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Creating a Data-Driven Workforce Model

In most companies workforce costs average about 70%. These costs are the single biggest expense of any company and companies have struggled, particularly in the economic environment of the last few years, to gain workforce efficiencies. Many of them have used the sledge hammer approach – hiring freezes, layoffs, company reorganizations – because they’ve lacked…

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SysTrack 7: enhanced visualizations, greater customization, more data, more analytics, more real-time visibility

I’m excited about Lakeside’s announcement today of the release of the latest major version of its SysTrack product: SysTrack 7. SysTrack 7 represents a significant advancement in the creation and utilization of Big Data to enhance end user computing, and a major milestone in the evolution of SysTrack.  In its essence, SysTrack provides IT with the data they…

Citrix Synergy 2014 and Big Data for End User Computing
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Citrix Synergy 2014 and Big Data for End User Computing

When I started working at Citrix in the summer of 2005 in the consulting organization it was considered a special honor to attend the Citrix Synergy events (back then, it was called iForum and the format was slightly different, but we’re talking generally here about the large annual customer conference). As an employee, one had…

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Data-Driven Selling: How to take Guessing Out of the Conversation

One of the best business books I have ever read is Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig. From the authors’ perspective too often sales people go into a client with a solution without fully understanding the client’s problem or need. For a variety of…

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Big Data for End-User Computing – An Introduction

There are a tremendous number of conversations going on regarding Big Data in the enterprise, and the IT industry is certainly not an exception. In fact, IT represents a particularly interesting area in the exploration of interrelated datasets and user behaviors as it provides not only supporting infrastructure and server data, but the much more…

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X-IO and Lakeside Simplifying the Search for Storage Solutions

When you’re looking into enterprise storage options, the amount of information available to you and the in-depth knowledge you need of your environment to make an informed decision can become overwhelming. It’s easy to ballpark how much overall space you need and tack on some extra for expected growth and overhead, but that can quickly…

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Monitoring Citrix XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 Has Never Been Easier

Citrix has made some waves in the IT community with the recent releases of XenDesktop 7.5 and XenApp 7.5. Whether it be an app or a large desktop infrastructure, the newest versions of these leading products provide some of the best the market has to offer for virtualization solutions. Here at Lakeside we get pretty…

Monitoring Citrix XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 Has Never Been Easier

Citrix has made some waves in the IT community with the recent releases of XenDesktop 7.5 and XenApp 7.5. Whether it be an app or a large desktop infrastructure, the newest versions of these leading products provide some of the best the market has to offer for virtualization solutions. Here at Lakeside we get pretty excited over software and…