End-point Virtualization and Optimization
Published on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 11:36 am | 3 Comments »
Authors: Mark Bowker | Perry Laberis |
The Movement Toward Integrated Computing: The Foundations for Cloud
The idea that virtualization technologies are revolutionizing the market is no longer novel. Though the conversation has shifted toward cloud computing, server virtualization remains the foundation. Driven by numerous benefits including lower capital and operational costs, greater IT efficiency and agility, and ...
Authors: Mark Bowker | Perry Laberis |
I’m in the midst of my US naturalization process. Aside from anything else, one of the requirements in the process is to provide details of overseas trips one has made over many years as a resident in the US. Since I’ve changed jobs, laptops, and even calendar applications over that ...
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how ...
“Fire up your laptop”!?!?!? I’ve lost count of how many times I have heard this expression and remain baffled by how end-users have become accustomed to and accept the fact that it can take minutes, many minutes in some cases, before a user begins to productively start work. This is ...
ESG recently completed research of 454 IT professionals responsible for supporting IT requirements at their organization’s ROBO (remote office branch office)sites. The research was focused on both midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 or more employees) organizations from North America (30% midmarket, 70% enterprise).
At a high level, the ...
The trend to leverage mobile computing devices for business purposes is rapidly increasing. I can remember joining ESG five years ago and I was the only person in the company with a Blackberry. Now just about everyone in the company has at least one mobile computing device, if not several. ...
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of a solid state drive (SSD) solution from WhipTail Tech with a focus on cost effectively solving storage performance challenges in a consolidated virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Introduction
Background
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of ...
For years, large organizations have centralized applications and IT services in order to cut costs and drive greater efficiencies. This slowly decreased the IT portfolio in remote offices/branch offices. One-by-one, e-mail, file, application, and backup servers were pulled out of branches as these services were moved ...
Published on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 at 1:25 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Kristine Kao | Mark Bowker |
Not only are IT organizations supporting an increasing number of non-traditional computing devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs, but a growing number are also letting employees provide their own devices for both work and personal purposes. Organizations that allow end-users to leverage endpoint devices of their own choosing will ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Kristine Kao | Mark Bowker |
Being tethered to a device is soon to be a burden of the future and strategies such as those incorporated into VMware App Manager start to unlock users from devices and enable device-independent access to applications. One of the drivers of this user centric model is the ongoing adoption of ...
