Technology is advancing all around us in ways that will influence how we live and work in the near future. As digital leaders, IT professionals know the importance of staying aware of these changes and driving strategic innovation. To help you spot trends to watch in 2020, I’ve asked Lakeside thought leaders from around the globe…
Sizing VDI is a balancing act between end-user experience and infrastructure costs. Further complicating the task is the fact that software and user needs evolve over time, typically in ways that demand more resources and a higher quality experience. To keep up with these changes and ensure that both productivity and density are optimized, VDI…
What once seemed so futuristic is now a reality as we head into 2020. Times are changing and technology is advancing faster than ever, making it critical to stay on top of industry trends. To help you prepare for the next decade, we’ve compiled our readership’s favorite blog posts from 2019 which focus on hot…
The public sector has access to more data than ever before. While this offers unprecedented opportunities to make decisions based on real-time information, being able to effectively use and manage that data can be challenging. But, if the right steps are taken, IT leaders can be in a position to help fundamentally change the way…
If you want to increase the likelihood that employees feel valued by your organization, passionate about their jobs, and productive at work, it’s time to evaluate their technology. Study after study has shown the link between the quality and performance of digital resources and employee satisfaction. In fact, over 50% of organizations that report high…
Nearly 70% of workers globally work remotely at least once a month, according to a “2019 State of Remote Work” report from Owl Labs. While the remote workers surveyed reported feeling happier and more productive in their jobs, the study also found that around three quarters of remote employee managers cite IT support issues as…
Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), their DaaS offering that enables organizations to run Windows 10 and Windows 7 virtual desktops on Azure. With Microsoft Ignite around the corner, I spoke with Ben Murphy, Global Director of Product Integrations at Lakeside, to learn the latest on WVD. Lifeguard IT…
The wait is over! Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop, a new service that streamlines the delivery of Windows desktops and applications on Azure. Lakeside has been working alongside Microsoft on WVD as a value-added services provider to help set customers up for success. Earlier this year, we announced our free…
The September KB4515384 cumulative update to Windows 10 1903 is the latest patch to make headlines for introducing showstopping bugs. It’s updates like this one that have some desktop admins nostalgic for the days before Windows as a service (WaaS) when updates were larger, but less frequent. The optional quality update was released to fix…
Digital experience monitoring is growing in popularity among the end-user computing and VDI ecosystem (especially in light of Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop offering). As such, the IT community is starting to set standards around what the technology truly constitutes. Gartner recently published their Market Guide for Digital Experience Monitoring1 defining the market and their recommendations. If…
Lakeside Software has been recognized in the “Best of VMworld 2019” Awards as a Finalist in the Digital Workspace category for the latest release of our product, SysTrack 9.0. The awards were announced at the VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco. We are honored to have received a “Best of VMworld” award for the fifth…
In 2018, Adobe announced a series of changes to their licensing to which many of us have already started adapting. But what are the Adobe licensing changes, which dates should you be looking out for and what do you need to do about them? If you are an IT administrator or a license manager for Adobe…