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High Availability Clusters in VMware vSphere without Sacrificing Features or Flexibility
This paper explains the challenges of moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.

Many large enterprises are moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources.

Realizing these benefits with business critical applications, such as SQL Server or SAP can pose several challenges. Because these applications need high availability and disaster recovery protection, the move to a virtual environment can mean adding cost and complexity and limiting the use of important VMware features. This paper explains these challenges and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.

Understanding Windows Server Cluster Quorum Options
This white paper discusses the key concepts you need to configure a failover clustering environment to protect SQL Server in the cloud.
This white paper discusses the key concepts you need to configure a failover clustering environment to protect SQL Server in the cloud. Understand the options for configuring the cluster Quorum to meet your specific needs. Learn the benefits and key takeaways for providing high availability for SQL Server in a public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) environment.
IGEL and LG Team to Improve the Digital Experience for Kaleida Health
Bringing secure, easy to manage, and high-performance access to cloud workspaces for Kaleida Health’s clinical and back office support teams, IGEL OS and LG’s All-in- One Thin Clients standardize and simplify the on-site and remote desktop experience with Citrix VDI.

Kaleida Health was looking to modernize the digital experience for its clinicians and back office support staff. Aging and inconsistent desktop hardware and evolving Windows OS support requirements were taxing the organization’s internal IT resources. Further, the desire to standardize on Citrix VDI  for both on-site and remote workers meant the healthcare organization needed to identify a new software and hardware solution that would support simple and secure access to cloud workspaces.

The healthcare organization began the process by evaluating all of the major thin client OS vendors, and determined IGEL to be the leader for multiple reasons – it is hardware agnostic, stable and has a small footprint based on Linux OS, and it offers a great management platform, the IGEL UMS, for both on-site users and remote access.

Kaleida Health also selected LG thin client monitors early on because the All-in-One form factor supports both back office teams and more importantly, clinical areas including WoW carts, letting medical professionals securely log in and access information and resources from one, protected data center.

Disaster Recovery Guide
In this guide, we provide insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and available solutions for data protection, especially in modern, digital-centric environments. We explain which benefits and efficiencies Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers and how it compares to other business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) technologies. Within this guide, we want to provide organizations with the right information to choose the best data protection solution for their needs.

In this guide you will learn about Disaster Recovery planning with Zerto and its impact on business continuity.

In today’s always-on, information-driven business environment, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster – whether natural or man-made – is key to avoiding costly downtime and data loss.

-    The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immense
-    See how to greatly mitigate downtime and data loss with proper DR planning, while achieving RTO’s of minutes and RPO’s of seconds
-    Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by man-made disasters such as software problems and cyber security attacks
-    Zerto’s DR solutions are applicable for both on-premise and cloud (DRaaS) virtual environments
-    Having a plan and process in place will help you mitigate the impact of an outage on your business

Download this guide to gain insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, especially in modern, virtualized environments and the public cloud.

The Ultimate Guide to AVD
In three easy steps to an easy and successful implementation.
Deploying Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) can be complex. Recast Software provides the necessary flexibility in your end-to-end AVD deployment. This document has been created to describe our approach and recommendations to an easy and successful
deployment of your AVD environment.
Unmasking the Top 5 End-User Computing (EUC) Challenges
The work-from-anywhere world is upon us. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the digital employee experience as good or better than the office experience. ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work.
Today, millions of people across the globe are now working remotely. Though COVID-19 will soon be but a memory, this “work-from-anywhere” trend is here to stay. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the employee experience as good or better than their experience in the office.

ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work. From slow logons, application performance issues, network latency, unified communications issues, to slow sessions, this paper explains the top five survey findings and explores the ways ControlUp helps mitigate these problems.
Shaping the Future of Remote Access With Apache Guacamole Technology
In today's hybrid and remote working era, the importance of secure and convenient remote desktop access has become increasingly evident. As employees access sensitive data and systems from various locations and devices, organizations face heightened security risks. These risks include potential data breaches and cyber attacks, particularly when IT and DevOps teams use privileged accounts for remote infrastructure management.
In today's hybrid and remote working era, the importance of secure and convenient remote desktop access has become increasingly evident. As employees access sensitive data and systems from various locations and devices, organizations face heightened security risks. These risks include potential data breaches and cyber attacks, particularly when IT and DevOps teams use privileged accounts for remote infrastructure management.

