Earlier this week, Oliver Bendig, our VP of product management wrote a great post on finding the balance between user freedom and IT control. He compares the consumerization of IT to taking a trip to a Subway sandwich shop – which reminds me, it’s almost lunchtime. Anyway, what he means is that, like ordering a five dollar foot long at Subway, you have numerous – but not unlimited – choices. Similarly, IT should offer users a broad menu of services but also establish boundaries to avoid support, security and compliance issues. Oliver says it better, so here is where I tell you to click on the hyperlink above to read the rest of his post.

To the average person, the term “downtime” conjures up images of relaxing on the beach or spending a quiet night at home not thinking about work. To those in the computer and IT industries, “downtime” means disruption to important business processes, aka “utter chaos.” This past Monday, August 8, an issue with Akamai’s DNS servers led to outages for “major Internet sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Apple.com, BestBuy.com and Buy.com,” according to a GigaOM article by Ryan Lawler.  A spokesperson from Akamai reported that its customers’ websites were impacted for less than 30 minutes, which is like three and a half hours in dog hours, right?

Just because it may have been a slow week of news in the world of desktop virtualization doesn’t mean we don’t have anything to talk about! For starters, our blog was recently accepted into Guy Kawasaki’s blog directory Alltop, which aggregates top stories from websites and blogs about hundreds of topics, virtualization being one of them.  You can check us out, well, here, but also here on the Alltop virtualization page. So go ahead, feel free to shout it from the rooftop or tattoo it on your forehead! Or just pass it on to your friends and be sure to stay tuned into our blog for upcoming news and our thoughts on what’s going on in the industry. Moving on…