If you’re an avid reader of our blog, you may have noticed our recent focus on OpenStack and its potential for hosted desktop environments.  Missed our recent posts? Fear not! You’ve come to the right place as this blog summarizes what was covered in order to catch you up to speed on anything and everything...Read More

Not only is the workforce getting more mobile, they’re getting more demanding. It’s not enough to allow users to work from where ever they want by giving them a laptop, they want to work from whatever device they want, too. What’s an IT department to do? How do you make corporate resources available anywhere, from...Read More

———– Let’s say you’re an MSP and you want to add desktops to the list of hosted services you already provide. How do you design your data center so you can easily offer and manage all of these services side-by-side? Simple, use OpenStack in your software defined data centers! What advantages do managed service providers...Read More

Mastering the potential of the public or a private cloud is probably a hot topic around your IT department’s water cooler. And, where there are conversations about cloud, there are often conversations about OpenStack.Read More

This blog is part of a series based on our recent eBook on how a connection broker simplifies hosted desktop environments. You can download a copy of the entire eBook here. When most people think about a connection broker, they think about VDI. The different virtualization vendors all provide a built-in connection broker that is more...Read More

Are you interested in learning about making OpenStack VDI and DaaS a reality? Watch our webinar for all the details. ————————————————– Of all the well-known names in virtual desktops, two consistently take the cake: VMware and Citrix. Other big players like Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat have been scratching at their heels for years, but...Read More

This blog is part of a series based on our recent eBook on how a connection broker simplifies hosted desktop environments. You can download a copy of the entire eBook here. When moving resources into the data center, whether you are looking to host physical systems or build a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), you have a...Read More

In building out a virtual or hosted desktop environment a key part of the equation is how you’re going to pull everything together. Many vendors offer a connection broker as part of a larger VDI management solution. In this scenario, the question becomes why would you ever look elsewhere?Read More

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have been around the block, but no matter how many times someone exclaimed, “This is the year of VDI!” that year never came. VDI never went away, either. For some users and certain use cases, VDI remains a viable option for moving workloads into the data center. That’s particularly true for...Read More

I am sitting at my laptop on yet another cold, snowy New England day, conveniently working from home while the plows systematically clear (yet again) the roads. Not so conveniently, I am installing anti-virus software to scan my system for a potential threat I may have just downloaded. If only I had used my hosted...Read More