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Force 3 Makes Headlines at Newseum with Launch of New Services Initiative, Support+!

February 28th, 2013

On February 27th, we held our official launch at the Newseum for Support+ and the guest list was full with attendees from Cisco and Force 3 customers! We got a … [ Read more… ]

How companies can save money if employees work from home

March 29th, 2012

            By Jason Oh In this economy, more and more companies are reevaluating their current IT infrastructure and going back to basics to cut costs … [ Read more… ]

Cisco ISE monitoring capabilities demonstration

December 1st, 2011

      By Rob Chee, Security Team Lead Watch and listen to Rob Chee, Force 3 Security Team Lead, demonstrate the monitoring functionality of Cisco’s Identity Services Engine here. … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 2: VMware View Installation)

July 15th, 2011

 By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead Unlike the ESXi install, VMware View installation was straight forward.  I spend most of the time updating windows during the installation process.  Plan … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 1)

July 15th, 2011

By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead Setting up VMware View Security Server Now that I have the base VMware View setup, I really wanted to watch videos on my … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 5: VMware View security and, really, how well does this thing work?)

June 15th, 2011

By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead Setting up VMware View Security Server Now that I have the base VMware View setup, I really wanted to watch videos on my … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 4: deploying desktop pools and accessing the VMware View system)

June 15th, 2011

 By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead The desktop master is up and running!   At this point, we’re ready to deploy VDI desktop pools.  A desktop pool is a group … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 3: creation of a desktop master virtual machine)

June 15th, 2011

 By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead So, we've got VMware View installed.  Now what?   The key technology of VMware View is the use of VMware View composer with … [ Read more… ]

A Personal “View” on Virtualization

May 24th, 2011

  By Lee Collison, Solutions Architect My answer to the ‘Virtualization Review’ article, "They Said It (About Citrix, That is)" specifically addresses the differences between XenDesktop and VMware View.  In … [ Read more… ]

The things a systems engineer must know: adventures in creating a LAN

May 11th, 2011

  By Terrance Johnson, Systems Engineer Xmodem to the rescue!!  While working at Force 3 as a Junior Network Engineer, I was offered the opportunity to create a small Local Area … [ Read more… ]