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For its recent study, “Unified Endpoint Management: Simplifying the Security and Support of PC and Mobile Devices,” Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) surveyed more than 100 IT directors. The results of that survey indicate multiple points of confluence between user desires and enterprise requirements that can be addressed by modern UEM. Users Want Freedom of Choice EMA […]

With ransomware exploding, we’re frequently asked how to remediate after an attack. Ransomware is becoming more common and bad guys are becoming more sophisticated, using innovative ways to evade the latest detection techniques. Can you trust your AV (gen1 or gen2 antivirus solutions) to “clean” the malicious code? How can you be sure the bad […]

For its recent study, “Unified Endpoint Management: Simplifying the Security and Support of PC and Mobile Devices,” Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) surveyed more than 100 IT directors. The results of that survey identify multiple benefits of unified endpoint management (UEM), for IT, for users, and for the enterprise. UEM Tames Endpoint Complexity EMA found that “the average business […]

Ivanti Reinforces Commitment to World-Class Professional Services Ivanti today announced it has hired Gwendolyn Smith, a specialist in leading customer services for hyper-growth software businesses, as Executive Vice President, Customer Success & Professional Services.  With a more than 20-year management track record in custom development, training and support, Smith will play a key role in […]

UEM and cybersecurity are separate specialties within many enterprises and IT teams. However, these two important disciplines are inextricably intertwined. Herewith, some thoughts on those interdependencies and what they mean to your UEM and security management efforts. Security Begins at Your Endpoints The respected market watchers at Forrester Research perhaps said it best in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q4 2016. “Endpoint security represents the frontline in your […]

UEM and ITSM are separate specialties within many enterprises and IT teams. However, there is one critical link that connects these two important disciplines: users. Herewith, some thoughts on that connection and what it means to your ITSM and UEM efforts. ITSM: It’s All About the Users (Almost) In 2016, Ivanti Senior Product Marketing Manager Melanie Karunaratne summarized the results of conversations with numerous IT and ITSM teams […]

To empower more technology-reliant workforces, organizations must transition distributed desktop environments to cloud-hosted software aggregation services. These “digital workspaces” enable standardized business work environments that are fully customizable, easy to maintain and secure, and are accessible from any device at any location at any time. How do digital workspaces differ from other workspaces? In the simplest terms, […]

Last week heralded the release of Ivanti User Workspace Manager 10.1 Feature Release 2 (FR2) – formerly known as AppSense DesktopNow Plus – including updates to Environment Manager (EM), Management Center (MC), Application Control (AC) and Performance Manager (PM). Let’s take a quick look at some of the highlights of this release… GeoSync [Ivanti Environment […]

There’s an old saying that goes like this: “The doors of history turn on small hinges.” So do our lives as human beings. So does the longevity of a business. Those “hinges” are the choices we make—the decisions that direct our destiny. Fortunately, most choices are minor course corrections vs. monumental shifts. What adjustments or […]

We introduced a new web-based Management Portal for RES ONE Workspace in the 10.0 release earlier this year. Hopefully you’ve already been working with the new modern, easy-to-use Management Portal and finding its simplified way to identify and troubleshoot issues that occur across the workspace, and gaining increased visibility of how people are interacting with […]

Simon Townsend joined what is now the Ivanti team when Landesk acquired AppSense last year. But Simon’s been around the IT industry for almost 20 years now. That perspective gives him a refreshing take on one of the industry’s most talked-about developments: the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Due to take effect on 25 […]

The best journeys start with careful planning and specific goals – and leave room for improvisation or even suspending the journey when it makes sense. Migration of your enterprise’s critical applications to the cloud can benefit from a similar approach. Before Migration: Ask (the Right) Questions The cloud, whichever variation you choose, is definitely not […]

July 20, 2017 marked the beginning of my third year at Ivanti (né Landesk). But I’ve been an analyst, journalist, consultant, marketer, observer, cheerleader, and provocateur in IT since leaving MIT in the 1970s. Given that, I hope you’ll forgive me a bit of personal observation, reflection—and cheerleading. Why I’m Excited I was at ServiceNow […]

The dust is far from settled, but as you will have seen (here) we are busy integrating RES Software into the rapidly-expanding Ivanti family. Between the positive press comments (here for example) and social media (for example) we have also been inundated with questions and requests for more information from partners, customers and the wider […]