E.J. Svoboda

Portion sizes are just crazy these days.  I remember as a kid going to McDonald’s with my folks as a special treat.  Now I go out to eat almost every day for lunch.  When I was a kid I would get a hamburger and a small fry along with a small soft drink.  Somehow I found this filling and enjoyable.

A friend of mine recommends eating the kids meal at most fast food places instead of eating one of their “value meals”.  I now try to eat off of the dollar menu since the portions are smaller and in the end I believe you can eat a more reasonable level of calories.

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I was reading Information Week today and saw an interesting article about a hospital that is using VNC to do virtual desktops that users can access inside and outside of the building.  They can use any of the thin clients that are around the hospital to access their personal system and the IT staff is easily able to comply with HIPPA regulations.  I thought it was a well thought out solution for that particular environment.

One of the other big advantages that I see to such a solution is that you can very easily increase resources for a user if they need more memory or storage space.  The backing up of their data becomes much more centralized and easier to manage as well.

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The buzz in the tech press right now is all about how to virtualize the desktop.  It looks great on paper but I believe that it is still a good distance off in the future.  It’s just not ready for primetime.

What is ready for primetime or at least more ready is the concept of virtualized applications.  It is most effective to utilize a hybrid approach so that the local PC does have a cached version of the applications on it in case there are any issues with the connections back to the servers.  The key components of any solutions that are rolled out to users in a technology environment are usability and uptime.

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