Category Archives: Virtualization

Work from anywhere unlocks once-hidden productivity and creativity talent gems

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Dana Gardner

Learn how distributed work models fuel innovation and translate into increased employee benefits Continue reading →

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The future of work is happening now thanks to Digital Workplace Services

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Dana Gardner

Learn how a sea change in work habits can come with a boon to both workers and businesses. Continue reading →

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How REI used automation to cloudify infrastructure and rapidly adjust its digital pandemic response

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Dana Gardner

Learn what works for making IT agile and responsive enough to re-factor a private cloud at breakneck speed. Continue reading →

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As containers go mainstream, IT culture should pivot to end-to-end DevSecOps

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Dana Gardner

Container-based deployment models have rapidly gained popularity from cloud models to corporate data centers. IT operators are now looking to extend the benefits of containers to more use cases, including the computing edge. Yet in order to push containers further into the mainstream, security … Continue reading →

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How containers are the new basic currency for pay as you go hybrid IT

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Dana Gardner

Container-based deployment models have rapidly gained popularity across a full spectrum of hybrid IT architectures — from edge, to cloud, to data center. This next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series examines how IT operators are now looking to increased automation, … Continue reading →

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For a UK borough, solving security issues leads to operational improvements and cost-savings across its IT infrastructure

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dana Gardner

The next BriefingsDirect enterprise IT productivity discussion focuses on solving tactical challenges around security to unlock strategic operational benefits in the public sector. For a large metropolitan borough council in South Yorkshire, England, an initial move to thwarting recurring ransomware attacks ended … Continue reading →

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How IT can fix the broken employee experience

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Dana Gardner

Learn how IT can elevate the game by delivering simpler, more intelligent experiences that enable people to work consistently at their informed best. Continue reading →

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Happy employees equal happy customers — and fans. Can IT deliver for them all?

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Dana Gardner

A discussion on how new breeds of intelligent digital workspace technologies can deliver a superior employee — and ultimately customer — experience that boosts engagement, productivity, and business results. Continue reading →

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CEO Henshall on Citrix’s 30-year journey to make workers productive, IT stronger, and partners more capable

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Dana Gardner

Learn how Citrix is charting a new future of work that abstracts productivity above apps, platforms, data, and even clouds to empower, energize, and enlighten disaffected workers while simplifying and securing anywhere work across any deployment model. Continue reading →

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How HCI forms a simple foundation for hybrid cloud, edge, and composable infrastructure

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Dana Gardner

A discussion on how IT operators are seeking increased automation, built-in intelligence, and robust security as they look for turnkey hyperconverged appliance approaches for both cloud and traditional workloads. Continue reading →

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Data-driven and intelligent healthcare processes improve patient outcomes while making the IT increasingly invisible

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Dana Gardner

A discussion on how healthcare providers employ new breeds of intelligent digital workspace technologies to improve doctor and patient experiences, make technology easier to use, and assist in bringing actionable knowledge resources to the integrated healthcare environment. Continue reading →

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Inside story: How HP Inc. moved from a rigid legacy to data center transformation

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Dana Gardner

A discussion on how a massive corporate split led to the re-architecting and modernizing of IT to allow for the right data center choices at the right price over time. Continue reading →

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Regional dental firm Great Expressions protects distributed data with lower complexity thanks to amalgam of Nutanix HCI and Bitdefender security

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Dana Gardner

Modern dentistry depends on more than good care. It also demands rapid access to data and applications. For a rapidly growing dental services company — consisting of hundreds of dental offices spread across 10 US states — the task of … Continue reading →

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HPE and Citrix team up to make hybrid cloud-enabled workspaces simpler to deploy

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Dana Gardner

As businesses of every stripe seek to bring more virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to their end users, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is proving a deployment back-end architecture of choice. Indeed, HCI and VDI are combining to make one of the more traditionally challenging workloads far … Continue reading →

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