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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 MoreWhitehat Virtual Security Bulletin – September 2016
Whitehat Virtual Security Bulletin – September 2016 Read MoreWhy 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 MoreWhat 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 More5 Second Citrix Logins – Killing the Myth that Citrix is (always) Slow
September 17, 2016
One of the top complaints we hear from prospective customers is “Citrix is slow”. Read MoreBuilding 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 MoreSAML/Single Sign on with Citrix
June 2, 2016
Two of enterprise businesses’ biggest headaches are addressed by a single solution: Security Assertion Markup Language or SAML. Read MoreIs 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 MoreMicrosoft Licensing Demystified
We recently posted a guide to Citrix licensing, which has confounded users since the beginning of time. We also are asked frequently about Microsoft licensing and how it folds into the Citrix environment. Read MoreEnd of content
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