Anith Gopal

Secrets of Successful Desktop Virtualisation: The Optimised Desktop VDI is a hot topic at the moment but what actually is it? When is it the right solution … and when not

Secrets of Successful Desktop Virtualisation: The Optimised Desktop VDI is a hot topic at the moment but what actually is it? When is it the right solution … and when not? Given the challenges nowadays – making the right choices is even more critical than ever.

Oxford Computer Group (OCG to their friends) are running a free seminar on “Business Ready Security for Education, including Identity & Access Management”, at our campus in Reading on Thursday 6th May 2010. OCG are a long-standing Microsoft partner who do a lot of work with universities on managing digital identity across a campus network connected to web services.

Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London. Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10 th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria.

Jonathan Noble has let me know that there are still plenty of spare spaces at the free event at Newcastle University next Wednesday (the 8th), which will be looking at Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 for education. And the agenda includes DirectAccess, BranchCache and XP Mode – all mentioned earlier in the week .

Last year I was surprised and pleased to learn that I’d somehow made it to become the Computer Weekly 2008 Public Sector blogger of the year (for my Schools blog ).

“Explore how to make IT more cost-effective in uncertain times. Microsoft and partners invite you to this invitation-only event.” Dan sent me details of our “Virtualisation and Management Conference” on 10th March

One of our partners, Parabola Software, asked me to let you know about their free “SharePoint in Further Education” day which we’re hosting at our main offices in Reading on Friday 27th March. As well as an opportunity understand what Sharepoint can offer and chat with people from Parabola and Microsoft, you’ll be able to see what other colleges are using SharePoint for and to network with them

  Carla, from our Virtual Earth team, tells me that they have another free seminar coming up in March, where there’s a chance to get an overview of our web-based mapping solutions. I think this is probably going to be more useful for developers, and potentially some of the teaching staff, but there’s bound to be somebody out there that I didn’t think about that will find it relevant to a project. The day has a mainly technical slant, and there’s a session of tips for developers.