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 While the benefits derived from greater business agility are significant, costs are also an important factor to consider.
This is especially true in today’s extremely competitive business environment and difficult economic times.
This article, the last in a series of three articles...Jan. 1, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,634 |
 This case study interview focuses on how Germany’s largest travel agency has remade their PC landscape across 580 branch offices using virtual desktops. We’ll learn how Germany’s DER Deutsches Reisebüro redefined the desktop delivery vision and successfully implemented 2,300 Windows XP...Nov. 17, 2011 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,166 |
 Educators are using of desktop virtualization in innovative new ways to enable "bring your own device" (BYOD) benefits for faculty and students. This latest BriefingsDirect interview explores how one IT organization has made the leap to allowing young users to choose their own client d...Nov. 2, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 Financial analysts, industry analysts, and CIO-focused publications all agree that Desktop Virtualization will be one of the most strategic business initiatives over the next few years. Many organizations have a VDI implementation or project in place solely because of the success they ...Sep. 27, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,728 |
 Citrix said Monday that it had scoffed up Kaviza, makers of a turnkey, production-ready “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for SMBs. The price wasn’t disclosed. Citrix invested in the two-year-old start-up last year; reportedly Kaviza’s only outside money.May. 25, 2011 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,636 |
 People often ask me, “When is it appropriate to use data virtualization versus a more traditional form of data integration (e.g., consolidation using ETL)?”
My answer often surprises them because this is not an either-or situation: data virtualization should be a ubiquitous layer in y...May. 17, 2011 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,935 |
 Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo.
Here is an ea...Feb. 19, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 13,789 |
 Virtualization has the power to transform the way business runs IT, and it’s the most important transition happening in IT today. It promotes flexible utilization of IT resources, reduced capital and operating costs, high energy efficiency, highly available applications, and better bus...Jan. 28, 2011 06:30 AM EST Reads: 4,003 |
 Default configurations are great in that they make the setup and configuration easy. Unfortunately, they don’t work for all environments. In fact, if you simply use the defaults for an entire virtual desktop deployment, you will miss out on tons of optimizations to allow your environme...Jan. 21, 2011 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,874 |
 VMware’s best friend Cisco is going into the desktop virtualization
business with Citrix claiming they’re going to be “game changing.”
The companies say they’re throwing into together because of joint customer
demand.
They also want to ride the adoption hockey stick that Gartne...Sep. 8, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,386 |
 Another day, another announcement, Today I'm happy to announce that Enomaly and Ericom have partnered to offer a complete turnkey cloud desktop infrastructure (CDI) platform for managed service providers. The solution combines Ericom’s PowerTerm® WebConnect with Enomaly's Elastic Compu...Jun. 8, 2010 02:40 PM EDT Reads: 2,706 |
 MokaFive is slumming. Like Citrix, VMware and countless other vendors, they call themselves a “desktop virtualization” vendor, but they ain’t.
Since 1959 the computing world has generally used the word virtual as a rough synonym for simulated as in “virtual disk in RAM,” or “virtual...May. 30, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,214 |
 What do you think are the main ingredients to any successful desktop virtualization project? Is it application integration methodology? Is it hardware? What about the IT team? Based on my experience, the top requirements really boils down to a few core items, all of which I've discus...May. 16, 2010 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,049 |
 A year ago, most IT execs were looking into the "what" of Cloud Computing, as Cloud Expo speaker Dr. Hal Stern of Oracle noted. "But this year, people are here to talk about 'how.'" as he said during his session in New York. (Hal was so integral to Sun Microsystems for so long, it's od...Apr. 26, 2010 05:28 AM EDT Reads: 3,541 |
 Enteros CTO Ron Warshawsky will be presenting a session called, "Hardware vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud - Performance in the Cloud" at Cloud Expo. His session will be on Monday, April 19 at the conference, which is being held at the Javits Center in New York.
His session will report on the c...Apr. 12, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,327 |
 It takes more than hardware and a VM to exceed SLAs! Many firms have achieved great results implementing traditional server virtualization. However, in larger business-critical production database systems, this is less common. Yet, aren’t these exactly the systems from which businesses...Apr. 6, 2010 07:38 AM EDT Reads: 2,937 |
 How does your data center provider impact your customers’ performance? In the session, we will discuss expectations, requirements and needs of a cloud computing infrastructure as it relates to selecting and deploying your customers' applications into a third-party data center or co-loc...Apr. 5, 2010 09:56 AM EDT Reads: 2,163 |
 Many people believe you can take traditional identity and security practices, throw them in a cloud environment, and expect everything to work just fine. Not so! Businesses taking advantage of cloud computing should utilize cloud security approaches that support sharing of roles, polic...Apr. 5, 2010 07:19 AM EDT Reads: 2,780 |
 This session will discuss new solutions to the challenges in today's desktop operational environments and the opportunities for IT to enable the enterprise knowledge worker by reducing time to market and lowering TCO. Areas of focus for this discussion will begin with an outlook on IT'...Mar. 31, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,538 |
 Previously, computer network concepts could not easily be realized within the cloud, because the network itself was not virtualized - just the processing and storage - yet recent developments goe some way toward allowing the virtualization of this infrastructure. These technology advan...Mar. 27, 2010 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,752 |
 Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS & Middleware configurations. There are increas...Mar. 23, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,480 |
 “Mårten is unmatched in his ability to blend open-source business techniques and technologies to build an industry leading company. We are thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to work with him and look forward to seeing his knowledge and boundless energy move Eucalyptus forward...Mar. 23, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,729 |
 "Cloud" has become synonymous with "computing" and "software" in two short years. Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide. The cloud is certainly a compelling alternati...Mar. 18, 2010 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,526 |
 "China has been plagued by piracy for the last 20 years and that unfortunately has caused China not to have a software industry," Lee told Reuters in an interview at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
"But it's irrelevant now, because software distribution is shifting from packaged softwa...Mar. 11, 2010 11:07 PM EST Reads: 5,437 |
 In any case, there's an emerging story about how the Austin giant has made a slight, semantic change in its managed services division, renaming the former ProManage Managed Services to the much more elegant and simple Dell Managed Services.
There are several discussion threads about...Mar. 11, 2010 03:47 AM EST Reads: 2,502 |
 Although I am somewhat of a new user of containers virtualization technology, I thought I'd write a short article giving an overview about using containers virtualization instead of dedicated physical servers for people thinking about trying virtualization technology - especially 'cont...May. 23, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,086 |
 As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased p...Apr. 29, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,138 |
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