Since 2016, many users have turned to Apache Guacamole, a community-driven open-source remote desktop platform that is free for anyone to use and if your organization is technically savvy. The source code is publicly available to compile and build.

However, if you’d like software that’s ready to deploy for the enterprise and comes with responsive, professional support, Keeper Connection Manager (KCM) can provide an affordable way to get all the benefits of Apache Guacamole.

KCM provides users with a secure and reliable way to remotely connect to their machines using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Virtual Network Computing (VNC), Secure Shell (SSH) and other common protocols. Moreover, KCM is backed by a responsive team, including the original creators of Apache Guacamole, ensuring expert assistance is always available.

Let’s dive into the importance and challenges of remote access below.

VMware DEM and App Volumes Overview Comparison with ProfileUnity & FlexApp
This guide has been authored by experts at Liquidware in order to provide information and guidance regarding some of the frequently asked questions customers encounter while exploring the FlexApp™ Layering technology.
This guide has been authored by experts at Liquidware in order to provide information and guidance regarding some of the frequently asked questions customers encounter while exploring the FlexApp™ Layering technology. FlexApp Application Layering is an integrated part of ProfileUnity that enables applications to be virtualized in such an innate way that they look native to the Windows operating system (OS) and other applications. FlexApp is a perfect complement to ProfileUnity, which provides full user environment management (UEM) with advanced features such as Application Rights Management and context-aware settings for printer and policy management. Although FlexApp is cost effectively licensed with ProfileUnity™, the solution can be licensed separately if your organization has already standardized on an alternative User Environment Management solution. Application Layering leads to much higher rates of compatibility than previous technologies which used Application Isolation to virtualize applications. Once applications have been packaged for layering, they are containerized on virtual hard disks (VHDXs) or virtual machine disks (VMDKs). They can be centrally assigned to users on a machine-level or context-aware basis. FlexApp applications are compatible with virtual, physical and multi-session Windows® environments such as VMware® Horizon View, Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops and Microsoft® AVD. This whitepaper provides an overview of FlexApp concepts and ways in which FlexApp can serve as a cornerstone in an application delivery strategy. FlexApp greatly reduces desktop administration overhead by dramatically reducing the need for traditional software distribution and through a reduction in the number of base images needed to support users. FlexApp is a powerful ally of VDI users and administrators. This paper compares Liquidware solutions to VMware App Volumes version 4 and its current updates through the last revision of this document.
Build a Better vSAN
This white paper explores the development of a next-generation virtualized storage area network (vSAN) that provides high performance, data integrity, and cost-efficiency. Addressing the limitations of traditional VMware vSAN, it emphasizes the need for a solution that integrates seamlessly into a hypervisor, supports deduplication at the core, and offers robust data resiliency, including maintaining access during multiple hardware failures.
Building a superior Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) involves addressing traditional solutions' performance, resilience, and cost shortcomings. The next-generation vSAN, like VergeIO's VergeOS, integrates storage and hypervisor functionalities into a single efficient code base, matching the capabilities of dedicated storage arrays while maintaining the cost advantage of vSANs.

Key improvements include:
  • Hypervisor Integration: Seamless integration for better performance and scalability.
  • Cost Efficiency:  Eliminates expensive server hardware and storage controllers.
  • Built-in Deduplication: Core-level deduplication for minimal performance impact, maximum efficiency, and significant cost savings.
  • Intelligent Hardware Failure Protection: Enhanced resilience with data copies across multiple nodes and drives.
  • Advanced Snapshot Capabilities: Unlimited, efficient and independent snapshots.
The white paper "Build a Better vSAN" offers an in-depth analysis of these advancements, providing insights on improving vSAN performance, ensuring data integrity, and reducing storage costs. This approach sets a new standard in virtualized storage solutions, offering the reliability of dedicated storage arrays at vSAN prices.

A Step-By-Step VMware Migration Process
This comprehensive guide outlines a structured process for transitioning from VMware to VergeOS. It covers evaluating alternatives, planning the migration, execution, and post-migration optimization. Learn how to achieve cost savings, extend hardware life, and improve ransomware resiliency without disrupting operations. Download now to access detailed migration plans and a thorough VMware exit checklist. Get the insights you need for a smooth and efficient virtualization transition.

