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This week, our office came across an article by Roger A. Grimes entitled “Why you don’t need a firewall”. As a security professional working for a company whose responsibilities include firewall management, I found the article to be extremely shortsighted, and borderline offensive. Nor...
I spend most of my day typing arcane things into black windows with green text, as such I spend some time looking for ways to eliminate keystrokes. I’ve been using bash and vim for more that 10 years and I continue to learn more features that I can use on a daily basis. I’ll give you s...
During this week’s webinar (Wednesday, May 16th at 11:00AM EDT. / 8:00AM PDT.), attendees will learn how to deploy a desktop virtualization pilot based on Citrix’s® industry-leading VDI solution – XenDesktop®, quickly and easily with lower upfront (capex) and ongoing ...
Major changes have taken place in the network in the past 15 years. The type of data that users are passing across the pipes is significantly different in size and composition. And, the coming “data explosion” promises to put even the most robust networks to the test. When you add in ...
London, United Kingdom, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage today announced that the SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server is now available to be used with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). SMEStorage has delivered its Cloud File Server product to be used by customers who have pr...
This week ExtraHop announced new monitoring capabilities for Citrix VDI deployments, developed using the latest protocol specifications from Citrix and verified as Citrix Ready for both XenDesktop and XenApp. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) continues to gain interest for its prom...
London, United Kingdom, May 09, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Vehera LTD, trading as SMEStorage, today announced that it has integrated the BaseCamp® project management cloud solution into its hosted SaaS or hybrid Cloud File Server platform. SMEStorage already works with over 35 informatio...
Sanbolic To Also Demonstrate How To Achieve A Complete Enterprise-Class VDI Environment In Less Time, With Less Effort, and Lower Upfront Costs At Citrix Synergy 2012 (Booth 711) Wednesday, May 9, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: SQL Server Virtualization with San...
User Virtualisation Solutions Transform Organisations into Productive Mobile Workforces Securely Governed by IT London - May 8, 2012 - AppSense, the people-centric computing company, today announced the intent to acquire RAPsphere, a mobile IT company developing mobile information mana...
Family of high performance NAND flash silicon storage products is faster, more scalable than anything on market todayWHIPTAIL, the world leader in high performance 100% solid state storage arrays, today publicly launched INVICTA, the world's first scale-out, modular, enterprise class s...
The IGEL Universal MultiDisplay solution increases productivity by allowing workers to use three to eight monitors in parallel at the workstationReading, UK, May 8th, 2012 - IGEL Technology today launched its new IGEL Universal MultiDisplay software solution to allow specialist workers...
ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualisation DeploymentsLondon, May 8, 2012 - ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced the launch...
Mega-sites like Twitter and popular browsers are all moving to support SPDY – but there’s one small glitch in the game plan… SPDY is gaining momentum as “big” sites begin to enable support for the would-be HTTP 2.0 protocol of choice. Most recently Twitter announced its support f...
ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualization Deployments   SEATTLE, WA – May 7, 2012 – ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutio...
It is great to see more conversations and coverage around storage metrics that matter beyond simply focusing on cost per GByte or TByte (e.g. space capacity). Likewise, it is also good to see conversations expanding beyond data footprint reduction (DFR) from a space capacity savings or...
"State University of New York, Upstate Medical University(SUNY Upstate) depends on Sanbolic Melio to provide high availability for its Citrix PVS server, EMC storage based enterprise compute environment.   "By decoupling the data management respons
"VDI deployments can impose a tremendous strain on storage infrastructures. Frequently in fact, VDI installs are derailed by unexpected storage cost, complexity and performance degradation," said Rich Brumpton, director, National Virtualization Practice, MTM Technologies, Inc., nationa...
Next week will undoubtedly be one of the busiest, most exciting weeks for IT Operations professionals this year. Thousands of IT pros in the Citrix universe will be heading down to San Francisco for Citrix Synergy 2012. And thousands more will be off to what has become the Mecca of en...
Yes, I’m back (finally) with another in my series of expanded-answers to questions I have received during TechNet Events and IT Camps I’ve facilitated. But for these next blog posts I’m going to have a little fun by actually showing you the written question. Great question. Windows...
The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobili...
Enterprises Benefit From Faster Window 7 Migrations and Lower Costs VDI DeploymentsLondon, May 2, 2012 - AppSense, the leader in people-centric computing, today announced a major update to the AppSense User Virtualisation Platform focusing on simplified set-up and administration, exten...
Hearing different discussions about APIs in general and cloud in particular got me thinking, besides the usual Application Programming Interface meaning, what other options exists including those to have some fun with. How about some of these among others to have some fun and take a q...
During this week’s webinar (Wednesday, May 2nd at 11:00AM EDT. / 8:00AM PDT.), attendees will learn how to utilize Sanbolic’s Melio distibuted data management software to achieve the greatest return on an investment in desktop virtualization. The webinar will focus on comme...
We’re less than two months out of the next CloudCamp. As usual that means, we’re getting some question to give our thoughts on. I have to say the questions were really good this time. So I thought I’d share them here as well. Q: Agree or disagree? – “While the I...
Strategic Partner MTM Technologies Seeing Huge Uptick in Demand for Sanbolic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions Waltham, MA – (April 24, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced that Q1 2012 marked yet another record quarter for t...
For my regular readers: Sorry about the long break, thought I’d start back with a hard look at a seemingly minor infrastructure elements, and the history of repeating history in IT. In the history of all things, technological and methodological improvements seem to dramatically change...
Consumerize Any IT Service - Physical, Virtual or Cloud - with Independent IT Service Catalog for ServiceDesk ITSMSERVICE DESK UK - Apr, 24, 2012 - Biomni, the pioneer of User-Centric Enterprise Service Catalog and Request Fulfillment solutions, today announced integration with Service...
Last week I read with interest Richard MacManus’ story about nine years of history with ReadWriteWeb and I am glad to see that the site has continued to evolve over the times. But let’s look at where the Web was … Continue reading →
This last fortnight there’s been a cacophonyof hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts withregards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM
Arlington, TX, April 19, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The $149.99 PKard solution lets people access web portals, collaboration sites and email directly from their iPads and iPhones with secure authentication to their personal smart cards. For example, a US military reservist can access education...
SDI research sponsored by LANDesk reveals mounting pressure on service desks to support organisations with reduced funds and resourcesLondon - 19 April 2012 - As organisations continue to feel the impact of limited budgets within fast-paced, demanding industries, service desks are unde...
Sunnyvale, CA, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LAYERZngn today announced the availability of CPlane OpenTransit, the newest member of the CPlane Framework family of infrastructure automation products. CPlane OpenTransit is available on a controlled-release basis to service providers and s...
A Phoenix client since 2005, Welcome Break recently signed a new three-year maintenance contract covering its nationwide network of service stations. "We are the UK's leading motorway service station company," says David Willock, Director of IT, Welcome Break. Of the three major player...
This is great… Today Microsoft announced that there will be three (count ‘em.. 3) editions of Windows 8 when it goes on sale – presumably later this year.  “Wait a sec…only three?  Didn’t Windows 7 come in 6.. or more?” Yep.  Three.  Brandon LeBlanc writes on the...
Reading, UK April 17th 2012 Fast growing Executive Search company Freshfield Services has cut its annual IT budget by more than 35% per year after switching to Alchemy Systems hosted virtual desktop solution and IGEL thin clients.Freshfield Services, which specialises in finding talent...
Noticed this morning a Pew Research report that TWENTY PERCENT of adults in the United States will not use the Internet. Consider that for a moment…one in five are not online at ALL. The main reason? Well, they just don’t WANT TO… That’s right. There’s “no...
New Application Readiness solution accelerates migrations to Microsoft, Citrix, VMware and other virtual environments while increasing success rate and reducing costsMaidenhead, UK - April 17, 2012 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for a...
San Francisco, CA, April 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Every year Cibecs runs the Business Data Loss Survey, uncovering the major IT challenges around data protection, and providing industry insight. Last year’s survey results were read by over 50 000 IT Professionals. The 2011 survey ...
SAP has become a big advocate of HTML5 for enterprise mobility. Many of their recently announced partnerships with mobile vendors include strong endorsements of HTML5. I also see HTML5 playing a very important role for mobile applications developed in house. It is very hard to justi...
Princeton Jct, NJ, April 13, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Rapid Protect announces a major update of its award winning mobile applications and the web service platform. Rapid Protect applications are designed to address the growing need of security, safety and collaboration for individuals and bu...