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What’s in a name?

February 1st, 2012 by

By Scott Perry, Solutions Architect       With the recent addition of twins to my family, we found one of the greatest challenges during our pregnancy was picking baby … [ Read more… ]

Cisco ISE monitoring capabilities demonstration

December 1st, 2011 by

      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… ]

Catch up to your employee’s demands: Go Beyond the Desktop!

October 4th, 2011 by

By Scott Perry, Solutions Architect, Collaboration Take note, workforce. We have entered a new era: The “Post-PC Era”. No longer does the PC tie employees down with its chains. Studies … [ Read more… ]

Leveraging vPC/VSS with ASA 8.4

September 1st, 2011 by

By Greg Stemberger, Security Team Lead, CCIE (R/S, Security, Service Provider) Virtualization technologies such as VMware ESX Server and clustering solutions at such as Microsoft Cluster Service currently require Layer … [ Read more… ]

Introduction to Cisco ISE and its scalability potential

August 24th, 2011 by

By Rob Chee, Team Lead, Security Consulting     The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) provides a way to ensure that only authorized users gain access to the network and … [ Read more… ]

Repurposing Desktops as PCoIP Zero Clients

August 16th, 2011 by

  By Chris Kostolini, Data Center Engineer With VDI gaining a lot of popularity, a lot of companies may want to “test” this solution before investing their time and money … [ Read more… ]

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

July 15th, 2011 by

 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

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… ]

Force 3 Joins VMware Ready Program

June 22nd, 2011 by

Recently VMware announced the expansion of their VMware Ready™ Program that will provide customers validated desktop virtualization solution architectures that meet VMware’s functional and scalability requirements and are delivered by … [ 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

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… ]