Recently we have been working on the migration from Citrix VDI hosted in Europe and America to Azure Virtual Desktops hosted in Singapore to provide better experience for our users in China to access some internal resources. It’s not a big problem from technical perspective like how to set up the AVD environment and provide same access and permissions to company resources as in Citrix VDI as though they are on different platforms, they share much in common like the basic settings, security policies, etc. This also proves what I have been believing that as IT maintenance personnel, knowing what can be done and how things can be done technically is the foundation for the work, and what’s more important is to look at things from a higher level, or from the project perspective, and have a better sense on how to arrange available resources and better balance the budget, resources and end users’ expectation.
Things are changing, sometimes very fast, but we have no reason to fear as most of the things, new ones and old ones, are inter-related, especially to IT fields. Whether it’s Citrix or AVD, Cloud or on-premise, newer coding languages or the very historic ones, they share some in common and in most cases, they do give us enough time and opportunities to migrate from one thing to their replacement, instead of asking us to learn it as a totally new things from the very beginning. But there are always some cases that can not be handled by technology itself or can but with very high cost which is not worth at all. It’s like balancing between several things. If we consider only one of them, we can go as far as we can as the more of this, the better, but in real life, more often than not, if we go further to one aspect, probably it will drag down the others. Balance is a piece of art, or can even be called the highest level of art, whether it’s to the real problem in work field, or in our life as well.