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Enterprise Desktop Virtualization webcast: Leveraging the cloud w/ Dell Wyse (October 24)

Michael Tidmarsh — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:14:38 +0000

Register for a live webcast on October 24 at 12:30 p.m. (ET), sponsored by Dell Wyse, to discover all the desktop virtualization options available to you and how your business can best utilize them.

Transitioning to a live VDI environment can be a difficult task. Many deployment initiatives never make it past the piloting phase because of a lack of proper planning and realistic expectations. Watch this live, interactive webcast to learn all the desktop virtualization options available to your organization and how you can best utilize them.

Live solution webinar: Virtual desktops simplified w/ Dell and Citrix (October 23)

Michael Tidmarsh — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:39:11 +0000

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Join us on October 23rd at 12:30 p.m. (ET) for a live webinar, sponsored by Dell and Citrix, to explore ways that you can implement desktop virtualization easily and without breaking your organization’s budget.

Learn how you can realize the benefits of desktop virtualization with an affordable, all-in-one solution. Virtual desktops increase data security, efficiency and reduce desktop management costs, but the upfront investment can be high. Until now.

Join Citrix and Dell to explore the technologies, use-cases and best practices that make desktop virtualization ridiculously easy, while delivering a quick return on investment (ROI).

You will learn how to:

Radically simplify desktop virtualization – deploying VDI is as easy as 1-2-3
Deliver the mobility and flexibility end-users crave – with minimal costs
Scale by simply adding more capacity – with nothing to re-architect or reconfigure

We hope you can make it!

IT Blog Top 10: How HP got hurt

Ben Rubenstein — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:35:57 +0000

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Industry battles took center stage on ITKE blogs this week. Check out who’s feeling the heat:

1. Mark Fontecchio shows just how much HP was affected by Oracle’s lack of Itanium support. Warning to financial folks: It gets graphic.

2. Fusion-io announced its ION Data Accelerator software last week, and Dave Raffo thinks it puts the company in direct competition with EMC and its “Project Thunder” storage appliance. Sounds like a storage storm’s a-comin’.

3. Bradley Wiggins and Andy Murray aren’t the only Brits who deserve a gold medal; London Olympics CIO Gerry Pennell should get something for his inventive use of green IT technologies at the games, writes Miki Onwudinjo.

4. Lists are always problematic (and we should know). So Ed Tittel’s probably not the only one who has quibbles with Global Knowledge’s recent ranking of the 11 skills every IT pro should have.

5. Ron Miller knows that Apple’s iCloud needs work. We’re guessing that Mat Honan agrees.

6. Heather Clancy describes how Dell welcomed partners to its cloud services program, which is nice.

7. Is OAuth 2.0 on “the road to Hell”? Protocol author Eran Hammer thinks so, and Adam Riglian details his response at last week’s Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Vancouver.

8. Todd Morrison tells us why HANA users drink less coffee.

9. Craigslist used to be the cool kid on the internet block. Now, it’s more like the angry old shut-in yelling at kids to get off its lawn — and that could have dire consequences for cloud and mobile app developers, writes Adam Riglian.

10. Banking is getting less buttoned-up, writes Jack Vaughan. It starts with Enterprise Service Buses.

8 reasons why Desktop Virtualization projects fail & best practices (sponsored webcast)

ITKE — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:40:56 +0000

Many companies have tried to pilot desktop virtualization and are finding that it is not the same as server virtualization. Pilots are not taking off and moving to production. While there are many reasons for this, we have identified 8 key reasons why these projects fail. Join this webcast with Gabe Knuth from BrianMadden.com, Travis Brown from Dell and Rich Nockels from Intel to learn:

8 key reasons for desktop virtualization project failures
Critical need to segment users before you proceed with the pilot
What you need to do after you identify user needs
Elements to watch out for
Best practices in desktop virtualization services

The webcast will take place October 4 at 1:30 PM EDT. Get more information and sign-up details.

Part 2: Dell’s own story of Windows 7 migration (sponsored webcast)

ITKE — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:12:24 +0000

With its faster performance, enhanced manageability, and improved security and compliance features, Windows® 7 is the new “must have” platform for enterprises. But making a successful move to Windows® 7 requires careful planning. Join us for an in-depth look at the issues global technology provider Dell faced when rolling out Windows® 7 in its own environment. Dell examined all the same questions organizations like yours would need to consider, including assessing whether to continue using current hardware and software, how a large OS rollout would affect the network, how to migrate user settings and data, and whether to put email or other data in the cloud.

This Wednesday, on September 28 at 1:30 PM EDT, join Dell IT and infrastructure experts for an interactive webinar to learn how Dell reduced complexity and accelerated its Windows® 7 deployment schedule-and how your organization can too.

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Dell Windows 7 Webcasts: Inventory, Rationalization & Application Compatibility (sponsored)

ITKE — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:02:08 +0000

Conducting an application inventory is a key step in determining budget requirements and effort needed in managing an application portfolio. Application rationalization, which involves deciding to retain, retire or upgrade each application, should closely follow the inventory in order to reduce migration time and costs.

This webcast will teach you how to analyze data to identify likely targets for rationalization, including non-business applications, multiple versions of the same application, and applications with redundant functionality. Through this analysis, you’ll be able to produce an interpreted list of applications with prioritization for Windows® 7 migration and testing. By rationalizing the master list of applications, subsequent phases (including Windows® 7 testing, licensing, and support) of application management become more attainable.

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