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Read "Six Steps to Continuous Application Readiness"

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:52:00 0500

This whitepaper from Flexera Software outlines the six key steps of an application migration project, illustrates the major tasks within each phase, and explains how the Flexera Software solution can reduce the risk and cost of your application migration projects by providing a consistent approach to continuous application readiness....

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta Delivers

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:49:00 0500

The Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta adds Dynamic Memory host memory management and RemoteFX to enhance VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) implementations. eWEEK Labs' review of the beta shows that the new functionality enhances Hyper-V virtualization and VMware still sets the pace in enterprise VM infrastructure....

CA Client Manager Eases Windows 7 Migration Woes

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:49:00 0500

IT organizations that have jumped operating systems in the past and are now overdue for their refresh will find migrating to Windows 7 much easier using CA's latest client manager. Baker Tilly, one of the world's largest accounting firms, was looking to update. Using CA solutions, it maximized employee productivity while migrating 2,400 users to Windows 7 in just four weeks....

Download "Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.2 (for IT Professionals)"

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:13:00 0500

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.2 is a minor upgrade correct minor issues and add optional catalog support....

Performance tuning Windows Server 2008 R2 - Part 1

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:16:00 0500

Here on the Performance Team we constantly deal with issues caused by incorrect performance tuning of various servers. This will generally manifest itself in system or process slowness or memory or CPU bottlenecks. I have decided to publish a short series on basic guidelines you can use when provisioning a new server or tuning an old one. First, we should address hardware scaling....

Windows 7 Migration - New Approach, Easier Transition

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:28:00 0500

As the Director of Post Sales and Services here at InstallFree, I have the opportunity to work with our customers on their deployment of our product. In this blog post, I would like to share with you some of the lessons learned from these deployments, and also how we developed a new approach based on these lessons....

AppDNA AppTitude: Application Migration / Compatibility for Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V, Windows 7 Video Podcast with Samit Patel - Episode 31

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:27:00 0500

In the following DABCC TV Virtualization Video Podcast, we are very happy to have Samit Patel, Vice-President of Global Technology & Solutions at AppDNA with us. Samit walks us through the AppDNA Appitude solution for Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V, and Windows 7. Samit does an amazing job diving deep in to how to use AppTitude to verify and troubleshoot application issues running on and/or migrating to XenApp, App-V, and Windows 7. This is an amazing product and a must see video....

Getting a bit more life out of legacy applications with VMWare ThinApp

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:46:00 0500

Recently I was tasked with improving availability of a legacy application used by a few people in my organization. Simple enough, I thought, since most of the PCs in the environment are still running Windows XP and the application does run well. The problem isn't that the application doesn't run (yet) ? it is that there isn't a good way to quickly make it available....

Download sepago Profile Migrator for Citrix, VMware, Windows Desktop Environments

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:51:00 0500

sepago, inventors of the Citrix User Profile Manager, offer a new solution for profile migration, sepago Profile Migrator....

IT's Next Headache: Dealing with Software Sprawl

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:40:00 0500

IT is a very cyclical business. Just as tomorrow's next big thing becomes yesterday's technology, so the problems that IT encounters continue to have a familiar feel to them. How we deal with the recurring IT management and deployment issues is important. Instead of continuing to follow conventional wisdom around areas such as application delivery and desktop management, we have to break the cycle and rethink our approach for the future of IT....