Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI) News & Support Resources

Lakeside Software: Reach Peak Productivity with Proactive Monitoring

February 19, 2018

Lakeside Software

5 Best Practices for Proactive Monitoring Becoming proactive within the enterprise can be a challenging mountain to climb. As a past level 1 help desk employee, I can safely say that I wish proactive monitoring was something we took more seriously.Independent of the obvious benefits of a proactive approach to digital experience monitoring, if done properly, it can bring about numerous benefits to the support […]

FUSION 17 Recap | What ITSM Can Learn From Workspace Analytics

November 7, 2017

Lakeside Software

As one of a handful of vendors not selling ITSM software, we weren’t sure what to expect from last week’s FUSION 17 Conference & Expo hosted by itSMF USA and HDI in Orlando. What we found was a community of Service Managers hungry to escape the break-fix trap for a self-healing help desk. For many […]

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft: Using Microsoft R Server Operationalization on HDInsight

August 8, 2017

R Server on HDInsight cluster allows R scripts to use Spark and MapReduce to run distributed computations. You can develop a model and operationalize the model to make predictions by configuring Edge Node as One-Box. We have One-Click Deploy ARM Templates using which you can create R Server on HDInsight Cluster with EdgeNode configured as […]

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft: Online training for Azure Data Lake

August 7, 2017

We are pleased to announce the availability of new, free online training for Azure Data Lake. We’ve designed this training to get developers ramped up fast. It covers all the topics a developer needs to know to start being productive with big data and how to address the challenges of authoring, debugging, and optimizing at […]

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IT Insights from Ivanti SVP Kevin J. Smith, Recently Published Author

June 12, 2017

Check out this quick interview we conducted with Kevin J Smith, Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Ivanti and author of the new book The Practical Guide to World-Class IT Service Management, available on Amazon. As a product expert with Ivanti, your travels frequently take you to conferences and expos, meetings / presentations with […]

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Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Increase the Value of IT at Your Business

May 15, 2017

If you are attending our Interchange user conference in Las Vegas, congratulations. You’re surrounded by some of the smartest users, the best partners, and coolest solutions in the IT industry. (Not that I’m biased or anything…) And if you are not at Interchange, not to worry. We’ve got a global tour of one-day events coming […]

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Announces Preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1

March 3, 2017

Today, we are pleased to announce a preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6. We are enabling this preview to get feedback on Apache Spark 2.1. You can try out all the features available in the open source release of Apache Spark 2.1, along with the rich experience of using notebooks on Azure HDInsight. This post is […]

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Supporting Citrix HDX and HDX 3D Pro with AMD APUs for Moonshot

November 6, 2014

Citrix XenDesktop with HDX Standard and HDX 3D Pro Virtual Desktop Agents (VDA) Deliver an exceptional user experience including high quality multimedia and graphics While most user graphics and application needs will be well handled with HDX Standard, HDX 3D Pro is ideal for supporting higher end application needs such as those that utilize OpenGL, […]

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Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI) 101

October 3, 2014

Back in 2007, I embarked on a research project for AMD to better understand how hosted computing was going to impact the enterprise. Hosted computing was everything from Microsoft Terminal Services to Citrix MetaFrame to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies that were emerging. The conclusion we came to during this research was that the biggest barrier […]

HDI vs. VDI Panel at HP Discover with DABCC’s Douglas Brown, and Virtual Desktop Industry Experts

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Cloud Computing

HDI vs. VDI Panel at HP Discover with DABCC’s Douglas Brown, and Virtual Desktop Industry Experts

July 11, 2014

DABCC’s Douglas Brown hosted a panel discussion at HP Discover 2014 on Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI). The panel includes three desktop virtualization guru’s DaneYoung (http://twitter.com/youngtech), Jaymes Davis (http://twitter.com/CloudProphet), and Thad Morrow from Entisys Solutions and SkyCanvas.com. The panel talks what is HDI, HDI vs. VDI, Citrix XenDesktop on HP Moonshot CS100, what is HP Moonshot, […]

HP Updates Moonshot HDI, 6x Graphics Compared to VDI, 35% Faster CPU

June 14, 2014

Powered by HP Moonshot ProLiant m700, HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops, clients can deliver the business graphics and multimedia performance of a traditional desktop PC with 6 times faster graphics frames per second, compared to other virtual desktop infrastructure solutions. System is available now, in configurations starting from US$140,000. Compared to traditional PC desktops, […]

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Citrix XenDesktop Remote PC Access, HDX 3D Pro, and League of Legends!

March 3, 2014

In the last several years there has been such a focus on getting to that lofty end-state of hosted desktop virtualization from the data center, that many forget to stop and think about how they can obtain real business value today! Case and point is the long forgotten option in the Flexcast model called Remote […]

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Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 HDX 3D Pro on HP’s Moonshot ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI)

January 2, 2014

There’s been a lot of coverage of HP’s recently announced Moonshot based ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI) solution. Wow, I know, that’s a lot of acronyms. If you haven’t heard much about this solution, I recommend you check out a couple links, listed below: Effective hosted desktops – HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops […]

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