Discover the Essential Guide to VMware Migration

Transitioning from VMware to VergeOS requires careful planning to minimize disruption. Our guide provides a structured process for a smooth migration:

Key Sections of the Guide

1. Evaluation of Alternatives
   - Research and Trial: Identify and test virtualization solutions for performance, compatibility, features, and support.
   - Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compare costs and calculate ROI to evaluate benefits over VMware.

2. Planning the Migration
   - Detailed Plan: Outline timelines, resource allocation, and risk management.
   - Infrastructure Preparation: Ensure hardware and network compatibility

3. Execution and Post-Migration
   - Pilot Migration: Start with non-critical systems to test the process.
   - Full-Scale Migration: Schedule during low-usage periods, back up data, and execute the migration.
   - Post-Migration Testing: Verify functional and performance standards in the new environment.

4. Phased Migration Process
- Backup/DR: Use VergeOS for cost-effective backup and disaster recovery of the VMware environment.
- NAS Replacement: Replace Network Attached Storage with VergeOS.
- Testing: Test workloads for compatibility and performance.
- Conversion: Incrementally convert virtual machines, starting with low-priority workloads.

Download the full guide now to optimize your virtualization strategy.

Understanding the VergeIO Architecture
Facing challenges with your virtualized infrastructure? The search for the right solution can be overwhelming, with VMware's complexities and costs, lackluster alternatives, and the escalating expenses of the Public Cloud. VergeIO's ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) offers a streamlined, efficient approach that simplifies IT and cuts upfront and ongoing costs.
What You'll Learn:
  • Why on-premises data centers still relevant, and how can they be more cost-effective
  • How VergeOS integrates server virtualization, networking, and storage into a single unified code base, surpassing traditional HCI while supporting external storage.
  • The three pillars of UCI are a unified code base, three-dimensional scaling, and virtual data centers.
  • How VergeOS’s common sense, per server, licensing model saves you money.
  • How VergeIO’s multi-layered approach to ransomware resiliency and data protection provides the fastest recovery options with the least data loss.
GigaOm Sonar for Cloud-Native Data Protection
GigaOm recognizes HYCU as a leader in cloud-native data protection for its seamless coverage across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and VMware. HYCU simplifies data management with enterprise-grade protection for diverse multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Key strengths include comprehensive on-prem, cloud, and SaaS protection, broad workload support, rapid AI-powered innovation, advanced data visualization with R-Graph, and robust security and recovery capabilities.

GigaOm’s report spotlights HYCU’s seamless data protection and recovery across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and VMware. Recognized for its robust multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support, HYCU simplifies data management and ensures scalable, enterprise-grade protection across diverse cloud environments.

Cloud-Native Data Protection: Simplify, Secure, and Scale Your Cloud Journey

Read the report to learn why features like these put HYCU in the leaders’ circle of cloud-native data protection:

  • Comprehensive data protection: Covering on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments - crucial for today's diverse IT landscapes
  • Broad workload support: Protecting data across major cloud providers, SaaS applications, and development tools
  • Rapid innovation: AI-powered, low-code development for quickly extending protection to new data sources, significantly outpacing traditional providers
  • Advanced visualization: HYCU R-Graph for data estate discovery and visualization, enhancing compliance and identifying protection gaps
  • Robust security and recovery: "Extensive encryption capabilities" and "fine-grained recoverability" for enhanced data security and efficient restoration
Coretek Teams with IGEL to Transform VDI Deployment for a Defense Contractor
IGEL’s industry leadership has made it an integral part of Coretek’s on-premises VDI offering. This offering uses Nutanix in combination with Citrix VDI to deliver secure end-user access to virtual applications and desktops.

A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship spanning nearly two decades had attempted to migrate to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment twice with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for help.

Coretek's VDI offering has evolved significantly over the years to better support today's power users. Due to its industry leadership, IGEL OS is currently the standard for new customer VDI rollouts at Coretek. One of the things that the Coretek team appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools. In this particular case, IGEL OS, in combination with new Dell endpoint hardware, enabled Coretek to restore performance following a significant shift in the customer’s usage of its UCC tools.

