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The Business Case for Server Refresh

Best practices for reaping the benefits of virtualization!

Green IT: Good for Business, Good for the Planet

Source: InfoWorld

Environmental legislation and csR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives play important roles in driving companies to embrace green tech products and practices. But so do real business needs. Indeed, organizations are finding that, from the desktop to the datacenter, opportunities abound to save big bucks by reducing electricity and fuel consumption, along with travel, paper usage, and more.

Green IT

Virtualization: The question is when, not if

Source: InfoWorld

At the risk of stating the obvious, virtualization is the future of IT. Interestingly, It’s also the history of IT as well, when you think of mainframes, OS/400, and so forth. Everything old is new again. But the world of contemporary virtualization has not jelled yet. Multiple vendors offer various products, each with their pros and cons and price tags – all the way from completely free to tens of thousands of dollars in licensing costs.

Virtualization

Strategies for Endpoint Security

Source: InfoWorld

Who would have thought that after 20-plus years of solid research and industry remedies that malware would still be a common malady on today’s PCs? This is not to say that the problem of computer viruses and trojans hasn’t changed…it has significantly. But today’s Internet-connected, application-integrated, global world makes it far easier for malware to sneak onto our computers to do bad things. Download this original InfoWorld report, "Strategies for Endpoint Security".

Endpoint security

Desktop Virtualization

Source: InfoWorld

Every few years another technology springs forth to solve the desktop dilemma. Citrix Presentation Server, Windows Terminal Server, ClearCube, and others were all attempts to deliver a full desktop experience to the end user without the actual desktop. In some respects they succeeded, but they didn’t penetrate the market and IT mindshare on a global scale. Read this original InfoWorld report on Desktop Virtualization.

Desktop virtualization

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