Business Agility

Business Agility covers using the technical agility delivered by virtualization and cloud computing to improve business agility, performance and results.

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    Will Client Hypervisors Drive the Next Generation Desktop?

    January 12, 2012
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    Whatever your enterprise desktop issue - VDI is often hailed as the answer. But a remote desktop is not always available anytime, anyplace, anywhere. More importantly, a VDI infrastructure is complex and expensive to deliver. Virtualisation will certainly play a major part in the next generation desktop: but does that next generation desktop have to…

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    Comparing the Different Approaches to Application Performance Management for Virtualized and Cloud based Envionments

    January 11, 2012
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    Comparing the Different Approaches to Application Performance Management for Virtualized and Cloud based Envionments

    If you are going to try to virtualize performance critical applications in 2012, you should arm yourself with a tool that can measure how those applications perform in the eyes of their end users - which is their end-to-end response time. The approach you take should be a function of the mix of applications you…

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    Are we going to see real progress in IT Automation and Service Assurance in 2012?

    January 5, 2012
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    VMware is going to make progress on its automated service assurance vision this year, with initial steps coming in the Q1/2012 version of vCenter Operations and the initial release of vFabric APM. On the third party vendor front, progress is most likely to come by partnerships between vendors who have interesting pieces of the puzzle,…

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    Citrix Release CloudGateway Enterprise v1: Aggregated Cloud Access Nearer than the Horizon?

    January 3, 2012
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    Citrix Release CloudGateway Enterprise v1: Aggregated Cloud Access Nearer than the Horizon?

    CloudGateway is a unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers all apps and data, including Windows, web, SaaS and mobile, to ANY device, anywhere. It provides end-users with an intuitive single point of access via Citrix Receiver and self-service to all their business apps on any device anywhere, and provides IT with a comprehensive…

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    The 2012 Cloud Management Challenge

    December 27, 2011
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    The 2012 Cloud Management Challenge

    Private cloud management offerings are today very well suited to create and manage self-service scenarios for workloads that are either transient, or that require significant scaling of resources during the daily or weekly cycle of business activity. Private cloud management offerings are today not well suited to be the management solution through which all future…

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    2012: The Beginning of the End for Virtualization Management?

    December 22, 2011
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    While the legacy enterprise management vendors might like to think of themselves as the Borg (prepare to be assimilated - there is no escape), the new technical requirements and the new buying patterns in the virtualization market do not lend themselves to a repeat of history. Legacy management vendors are unlikely to be able to…

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    2011 Winners and Losers in Virtualization Management

    December 16, 2011
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    2011 Winners and Losers in Virtualization Management

    The management ecosystem for virtualization started to transform significantly in 2011, driven by VMware's new management strategy and management offerings. The big four are now boxed into an untenable position with expensive software that is hard to buy and hard to deploy. In 2012 there will be aggressive partnering in the ecosystem as vendors try…

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    Who can outmanoeuvre Citrix Flexcast?

    December 13, 2011
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    Who can outmanoeuvre Citrix Flexcast?

    Of all the vendors in the hosted desktop space, Citrix has been delivering desktop virtualisation solutions the longest. As such, perhaps they are the most aware that an enterprise desktop strategy isn't about delivering a single solution. A solution needs to be flexible enough to present a variety of services to a range of devices.…

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    Year in Review – Moving to the Cloud?

    December 9, 2011
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    The “cloud” has become quite the buzz word and in all appearances truly loved by the marketing side of the fence also. “Take it to the cloud.” That is one of my favorite lines from a Microsoft commercial campaign that I think really shows how mainstream the cloud has become. Facebook, iTunes, Twitter, Oxygen, Amazon…

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