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Are you an existing Citrix XenApp 6.5 customer? You’re probably concerned about your options for moving forward when XenApp 6.5 hits its End of Life (EOL). If you’re not, I’d like to respectfully suggest that you should be.  Time is ticking and your situation is difficult. Essentially, you have two options for an on-premises deployment: Citrix 7.x […]

In my last blog we talked about the top 3 considerations for addressing Citrix XenApp 6.5 end of life (EOL), which is approaching in June 2018. It’s coming at you fast and it’s really time to get serious about where you go from here. As we talk with prospects and industry analysts about virtual app, […]

What is Microsoft 365? Back in July Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 – a product suite that bundles Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security/Intune into one turnkey (one of our favorite words) solution. There’s a version for Enterprise and a version for small/medium businesses. Licensing for Microsoft 365 is available as a per user, […]

What’s Next Mother Nature? I don’t mean to be fatalistic, but it seems like we’ve had way more than our share of disasters lately, one right after another. 2017 has been a tough year for so many people and businesses – the terrible hurricanes, the fires in California, the earthquake in Mexico, monsoons and flooding […]

It’s amazing how fast the VDI market is changing and exciting because with these changes customers will finally realize some really great cost reduction and business agility benefits that have thus far been elusive. As the industry transitions to cloud deployments, we believe it will be helpful for IT execs to have a framework for comparing […]

I recently attended the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and amid the head-spinning barrage of presentations and announcements that were made, one slide stood out for me: Why is it my favorite? Because it underscores the common theme we hear from every CIO we visit. On-premises legacy solutions have lost any remaining luster and […]

We don’t do turkey, but our turnkey Desktop as a Service is hot! Happy Thanksgiving! The entire Workspot team is grateful for all our wonderful customers and partners. We are blessed to be truly adding value for our customers every day. So what’s behind this notion of “tool” versus “service” when it comes to VDI? […]

Most organizations have different types of users who have unique computing requirements. A doctor may need a complete Windows 10 desktop to access all the applications and data that contribute to patient care (and she needs access from her personal devices too), whereas a scheduler may only need access to two or three applications.  A […]

Cloud services are here to stay and IT organizations are finding them more and more irresistible. What’s not to love as you begin adopting Salesforce.com, WorkDay, ServiceNow and even more turnkey cloud services to run mission critical operations within your business? You get to shut down legacy application infrastructure in your own data centers, reduce your […]

What does buying an iPhone have to do with Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)? Well, let me tell you a story! Last week I did something that I haven’t done in a long time. I went to an Apple store. The store at the Apple Headquarters on Infinite Drive in Cupertino is close to my office so I […]

In every industry, whether healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and many others, we’re seeing accelerated adoption of cloud computing and Desktop-as a-Service (DaaS). Business decision makers are seeing less and less value in traditional IT skillsets that focus on keeping traditional IT machinery rolling. The reality is that with the rise of the public cloud, it […]

There really is an end user computing revolution happening. We continue to be impressed by the rate at which Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) is gaining ground. Every day we talk to organizations large and small who are ready to simplify datacenter infrastructure, if not eliminate it entirely, and manage their apps and desktops from the cloud.  They […]

In previous blogs we’ve discussed many reasons why customers are looking for alternatives to legacy VDI solutions, those we refer to as VDI 1.0. It comes down to two primary reasons why those outdated solutions don’t work for most organizations: Cost and complexity. As I was thinking about the impact this has had on so […]

What if you could have virtual apps and desktops up and running tomorrow? With zero CapEx? What if you could count on a predictable, flat-rate subscription fee for cloud services – no surprises? And what if you had the flexibility to have some apps and desktops in the cloud and some on-premises, all easily managed […]