White Papers News & Support Resources

June 30, 2014

While VDI offers an array of undisputed benefits such as security, flexibility and mobility, the decision to move forward with VDI usually comes down to one factor – COST. Review “Building a Case for VDI” a white paper by TechTarget to effectively articulate the costs associated with the different forms of desktop deployment and build […]

Enabling Hybrid Cloud Today with Microsoft Technologies

June 27, 2014

Microsoft

With the ambient credo to “do more with less, with a better agility and time to market”, IT inevitably becomes a service provider for its enterprise and need to run like a business. The undertaking also requires a step further in the way the IT delivers its services to its customers: internal businesses and beyond. […]

Achieve Unified Management and Scale-Out of Multi-Site File-Serving Deployments Using Windows Server 2012 R2 and Sanbolic

June 27, 2014

Citrix Systems

One of the most popular workloads found in today’s global enterprise environments is file-serving. Knowledge and task workers alike require constant access to business-critical files 24/7 and often need to update files repeatedly throughout the workday to ensure the most recent information is available to colleagues and co-workers. What was once an application confined within the four walls of […]

Applications

Consumerization of IT

Consumerization of IT

IDC Technology Spotlight: Application Readiness in Today’s Heterogeneous IT Environments

June 19, 2014

Flexera Software

Disruptive trends such as the consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility, and virtualization are driving increasingly heterogeneous and hybrid IT environments that, in turn, are adding significant complexity to the distribution and management of applications within the enterprise. As the IT environment continues to grow more complex and business users expectations on application and IT service […]

Free Study Guide for Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

May 20, 2014

Veeam

This study guide for Microsoft’s 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center exam will take you through each of the exam objectives, helping you to prepare for and pass the examination. By reading these 8 chapters of the study guide you will learn about: Virtual Machine Settings Virtual machine storage Hyper-V Virtual […]

VMware vSphere Backups: What are you Missing?

May 20, 2014

Veeam

This white paper explains the vSphere backup process and highlights what may be missing in your environment. Follow these four steps to help ensure a successful vSphere backup: Separate the roles in the data protection VM Orchestrate the virtual platform components Orchestrate the activities inside the VM with Volume Shadow Copy Service Begin backup Read […]

VMware vSphere 5.5 Top New Features and Upgrade Tips

May 19, 2014

Veeam

Veeam Backup & Replication v7: A VMware Architect’s Favorite Features

May 19, 2014

Veeam

Download ‘Veeam Backup & Replication v7: A VMware Architect’s Favorite Features’ and learn about many of the additions to the Veeam Backup & Replication family. This whitepaper compares how we did things in v6.5 and how we do them in v7 to give you, the backup administrator, a deep technical understanding of the product to […]

Do the right thing – Assess Your Desktops before Virtualizing Them

May 13, 2014

Flexera Software

Understanding Your Desktop Before Your Virtualization Migration Project Begins When it comes to desktop virtualization migrations, many people initially take to the ready-fire-aim approach to determining which applications are users are good candidates. It’s more fun this way because it represents a unique challenge at every turn, but it’s not the ideal way of setting […]

Workload Rightsizing

April 28, 2014

Turbonomic

Automatically and Continuously Optimizing Workload Configurations in Your Virtual Environment It’s so simple to add resources to a virtual machine to thwart performance issues that it’s easy to end up over-provisioning in the virtual data center. Similarly, with initiatives to increase virtual machine density and gain greater efficiency of virtualized infrastructure, it’s just as simple […]

Software License Audits and Costs & Risks to Enterprises – DC Research Survey Report

April 28, 2014

Flexera Software

White Paper: Flexera Software and IDC Research Survey Report This research report, conducted by Flexera Software and IDC looks at software license audits and the costs and risks to enterprises. The results in this report should serve as a wakeup call to IT management that painful software audit true up bills will continue until best […]

Extreme VDI Scalability with the Sanbolic Platform and IBM FlashSystem

April 17, 2014

Citrix Systems

The Citrix Ready VDI Capacity program is designed specifically to address the storage needs of customers who already have or are thinking about implementing VDI using XenDesktop. Combining innovative talents and advanced storage technologies, Sanbolic, a Citrix-Ready partner renowned for helping organizations realize the economic benefits of software-defined storage, and IBM, a Citrix strategic alliance […]

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Healthcare

April 16, 2014

Nutanix

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) continues to build momentum as a potentially transformative technology in terms of increasing IT efficiency. VDI can be particularly beneficial for the health care industry by better enabling health care institutions to meet the requirements for quality, speed and privacy in regard to patient care and data. Download this whitepaper to […]

Consumerization of IT

Data Center

Desktop

How to Install Citrix DesktopPlayer for the Mac and Citrix XenClient Enterprise Synchronizer

April 16, 2014

DABCC

Step-By-Step – Citrix DesktopPlayer for the Mac and Citrix XenClient Enterprise Synchronizer, with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V – Soup-to-Nuts! The Free 350 page soup-to-nuts ‘How To: BYOD Project Volume 1’ e-book will teach you: How to install and configure Citrix DesktopPlayer for Mac 1.1, soup-to-nuts… How to install and configure Citrix XenClient Enterprise […]