End User Computing

Piecemeal approach won’t work – Federal government mobile computing planning provides a good example of what will.

So you’re going to fix all your company’s virtualization woes with your new architecture. You’re going to be the IT hero. The parts for the new solution show up on your loading dock and you start putting the pieces together, only to find out that the NIC cards you ordered don’t support a required protocol. Or worse yet, the expensive network gear you already ordered is missing a critical feature your users depend on. You persevere, scaling back your design, and exchanging components. It never seems to be an even exchange, but at least you are still within budget.

The OFS Market is moving at a lightening fast pace with seemingly new entrants and new features added every week. Dropbox’s latest announcements around its business updates are an example of the ongoing feature enhancements that are released so quickly that I can barely keep up!

Hackers are rattling an assortment of web application windows and doors to find a way in.

While mobile first design points at a progress, it can also drive business application design in the wrong direction.

ONS is a high-stakes SDN technology market development conference attended by both executives and architects from a range of large and small technology suppliers, service providers, and investors, with a sprinkling of enterprises and media/analysts from across the globe.

This video captures the state of server virtualization and the impact it is having in adjacent IT initiatives. I also step through desktop virtualization, network virtualization, and storage virtualization and the potential economic impact these strategies have on the business.

Mobile computing presents an opportunity to get things right if CISOs approach it with the right strategy.

Virtualizing Tier-1 Application Workloads with Confidence

This ESG Lab report documents the results of independent, hands-on testing of Exchange Server 2013 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with improved Hyper-V virtualization. Testing was focused on the performance scalability of Exchange Server 2013 in a Hyper-V virtualized environment, as well as the ease of deployment and manageability.

It’s challenging to absorb everything Microsoft at the cadence they would like IT pros to keep pace with, but here are four areas to pay close attention to: Cloud OS, Azure, storage, and Configuration Manager. Microsoft Management Summit was an excellent event for those who attended, now Microsoft needs to crank up the volume for the world to hear. Too many IT pros keep saying “I didn’t know Microsoft did that!?!?!”

In order to assess the market for web application security testing tools and services, including static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools, processes, policies, and services, ESG surveyed 200 IT and information security professionals working at midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America. 

In-building mobile coverage is often a problem for both mobile operators’ customers and enterprise employees....

The use of corporate file sharing services is growing, but what’s behind this growth? The BYOD trend has been a key driver for the online file sharing market. The preponderance of smartphones and tablets in the workplace has driven many companies to sign up for and deploy a corporate account with an online file sharing (OFS) service.

A Simple, Fast, and Affordable VDI Solution from VMware and Tintri

This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing of VMware Horizon View 5.1 with the Tintri VMstore platform. Testing focused on performance in the context of the end-user experience in a 1,000 seat virtual desktop environment. In addition, the ease of deployment, manageability, and cost-effectiveness of the Tintri solution in VMware environments were also examined.

Oracle Database Appliance blossoms into more than just a database appliance with ODA X3-2

Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tom Hughes and Todd Watson from IBM. We talked about three IT trends that are disrupting traditional data protection strategies and legacy approaches:

Highly Virtualized / Private Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud-based Solutions for backup & storage

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for endpoint protection

Several barriers have delayed IT’s progress in migrating to cloud computing environments. One of the biggest barriers is application migration. This is a major barrier because IT may no longer have all the information needed to migrate applications. Migration might also be a barrier due to the complexity associated with performing a successful migration. Application migration requires detailed knowledge of all the moving parts in an application, its dependencies, and its behavior with regard to usage and workloads. What if a service could automatically solve most of these problems and move an application to the cloud in minutes? Enter AppZero, which solves the challenge of migrating to the cloud.