What can desktop virtualization do for you?

What Can Desktop Virtualization Do for You? Like other virtualization products, desktop virtualization holds the promise of dramatically simplified IT infrastructure, cost-effective IT utilization and management, with greater security around enterprise data. Vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix claim that they can provide enterprises with a new model of enterprise computing, whereby any thin client can be used to securely access company data without the need for an individual to have their own machine, with their own data, and their own applications running on it. As with most distributed computing models, desktop virtualization is faced with a serious performance challenge when enterprises attempt to use this technology to support distributed users who may be located across the country or across the globe. How Does SSL-VPN Compare to Traditional VPN? Client-based SSL-VPN solutions offer a valid alternative to conventional remote access software. Factors like platform-independent design and fully transparent data and application access work in favor of this approach and more than offset the additional installation efforts. As a cost-free solution, economic benefits add to the technological advantages making it an ideal complement to the existing site-to-site VPNs. Virtualizing Business-Critical Databases? Six Solutions Server consolidation. Provisioning. Utility computing. Grids. The data center is constantly innovating in order to drive down costs while improving the delivery of business services. "Big Iron" environments have been a mainstay in IT operations, but most businesses now have a standing order to roll out upgraded or new applications using lower cost, and clustered commodity systems whenever possible. The challenge is to retain all the performance and reliability of "Big Iron" with these commodity components. 8 Ways to Move Beyond Just Content Sharing and Collaboration When it comes to using and managing content, most companies need help improving efficiency for individuals, enabling efficient document sharing, leveraging content in business processes and managing content services, products and providers. What's less obvious is how to get what the business -- not just individual departments or teams -- needs from all this content. How do you or your users differentiate between business-critical and unimportant files? Confronting the Gap Between Strategy and Execution Almost all organizations around the world are confronted with the same fundamental business pain -- the disconnect between the world of making decisions and the world of executing them. There are three key new trends that can help close the gap between strategy and execution. Executing your strategies today will keep organizations optimizing business performance. 8 Keys for SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization Some IT administrators argue that single-purpose servers are the cause of an un-optimized infrastructure. Others say that this is an optimal architecture because of the isolation between applications even if the servers are not fully utilized. However, it is more likely that isolated systems are a symptom of an unoptimized infrastructure. The real problem begins when the SQL Server is being independently deployed by individual departments. eNewsletter Information: You are receiving this e-mail because you are a loyal subscriber to the Web Buyer's Guide White Paper Spotlight with the e-mail address ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide White Paper Spotlight, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2009 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy