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December 2010 - Posts
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The Technology Preview includes a selection of the new features to be released with NX 4.0, including a revamped client GUI, new server product line, and the highly-anticipated NX Web Player, a global leader in cross platform remote access and application delivery solutions, announced a software pre... Read More...
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Part one of this article suggested that IO bottlenecks on virtual platforms may be due to the normal behavior of NTFS, the Windows file system. In a virtual environment, where you have multiple copies of NTFS running on the same physical server, there is the potential for competition among VMs for... Read More...
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The largest cost component for managing desktops is operational, including staff to support image and application management, security, provisioning, backing up data, and server maintenance. 2010 was the year customers started to realize the benefits of centralized desktop management in order to... Read More...
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If you can move faster than your competitors, you can exploit transient market opportunities before they do. Countless companies are betting on cloud computing as a technology path that will help give them that coveted speed and agility. The coming year will no doubt be riddled with predictions of i... Read More...
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2011 will be a big year for IT change and growth, especially as IT budgets are back on the rise - Gartner has even predicted that spending, specifically on IT, will increase by 60% (per employee). Here is a look at a few predictions on how the IT industry will change and grow over the next year:... Read More...
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Quest Software recently signed an agreement to license source code from Liquidware Labs, a desktop transformation solution provider founded by David Bieneman, who earlier founded Vizioncore, a virtualization backup and management company that was acquired by Quest back in 2007.... Read More...
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Here is rPath's proposal: Instead of managing images, look upstream to the source of software, configuration and change—the stuff that goes onto the image itself—and manage that.... Read More...
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Wiping the dust off the crystal ball we keep locked away in a special, darkened room here at Quest and peering into the not-so-distant future that is 2011, what do we see for desktop virtualization? Well, a few things:... Read More...
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With RackSpace's recent acquisition of CloudKick, AppFirst, the only provider of complete data collection and proactive monitoring as a service (MaaS) solutions, now becomes the lone independent Cloud server monitoring and management solution available on the market today. Demonstrating their conti... Read More...
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The virtual and hosted desktop marketplace has come a long way in the last year and can do much more in the year ahead. Enthusiasm and interest has increased, major vendors are jumping in, but there's still some misalignment in expectations and the state of product offerings. The coming year shoul... Read More...
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In the past few years we have had a unique position in the market that has allowed us to see different angles of the future datacenter. The march toward that vision continues and we all know adoption and the acceleration of cloud technologies will continue to grow exponentially. However, as clouds ... Read More...
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According to a recent survey of nearly 100 IT professionals conducted by SolarWinds, more than 60 percent of respondents have already invested in the cloud or are evaluating it for the future. The survey findings also highlighted that top concerns include security, application issues and lack of exp... Read More...
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Since 2007 I have been convinced that cloud computing has the potential to change the way enterprises think about their infrastructure and the services they deliver to their customers. I have had the good fortune to spend the last few years working with the great team here at CloudSwitch, the cloud ... Read More...
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Wikileaks ought to have you sitting bolt upright in your black leather CIO chair. Independent of your views of the legitimacy or otherwise of Wikileaks, the last month has given us a shocking demonstration of the results of weak IT control over enterprise data and applications, and the incredible ... Read More...
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In 2011, we'll continue to see a rise in cyber-attacks through malware and other forms of malicious activity. We'll also see growth in organized crime as it leads a new round of attacks, ones that security vendors need to prepare for now. As we look ahead to 2011, we see the increasing importance of... Read More...
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Enterprise computing is changing rapidly with advances in cloud computing. The benefits of computing on a shared utility model are beginning to make sense, and vendors are offering viable solutions that deliver real benefits. Despite an increased adoption rate, the cloud still presents a number of c... Read More...
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Even in the face of the ongoing global financial crisis, the mobile/wireless industry experienced huge growth and reinvention in 2010. Worldwide handset volumes soared to more than 1.3 billion units (ABI Research), with 20% of them smartphones (Gartner). Mobile applications and app stores dominated... Read More...
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While it's certainly more dramatic to trumpet The Death of the PC, the reality is far more mundane. Consumers and businesses will continue to purchase PCs - lots of them. What the events of the past few years have set in motion, however, is the eventual marginalization of the personal computer as ... Read More...
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In 2011, the operating system (OS) as we currently know it will be categorized as a legacy system.... Read More...
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With Gartner estimating the cloud services market to reach $150.1 billion by 2013, there's no question that the cloud is in everyone's forecast. But as the cloud computing industry continues to grow, so does the myth that it will close to eliminate the need for hardware. However, as the number of c... Read More...
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