Kevin Kaminski interviews Kevin Goodman at Microsoft Ignite 2017 to discuss FSLogix including the challenges that companies face when migrating to Office 365. “Today’s episode features Kevin Goodman who has been a long time fixture in the server-based computing, later known as virtual desktop infrastructure, world. Kevin founded RTO Software and had been involved with […]
Archives for October 2017
Advanced Backup Job Scheduling with Calendar Dashboard
Backing up virtual machines, especially in large virtual environments with hundreds or even thousands of VMs, is a time-consuming process that imposes extra load on your VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS infrastructure and its critical components, such as network, hypervisor hosts, and, of course, datastores. If multiple VM backup jobs coincide in time, this can result […]
Black Holes – Casting shadows on SQL Server Parallelism
October 31, 2017 DataCore 0 For any of you who’ve struggled trying to tweak degrees of parallelism (DoP) and affinity masks in multi-core SQL Servers to chop down query times, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news first: your well-intentioned attempts are being defeated by an insidious collection of choke […]
How to configure a Bring-your-Own NetScaler VPX in Azure for XenDesktop Essentials and XenApp and XenDesktop Service from the Citrix Cloud
In addition to my latest blog article – How to configure the Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop Service using Azure Managed Disks and Citrix Optimizer – I’m now sharing my insights on how to use an own NetScaler VPX and StoreFront server inside Azure IaaS (Infrastructure-As-a-Service) to provide access to your Citrix Cloud Digital Workspace […]
TensorFlow lends a hand to build a rock-paper-scissors machineTensorFlow lends a hand to build a rock-paper-scissors machineDeveloper Advocate
Editor’s note: It’s hard to think of a more “analog” game than rock-paper-scissors. But this summer, one Googler decided to use TensorFlow, Google’s open source machine learning system, to build a machine that could play rock-paper-scissors. For more technical details and source code, see the original post on the Google Cloud Big Data and Machine […]
Cisco To Track IoT Devices Using Blockchain
With devices powering the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming more and more popular, it has become necessary to protect them against hacking and other attacks. Cisco plans to do so with the help of blockchain technology. It plans to track the Internet of things devices with its blockchain-based platform. Cisco’s plans were revealed when the […]
Fighting phishing with smarter protectionsFighting phishing with smarter protectionsDirector, Counter Abuse TechnologySecurity & Privacy
Editor’s note: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we’re celebrating with a series of security announcements this week. This is the third post; read the first and second ones. Online security is top of mind for everyone these days, and we’re more focused than ever on protecting you and your data on Google, in the […]
Pixel Visual Core: image processing and machine learning on Pixel 2Pixel Visual Core: image processing and machine learning on Pixel 2Senior Staff EngineerDirector
The camera on the new Pixel 2 is packed full of great hardware, software and machine learning (ML), so all you need to do is point and shoot to take amazing photos and videos. One of the technologies that helps you take great photos is HDR+, which makes it possible to get excellent photos of […]
Big data meets design – Visual communication in big data
The Big Data landscape is defined by four Vs – volume, velocity, veracity, and variety. It also includes interactive data visuals that convey insights and engage the user. The classical understanding of visualization in analytics involves presenting the results of aggregated data in the form of decision support charts to executives within a corporation. This […]
The best hardware, software and AI—togetherThe best hardware, software and AI—togetherSenior Vice President
Today, we introduced our second generation family of consumer hardware products, all made by Google: new Pixel phones, Google Home Mini and Max, an all new Pixelbook, Google Clips hands-free camera, Google Pixel Buds, and an updated Daydream View headset. We see tremendous potential for devices to be helpful, make your life easier, and even […]