Posts by Greyeye 16 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2013
X11 is never optimised for over the WAN or remote access, RDP have evolved a long way that even on narrow and high latency will work resonably well (I have deployed RDP to users on 200-1000ms latency)
Device redirection (local drive, printers, sound) also not in X11.
if you want to compare X11... why not VNC, Teamviewer, Logmein, etc etc
>If the reason is security, then a lot of internet traffic will touch some Chinese-branded network equipment which can be loaded with a backdoor slurper.
What makes you think NSA wouldn't load up their backdoor crap on Cisco/Juniper/Qualcomm/Intel/google?
USA forbidden export of high encryption level software until very recently, and legacy still lingers on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States
Security? What Security? FBI, US Gov, heck, even UK and AUS gov all thinks Security is EVIL and should be open with "gov only back door" but don't call it back door because its used by gov officials.
running VDI in-house is a costly business. VDI license (Vmware or Citrix), hypervisors (yes another licenses), super fast SAN (1 VM can demand over 1000 IOPS during boot and busy period), and of course, file server with profiles and so on.
this isnt to compete with plain old desktop fleets in the office, but to compete with VDI deployments out there that has outgrown or sick of upscaling for the performance.
People voted for change, not because they're racists, haters or bigots. People who have been left out, cornered, and losing job that they had for decades are marching out and voted for a change.
Well educated, who has a decent job and some who has flexibilities to move from one job to other (most modern educated job holders) see Trump as another populist, but for ppl who has been left out and frustrated at the current situation, it is clearly a cry out for a change.
Unfortunately, real change ppl want, will be slow and painful.
i pretty much doubt this can be cost effective nor possible, with numerous red tapes, tenders, paperworks, bureaucracy along the way, you end up costing rate payers millions of dollars just to start feasibility analysis.
What do you think its going to happen?
1 Hire expensive over $1000/day consultants, external vendors with their own agenda, project managers who claims they know all yet all they can do is chase others to do work
2 even if real work may begin, external contractors will charge more for the local gov work, its just not cost effective. (reason is because its takes 100s of pages document just to attend a tender, you really need to make $ for gov tender as well)
might as well call optus/telstra to lay cable, it would be cheaper.
AWS workspace is for an enterprise where considering VDI, not a desktop replacements.
running in-house VDI is quite expensive due to complexity it needs to have rapid deployment of images, fast SAN (as each user will drain 100-200 IOPS during logons) and large RAM on hypervisor farm.
You may not argue why VDI? why not RDS/Citrix XA?, problem is always applications that fails to run under RDS/XA. or apps that perform poorly.
and if you believe its poor performance from where you are, of course it is not meant to be fast for every users from current deployment of US West or US East. For optimal condition, you need sub 100ms to the VMs and/or with WAN Optimisations.
I cant wait for it to be available on Sydney(ap-southeast-2), its going to be interesting.
Having data on the single location is asking for trouble.
Backup to tape and storing to off-site,
Network based off-site backup (aka Cloud backup)
Running over two DCs, (remote sync, DFS-R, RSYNC, etc)
or low level replications done at the storage level.
its not about trust CLOUD providers or not, its how the recovery plan and where YOU save the data. If a cloud provider does not provide good recovery plan, its up to you to select one that does, or deploy data on the additional providers (or store locally)
In Australia, Brisbane, 2011 Jan flood had managed to cause havoc and resulted in massive data losses everywhere. Japan's 2011 earth quake and tsunami and rendered many business near useless.
Yet, Im surprised to see so many ppl believes local premises RAID, SAN, NAS are good enough to data protection.
At work, we backup to the remote network, all VMs are cloned and ready to fire up at remote site as needed.
At home, I use crashplan to backup my photos and images to their sites.
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