Conrad Agramont's Blog

Pipeline Pilot 8.0 Beta Testing Nomination

agramont — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:40:46 GMT

Accelrys is looking for beta testers for its upcoming release of Pipeline Pilot. The beta is tentatively scheduled for the week of December 7. We’d like feedback on a number of capabilities. Of particular interest will be to find out if these capabilities...(read more)

Microsoft PDC Day 2

agramont — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:44 GMT

My notes from Day 2 at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles on November 18, 2009. 8:30 - Steven Sinofsky takes the stage! Kicking it off talking about Windows 7 Video time – “Why we share your pain”…Funny! Explaining how Microsoft...(read more)

Microsoft PDC 2009 – Day 1

agramont — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:10 GMT

This is day one of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). My goal is to keep posting to this single blog entry with updates from the conference based on the keynote and sessions that I attend Keynote – Ray Ozzie 8:30 - Ray takes...(read more)

Accelrys Pipeline Pilot for ITPro’s

agramont — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:40:00 GMT

Accelrys Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server (PPES) is growing in usage within many scientific focused businesses. I won’t go into all of the great things our product can do. However, I am VERY focused on ensuring that we provide the right content, product...(read more)

My new role at Accelrys as Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Technologies

agramont — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:56:10 GMT

This is my third week at Accelrys and now that I have a better understanding of the company and my duties, I thought it might be a good time to share that amongst the blogosphere. First off, let me take care of some personal questions I’m sure I...(read more)

ISV Guidelines MS CRM Part 2: CRM as an Application or Platform

agramont — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:08:00 GMT

In Part 1 of the “ISV Guidelines for Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0”, I covered the basics of leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (MSCRM4) as a hosted platform for Independent Software Vendors (ISV). In this post, I’ll provide some guidance on the...(read more)

BizSpark Incubation Week: Windows 7 – Day 2

agramont — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:22:16 GMT

Day 1 at the BizSpark Incubation Week was a great kickoff, but now the true fun begins! I’ve decided to try something new and make today’s post and active log of our actions through out the day. (We’ll see how good that works). All times...(read more)

BizSpark Incubation Week: Windows 7 – Day 1

agramont — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:34:00 GMT

Today I spent several hours in Reston, Virginia at the Microsoft office for the BizSpark Incubation Week focused on Windows 7. BizSpark is a Microsoft program to help Startups build their software based application or service. One of the chief reasons...(read more)

Virtual Desktops and Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC)

agramont — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:09:11 GMT

A few years ago the United States Federal Government, specifically the U.S. Office of Management and Budget) created a PC standard for then entire government to follow. The provided over 300 settings for Windows XP and Windows Vista in order to...(read more)

Hosted Virtual Machines with XenApp

agramont — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:56:05 GMT

Today on one of Citrix’s Blogs, they announced a new upcoming technology called “ Hosted Virtual Machines ” (HVM). As if the Virtualization Soup of technology wasn’t big enough already, but this does solve an interesting problem. Without much...(read more)

How Windows 7 will boost the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Market

agramont — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:35:53 GMT

As it stands today, there is a large and growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market with vendors spread throughout the software and hardware spectrum. Unfortunately, many enterprises have either not done or heard of VDI or their in perpetual...(read more)

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is now RTM!

agramont — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:00:38 GMT

This is SWEET news! Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is now Released To Manufacturing (RTM). This means that Microsoft is done with the code, sending it to various Original Equipment Manufactures (OEM) such as Dell, HP, and IBM. Everything...(read more)

My Call with Pano Logic

agramont — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:02:04 GMT

I had a great call the other day with the CTO of Pano Logic, Aly Orady. As some of you know, I’ve been doing a fair amount of researching and lab work with various Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies. In looking around for VDI...(read more)

My Notes: VMware vSphere Roadshow

agramont — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:55:25 GMT

Today I attended the vSphere Roadshow in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. The event was delivered by VMware and EMC and was a high-level introduction to the VMware vSphere platform. For a slight moment, I forgot that EMC owns VMware. So...(read more)

Microsoft VDI Suites Licensing

agramont — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:29:30 GMT

I just read the announcement that Microsoft put out about their new licensing model for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/07/13/Microsoft_1920_s-new-VDI-licensing_3A00_-VDI-Suites.aspx If you’ve...(read more)