The Choice For Provision Networks 

At the risk of making it sound like a cliche, I'd have to say that this is one of the hardest decision I have ever had to make. Why? Well, first of all, Login Consultants is a great company to work for with by far the biggest amount of talented colleagues I have ever had. By the way, I'm only starting at Provision on April the first so I am a full Login Consultant until then.

Second of all, I've been thinking about VDI a lot. To be honest, I was initially (say two years ago) a bit sceptical about the concept. As time progressed, it became clear to me that VDU does indeed have a huge potential and that it is slowly but surely taking off. I really think that this year and the years to come will show a rapid adaption growth. The market for VDI is a huge market. Of all the companies out there only 10-15% all true SBC shops. All the others run "traditional desktops" in a client-server concept. All of these companies potentially could benefit from VDI to take their desktop and application delivery to the next level. I personally think it is a great challenge to be working in this industry in these exiting times.

One thing that I feel particularly strong about is that SBC and VDI aren't all that different. In fact, the are very much the same. It worries me when I see companies that make VDI look like a revolutionary new concept or even "product" just to make it sell better. 

When Provision Networks contacted me and asked me to join them, I thought about this quite a lot. To me, Provision Networks is the only company that really shares this vision. You can clearly look at this when you take a look at the Virtual Access Suite (VAS) . This is not the only factor that made me choose to join Provision Networks though.

I think Provision has a unique and rock-solid product suite and (very important) an associated roadmap / strategy to be able to provide customers with the solution to fit their VDI needs (in addition to their other application delivery needs). Provision has the most talented set of developers I have ever come across that will be able to grow the edge Provision has. Furthermore I consider myself lucky to be joining a team of very talented colleagues (Rick Mack, Jeff Pitsch and Patrick Rouse just to name a few) in other parts of the world in helping to get the word out about Provision Networks. I can honestly say that I am very proud to join such a set of talented colleagues and am very exited about this new challenge.  

What About Thincomputing.net?

Thincomputing.net is very important to me. In fact, over the years it has grown to be a part of me. I mentioned this in my talks with Provision and they were very cool about it. It's like this: since Thincomputing.net is a website that I run solely in my spare time, Provision Networks can not make any claims as to it's content. I will continue to do Thincomputing.net as I did, as I please. The content spread might change a bit though. As always, Thincomputing.net will reflect the stuff that I feel passionate about, the stuff that I deal with a lot, the stuff that I know a lot about. It should probably then come as no surprise to you then that you should not be expecting a "Presentation Server Implementation Best Practises" document from my hand (as I obviously will not be working with Presentation Server that often any more). However, if I feel that there is an item worth mentioning about a competitor of Provision Networks, I will. Again, Provision was very cool about this. They don't believe that you can beat the competition by ignoring them or by bad-mouthing them but just by having a better product. I agree with that 100%.

So just to summarize: Thincomputing.net will not change because I am joining Provision Networks. As always, if you have any questions or comments about Thincomputing.net, feel free to use the "comments section" of every article or drop me a line using the contact form.