The Top 6 Reasons to Use Cloud Computing
June 8, 2021
Cloud computing is using the Internet to deliver hardware and software services instead of keeping physical hardware and software at your office. Companies are shifting to cloud computing now more than ever for six main reasons. It is hard to ignore the benefits of the cloud as a viable, essential computing option, but do the […] Read More
Anybody not tearing their rigid IT architecture down right now, they’re dinosaurs
May 4, 2020
James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley, a 60,431-employee Fortune 500 financial services firm, stated on April 16th, “We’ve proven we can operate with no footprint,” in a Bloomberg TV interview. “Can I see a future where part of every week, certainly part of every month, a lot of our employees will be at home? Absolutely.2 […] Read More
Making it Work or Making it Up: How Work-from-Home is Working in the Real World
April 27, 2020
Interviews with real people about the talent and technologies they have had to master in five areas to make work-at-home work for their business. Mary is a CFO at a Wisconsin credit union; 120 years strong, with 28,000 members in two states, $350 million in assets, and over 120 employees. Though the financial institution’s longevity, […] Read More
Bending IT with the Business: 8 Ways to Introduce IT Flexibility
April 24, 2020
In general, the more flexible the IT infrastructure is, the more successful organizations are at surviving and thriving when new ways of working, like mandated work-from-home, are introduced. Adapt or die the phrase goes. New problems create opportunities for new solutions. Having flexibility in IT infrastructure in real terms means organizations have a wider range […] Read More
Ransomware: What It Is And How To Fight It
October 16, 2016
Ransomware is a dirty, dirty word. It’s the latest cyber crime to sweep the globe and it cost business and industry more than $325M in 2015, according to a report by the Cyber Threat Alliance. Bored with simply stealing credit card numbers, inventive criminals have turned to infecting computing environments with malware — delivered via […] Read More
Why the 10 Largest Healthcare Systems Rely on Citrix Everyday
October 15, 2016
Beyond being the 10 largest healthcare systems in the United States, collectively representing almost 17% of all of the hospital beds in the United States (150,892 of the 902,202 hospital beds, I checked), what do HCA, CHS, Tenet Healthcare, Ascension Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, Trinity Health, Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation, LifePoint Health, Dignity Health, and […] Read More
What is VDI? Why Does This Technology Exist? In plain English.
October 8, 2016
What IS a virtual desktop? What is VDI? Why does this technology exist? Why do companies buy this stuff? What problems does VDI solve? What is in it for the End User? I have heard and answered these questions and many more related to virtual desktops for a very long time, so I though a […] Read More
Building Blocks of a Better IT End User Experience
June 9, 2016
Five years ago very few people were talking about the End User Experience we in IT were delivering to our end users. Today there are a number of companies (Aternity, eG Innovations, ControlUp, Lakeside, Goliath, etc. to name a few) continuing to refine their products that give us more and more visibility into what our […] Read More
Is Your IT Staff Working Against You?
May 31, 2016
To be honest, this is a difficult topic, but it is so common we have to talk about it. Several hundred thousand companies have bought Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View or any number of other technologies based on the promised features, capabilities, cost savings and productivity enhancements the new software promises to bring. Unfortunately […] Read MoreEnd of content
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