Managed Services And And Hosting Providers News & Support Resources

August 17, 2017

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) – whether Internet, carriers, cableco, satellite, or managed service – are playing a critical role in the next era of growth and innovation. They are enabling the next generation of user/customer/digital experiences that are in such great demand. However, they are now challenged to move beyond their core connectivity business and […]

What Multi-Cloud Means for Managed Services

August 16, 2017

ClearSky Data

Multi-cloud environments have quickly become the new normal, and hybrid cloud is now an inevitability for many enterprises. RightScale reports that cloud users are running their applications in an average of 1.8 public clouds and 2.3 private ones. It’s not hard to see why; the market has evolved to offer robust cloud offerings, including object […]

Cisco and IBM collaborate to increase security effectiveness

August 16, 2017

Cisco

On May 30, 2017, Cisco and IBM Security announced a key relationship to address the rising tide of security threats and the need to respond rapidly. Cisco and IBM Security will work together to offer specific product integrations, a managed security service provider (MSSP) roadmap, and threat intelligence collaboration programs. The relationship focuses on making […]

Hybrid IT Workload Placement Guide

August 15, 2017

HP Enterprise

Earlier this year, I talked about the benefits of hybrid IT and service providers in this video and what organizations need to do to find the right mix of traditional IT, private, managed or public cloud to optimize their IT investment and deliver the services to meet the business demands. After I posted this video, I received many […]

VMware: Tailored to industry: A sector-based approach

August 11, 2017

VMware

Customers are living in a multi-cloud world; they’re relying on different types of cloud technologies, as well as their own dedicated servers to ensure they adapt to the growing demands of their business. Our agenda is very much client driven. We adapt our solution development to the reactions we get from customers. Each customer has […]

Cisco: 5 SD-WAN Operational Challenges for Service Providers to Consider

August 11, 2017

Cisco

Cloud and associated networking technologies such as Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) offer significant benefits in terms of business agility and cost reduction of total cost of ownership. SD-WAN, or software-defined networking in a wide area network, is one of the latest technologies driving real transformation in enterprise WAN architectures. SD-WAN […]

Zero to Hero! VDI on HCI, in 45 Days or Less!

August 11, 2017

Workspot

What’s possible with next-generation VDI 2.0? When the customer says “I need you to build a new datacenter from scratch and have virtual desktops and apps up and running in 45 days” what do you do? How is that even possible? If you’re GlobeNet, a managed service provider and Workspot partner out of New Orleans, you […]

Citrix Technology Exchange 2017 Recap Video

August 8, 2017

Citrix Systems

Citrix is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud. This year […]

‘Microsoft Encryption of Data-at-Rest’ White Paper

August 7, 2017

Microsoft

There are essentially 3 types of encryption you want to think about when working with a cloud service provider: Encryption in Flight (network encryption) Encryption in processing (application data encryption) Encryption at rest is about protecting data on disk. You need to make sure that an attacker who might to acquire a hard drive (spinning […]

Citrix: Citrix Reports Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results (NASDAQ:CTXS)

August 3, 2017

Citrix Systems

Citrix Reports Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results Quarterly revenue of $693 million up 3% year-over-year Quarterly GAAP diluted EPS of $0.70; non-GAAP diluted EPS of $1.03 on a continuing operations basis Deferred revenue of $1.7 billion up 13 percent year-over-year Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2017 ended June 30, 2017. Financial Results For the second […]

What’s New in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0

August 3, 2017

Veeam

This is the beginning of a series of blogs that will give you an in-depth how-to of the many new capabilities that are available in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0. If this is the first time you are hearing about our new product, I recommend you first review the following announcement blog post where […]

Citrix Cloud to be Made Available to Citrix Service Providers

August 2, 2017

Citrix Systems

We are thrilled to announce that Citrix Cloud will be made available to our Citrix Service Provider (CSP) community! CSPs will soon be able to take advantage of the numerous benefits that Citrix Cloud has to offer. We anticipate that Citrix Cloud will be made Generally Available (GA) to CSPs in the next few weeks. Please […]

Creating Azure ARM template with Veeam Agent unattended setup

August 1, 2017

IT Blog by Marius Sandbu

One of the things that you need to remember to have when moving to the public cloud is to do backup of your stateful virtual machines since this is not something that is included as part of the basic service that cloud platforms provide (Azure, Google and Amazon) for instance. NB: Azure has an Backup […]

Microsoft: Build apps faster with Azure Serverless

August 1, 2017

Microsoft

Azure’s Serverless offerings allow developers to build and deploy elastic-scale applications faster than ever. Serverless technology allows developers to focus on their apps rather than provisioning, managing, and scaling the underlying infrastructure. Azure provides unique serverless tools to accelerate development by seamlessly tapping into the benefits of the cloud. See a quick overview here: Traditionally, […]