The customer is currently utilizing high-performance VDI desktops, leveraging IGEL OS at the endpoint, to design defense equipment and support connectivity and collaboration through video conferencing. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ supports Zero Trust security approaches and partners with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and reinforce these solutions from a security standpoint.

Florence Bank Teams with COCC and IGEL to Pivot from a Traditional to a Virtualized Desktop
The combination of COCC's iWorkstation and IGEL OS enables the community bank to connect its remote and hybrid workforces to VMware Horizon desktops while enhancing security, improving efficiencies, and reducing costs.
Florence Bank’s decision to adopt the COCC’s iWorkstation and IGEL has enabled the community bank to quickly modernize its IT infrastructure.

Since deploying COCC’s iWorkstation offering and IGEL OS within its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, Florence Bank has streamlined its IT operations and improved the security of its endpoints.

IGEL’s Preventative Security Model, for example, provides a secure, manageable, and scalable platform, enabling a stronger Zero Trust framework and streamlined endpoint management.

The combination of the COCC iWorkstation and IGEL OS has also allowed Florence Bank to repurpose its aging hardware, in many cases extending its hardware refresh cycles by an additional five years, saving upwards of $100,000 to $150,000 in the process and enabling the community bank to take a phased approach when upgrading its desktop infrastructure.


How Stratodesk Boosts Endpoint Security
Security is one of the chief concerns facing VDI deployments. It could be argued that security is the chief reason for virtual desktop infrastructure. It acts as a safety precaution against exploits that target endpoint devices, natural disasters, theft, and beyond. Additionally, VDI allows IT to manage thousands of devices from one central location. Furthermore, with VDI, no data is stored on the endpoint itself, and yet, end users get the advantage of a full computing environment.
Security is one of the top concerns facing VDI deployments. It could be argued that security is the primary reason for virtual desktop infrastructure. It acts as a safety precaution against exploits that target endpoint devices against natural disasters, theft, and beyond. Additionally, VDI allows IT to manage thousands of devices from one central location. Furthermore, with VDI, no data is stored on the endpoint itself, and yet, end users get the advantage of a full computing environment. Nevertheless, servers, new hardware, IT overhead, Windows licenses, and malware/antivirus contracts easily add up to a fortune. IT must deal with the massive demands placed on its staff resources. It is estimated that organizations spend upwards of 1,000 hours a week on average updating, maintaining, and patching their endpoints alone. Unfortunately, given how busy IT system administrators are today, it is far too difficult for them to manage the endpoint security of each of their devices without the right solution in place. To enable an effective and secure VDI deployment, enterprises and organizations must educate themselves on the many options, challenges, and benefits of securely scaling their network of devices, as well as the alternatives available to reduce IT staff hours and overall costs.
4 Main Benefits of a Thin Client
A Thin Client is a compact, secure desktop computer running a Thin Client OS. It stores no sensitive data locally; instead, all data and applications reside in an on-premises or cloud-based data center. Compared to traditional PCs, Thin Clients are smaller, quieter, more energy-efficient, and cost-effective. They also reduce IT overhead for maintenance. Discover the benefits of Thin Clients for businesses of all size.

A Thin Client is a compact, secure desktop computer that operates using a Thin Client Operating System. Unlike traditional PCs, Thin Clients do not store sensitive data or applications locally. Instead, all data and applications are securely hosted in an on-premises or cloud-based data center, seamlessly integrating with your Windows or SaaS environment. This architecture enhances security by minimizing the risk of data breaches, theft, or unauthorized access.

One of the key advantages of Thin Clients is their efficiency. Compared to conventional desktop PCs, Thin Clients are significantly smaller, consume less power, and generate minimal noise. Their streamlined design not only reduces the physical footprint in the workspace but also lowers energy costs, making them an environmentally friendly alternative. Additionally, Thin Clients require less maintenance and fewer hardware upgrades, translating to long-term cost savings for organizations.

Thin Clients also simplify IT management. With centralized control, IT teams can efficiently monitor, update, and troubleshoot devices across multiple locations without the need for on-site maintenance. This reduces IT overhead, allowing staff to focus on strategic initiatives rather than time-consuming hardware support.

So why choose a Thin Client? With enhanced security, reduced costs, simplified IT management, and greater efficiency, Thin Clients are an intelligent choice for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure while improving productivity and security.