Imagine this: it’s the beginning of the year, and as an IT manager or entrepreneur, you’re reviewing your fixed costs. Among the subscriptions, a list of domain names catches your eye. One belongs to a company you acquired years ago. One is for an old product name. One is from before the last rebranding. No […]
Your employees work from home, on the go, or from a flexible workspace. That’s great. But where is their data right now? On a laptop they manage themselves. On a device that may not have been updated in a year. In an environment over which you, as an organization, have little control. That is a […]
Something you used to have to pay for to take advantage of and make your life easier in terms of Windows Updates is now completely free starting in May. Microsoft has made Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 available at no additional cost, via Azure Arc for anyone running on-premises or hybrid. No separate billing lines. […]
What this means for AVD, Citrix and FSLogix, and how to address it You’ve set up your VDI environment tightly. Your FSLogix profiles are on an Azure Files or on-premises share, and every gigabyte counts. And then Google Chrome decides to write an AI model of nearly 4 GB to each user’s profile in the […]
You have a virtual workplace environment. Multiple servers or desktops, a number of images, hundreds of users. And every time something needs to be changed, the same ritual begins: log into one machine, make the change, hope you don’t forget it on the other machines, and weeks later discover that the production environment differs from […]
You pay monthly for IT you don’t use. And you know it. Every employee has a workplace. But not every employee does the same work. The account manager who makes the occasional quote has different needs than the designer who spends all day in heavy software. Yet most organizations pay the same for both: a […]
VMware has gotten more expensive. Quite expensive. After Broadcom took over, licensing costs went up VMware got more expensive. Quite expensive. After Broadcom took over, licensing costs went up and familiar partnership structures disappeared. Since then, many organizations have been looking around: what are the alternatives? Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox…. and XenServer. The latter is underestimated […]
Your Citrix environment is running. Users are working. And then a new release appears. The question IT managers and administrators always ask themselves is the same: What’s in it and what does it mean for my environment? CVAD 2603 is not a minor maintenance release. It’s a release that makes improvements on multiple fronts at […]
You know the drill. The CISO announces a new security measure. Multi-factor authentication is tightened, a VPN update rolls out, or there will be an extra step when logging in. And within a day, ten tickets are open at the help desk. Employees complain that it doesn’t work, is too slow, or just too complicated. […]
Have you ever calculated what that “slow laptop” is really costing your team? Probably not. And that’s exactly the problem. Because in most organizations it sounds like, ‘Oh well, it’s still working, it’s just a little slow to start up.’ Or, ‘I have to wait for that application to load, so I’ll just grab some […]
