Switching to a 4 day work week
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
Employees have increasingly voiced the value of their work-life balance throughout the past few years, and with Americans quitting their jobs at staggering rates, it’s becoming increasingly clear that employers will need to listen if they want to retain top talent. According to Gartner, a shortened workweek is the most-wanted recruitment and retention strategy by ...
Ignite incubator program launched from NEM Ventures
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
NEM Ventures has announced the launch of the Ignite virtual incubator program, to provide mentoring and financial support for early-stage blockchain startups. Applications are now open to the first cohort of blockchain projects wishing to gain professional support in preparing for commercialization and fundraising rounds, with support from the NEM ecosystem.
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Virtual desktops will gain popularity in 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Desktops-as-a-service, or virtual cloud desktops, will gain popularity in 2021. These are offerings like Amazon Workspace, Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, Google Chromebook. The offerings enable the entire environment of workstations to be delivered as a service — a display that connects to personal computing in the cloud. It reduces the in-house infrastructure...
Zero Trust platform from Pulse Secure is enhanced
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 by Richard Harris
Pulse Secure announced that it has introduced new Secure Access management and threat mitigation capabilities within its Zero Trust Network Access platform. Through these enhancements, Pulse Secure enables enterprise and service provider organizations to progress Zero Trust security and mitigate hybrid IT risks while simplifying access to multi-cloud and data center res...
VersaStack gets a new VDI and hybrid cloud capabilities
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 by Austin Harris
IBM has announced new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and hybrid cloud capabilities for the VersaStack converged infrastructure solution. VDI can reduce data center costs, streamline troubleshooting, and increase data security for enterprise clients managing hybrid cloud workloads.To address large-scale, high performance VDI workloads and data reduction requirement...
Hazelcast is now available as a tile on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hazelcast, an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), is now available as a Tile on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). Their newest tile for PCF 1.2 is an on-demand service broker that dynamically creates and scales their clusters without pre-provisioning blocks of VMs (virtual machines). The Tile integrates with Cloud Foundry to provide a frictionless user experience, requir...
Shift desktop application to address workarounds for Gmail users
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 by Austin Harris
Canadian software provider Redbrick announced the release of Shift: a new native application for desktop that helps simplify and streamline the navigation of multiple Gmail accounts.With Shift, the company's goal is to address the many workarounds that Gmail users commonly resort to when managing their various accounts, such as running multiple browsers simultaneously, ...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: The way forward in government mobility
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Edris Amiryar
Advances in technology are rapid and can be hard to keep up with, especially for large organizations. The federal government relies heavily on IT to accomplish its tasks and there is increasing demand for access to information from any location, in any geography, meaning that for federal agencies, improved mobility and mobile data security are imperative for m...
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 7 adds predictive analytics and recommendations
Saturday, November 5, 2016 by Austin Harris
SolarWinds has announced SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 7. With this latest release, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager goes to the forefront of virtualization management by offering the capability to analyze and act on historical trends, respond to active issues and prevent future problems through predictive analytics from a single console. No other tool provides the...
Private Cloud Services From Breakthrough Technology Group Goes HyperConverged
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Breakthrough Technology Group (BTG) has confirmed the evolution of its Private Cloud Services to hyperconverged architecture. Based on software-defined storage and software-defined data center, BTG Adaptable Cloud Services provide dedicated, segregated infrastructure and single tenancy in a private cloud. Hosted in its BTG's SSAE 16 certified data centers, Adaptable Clo...
Hybrid Cloud Strategy New With VMware CrossCloud Architecture
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has announced a new aspect of its hybrid cloud strategy with the new VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture which provides the ability to run, manage, connect, and secure applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment.In support of the company's cloud strategy, VMware also announced the following:- VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified...
LinuxCon Conference Delves Deep into Open Source, Containers and Virtualization
Thursday, July 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Linux Foundation is again hosting its annual LinuxCon conference which will be held on August 22 – 24 in Toronto, Canada offering the opportunity for developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent to gather together at one event for education, collaboration and problem-solving for the Linux platform.The event offers more than 100 ses...
Secure Mobile Access for BYOD
Friday, March 4, 2016 by Paul Andersen
If you are an IT manager responsible for defining your organization’s approach to BYOD, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and guides available on the topic. Unfortunately, most BYOD articles overlook a technology that has been the workhorse for secure remote access for more than a decade: SSL VPN.Originally designed for secure remote PC and laptop access...
VMware Updates Its Virtual SAN HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) Software
Monday, February 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
VMware Updates Its Virtual SAN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) SoftwareVMware has released the next edition of its VMware Virtual SAN hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software. The solution consists of VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCenter Server which transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into HCI systems.VMware Virtual SAN is designed to be a s...
Agile Innovation: Crossing the Wetware Chasm for Business Transformation
Friday, June 12, 2015 by Alex Robbio
“ The modern era’s less rigid development methodologies - Behavior Driven Development, Scrum and Kanban complemented by “Hackathon” team-blending campaigns - are proven to accelerate agile innovation, trusted collaboration and business transformation.”Modern-era IT jargon has coined the term “wetware” to describe the collective human capital - the programmers, developer...
Control Your Windows Desktop with dinCloud’s WebHVD Android App
Friday, December 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
dinCloud just released its HTML5-based hosted virtual desktop solution called WebHVD. WebHVD will also be available on Android devices, downloadable for free at the Google Play store. dinCloud is a cloud service provider.WebHVD by dinCloud allows for users to access not only its Windows Desktop Service but now offers access to the Android Platform. Google Pla...
VMware Workspace Suite Offers New Integrated Development Platform
Friday, August 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
VMware has launched VMware Workspace Suite, a new integrated platform for managing applications, data and devices. VMware Workspace Suite offers a single, integrated portal to access AirWatch by VMware mobile and content management solutions, and VMware Horizon. For end-users, the result is a unified experience across mobile and desktop devices, while IT gains a co...
