTop Engine. However, what we really hang our hat on is being the first to bring together an end-to-end experience. This is what we think will take bare-metal client hypervisors mainstream. We look at it like it like iTunes and the iPod. MP3 players existed before the iPod, but they only exploded when someone (Apple) made it dead simple for everyday users to unlock the power of the device. We view NxTop Center the same day. A client hypervisor is useful on a stand-alone basis for virtualization savvy folks. However, we believe a seamlessly intergrated management console designed to leverage the hypervisor to reduce PC management costs will dramatically accelerate adoption by even people with minimal virtualization experience.

Re: Mike D’s 2009 Predictions

Doug Lane — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:11:01 -0000

Thanks for all of the great posts in 2008, Mike. My prediction to add:
Client hypervisors (whether provided by VMware, Citrix, or upstarts like my colleagues and I at Virtual Computer) will emerge from their current "offline VDI" niche status to become the predominant delivery vehicle for virtual desktops.