On-premise private cloud Helping our clients tackle the question of how and when to leverage private cloud technologies for virtual workload hosting is a primary focus for Kelser in 2014. The server, storage, and network OEMs have offerings that range from single SKU solutions that are very easy to spec and order, to reference architectures that still need some final design and tuning.

VMware officially announced Horizon 5.3 (View) at VMworld EMEA (Barcelona). It’s a great evolutionary release to the product line. VMware is calling it: “VDI 2.0 Vision Delivered”. Here at Kelser we have several customers using View (excuse me, Horizon) and we use it internally as well. It’s been a stable platform that’s both powerful and easy to use. Here’s my top new features “round-up”. There are other important features which will have a more subtle impact on your environments: