Organizations are facing a unique combination of market pressures including a heightened urgency for IT departments to do more with less while helping the business remain agile enough to take advantage of market opportunities. Meanwhile, security concerns abound with growing and increasingly diverse sets of users, applications and access methods. The question facing many is,
In a virtual environment, the security challenges multiply rapidly and introduce new risks. Where an organization might have had a single application server in the past, in a virtual environment they could see that quickly evolve to thirty servers. How can security, such as segregation of duties for privileged users, be enabled, not only on
An increasingly common trend in commercial organizations and government agencies of all sizes is “telework” – enabling employees and contractors to work remotely on a part-time or full-time basis. These teleworking employees and contractors need: • A reliable and secure work experience when away from the corporate office and when working on their personal or
Remote work is becoming increasingly important for organizations that are attempting to drive down their costs and to become more agile by enabling employees to work from any location – at home, at customers’ sites, in remote offices, etc. Moreover, the US and other governments have become significant proponents of the telework concept as a
The MacBook Air is one of the hottest selling notebook computers and is landing in the hands of corporate executives and travel prone users at an amazing pace. Add to that the latest MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros and you get unprecedented growth of Mac computers in what was once the Windows dominated enterprise. Analyst
The adoption of Microsoft Windows 7 is a major objective for every enterprise organization. Unfortunately this major transformation is proving to be one of the most costly and complex projects for any IT department, especially when combined with all other on-going IT projects. By employing user virtualization technology as part of a people centric approach
IT departments are rarely short of headaches, but few projects instil quite the same level of pain, disruption and cost as operating system upgrades. Tempted by the perceived benefits of newer technology – greater productivity, better security, more effective management among them – IT professionals soon discover that the problems associated with OS upgrades are
Migrating employees to Windows 7 could be a risky and expensive proposition, especially if it affects the employee’s working environment. AppSense’s user virtualization technology manages all the user-specific elements of the Windows 7 migration process as well as providing an alternative approach to managing the user aspects of the desktop post migration.
Today’s data centre is steadily riding a wave of change toward increasing efficiency through the flexibility and consolidation unleashed by virtualisation. But too often, a look around the data centre makes it obvious that storage hasn’t come along for the ride. NetApp has long claimed their FAS platforms are differentiated when it comes to efficiency.
Now is arguably a more challenging time to make decisions about how and where to house your data and IT infrastructure than ever before. A multitude of global and market trends are converging to provide IT leaders with huge amounts of choice, change and complexity.