If you’ve been paying attention to announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite, you’ve probably heard about the launch of Windows Virtual Desktop, which is a wonderful new option for streamlined delivery of desktops and applications. Lakeside Software is happy to announce that we are partnering with Microsoft to help customers achieve a great end-user experience with the…
For large banks, monitoring EUC environments means ensuring quality end-user experience on thousands of systems despite aging infrastructure and a global workforce. Adding to that challenge, those in banking and finance also contend with tight security and compliance standards to protect themselves and their customers’ assets. Security and end-user experience are frequently treated as opposing…
It’s been more than three years since the release of Windows 10, yet many enterprises are still early in their Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration journey. Although Microsoft has extended support of Windows 7 until 2023, the choice to delay the upgrade beyond the initial January 2020 deadline will likely come with a steep…
Geisinger is one of the largest health service organizations in the US and sets an example in healthcare VDI environments. With about 30,000 employees, Geisinger’s computing environment not only has to scale across its hospitals and research facilities, but it also needs to guarantee a certain standard of performance so that its staff can maintain a high quality of care. An organization…
Lakeside Software is leaving VMworld 2018 on a high note. Literally. I’m writing this over the Mojave Desert, surrounded by members of our team, swiftly (hopefully) returning to our home base in Michigan. There’s a strong blogger and press presence at VMworld, and sites like BrianMadden.com have already published great live blogs and recaps. To…
Few times in a company’s lifetime does a new release introduce truly revolutionary functionality. Today, I am happy to share with you a bit more about our latest release promising just that: SysTrack 8.4. With this recent release, the Lakeside team is offering customers a whole new level of diagnostics by making use of artificial…
With the release of Remote Desktop modern infrastructure (RDmi) around the corner and Microsoft Inspire just having finished, there’s a lot of discussion around migrating to RDmi environments. RDmi is a new PaaS offering that’s viewed as a redesign of the familiar RDS. This new offering has many new features and security settings including a…
The VMworld 2018 sessions schedule is up with over 600 events to choose from. Don’t have time to flip through the catalog, but don’t want to stress about what to do when you get there? We’ve curated a list of the top 21 sessions and other VMworld activities you won’t want to miss. Simply follow…
Do your users’ virtual desktops spark joy? If not, it might be time to right-size your VDI. There are many compelling reasons to implement VDI. Placing multiple users on the same host can make hardware use more efficient and lower maintenance needs. Additionally, because the guest OS doesn’t live on the user’s device, VDI can…
Those of us in the end-user computing (EUC) space deal with the consequences of legacy systems and processes every day. It’s an ongoing effort to figure out what’s out there, how it’s performing, who is using it, and what their end-user experience is like. Ultimately this process can make understanding IT of the past much…
By naming his tunnel construction business The Boring Company, Elon Musk used double entendre to cop to something few CEOs would want to admit: that many lines of business are, well, boring. At least on the surface *ba dum tss*. “Enterprise IT software” doesn’t sound much more exciting than digging holes. And it’s not something…
Congratulations, you have set up a whole virtualized infrastructure for a batch of your users and the completion of that project adds it to your list of successful projects that have improved the environment. But success in anything, including IT, is relative. So how do we prove the project has been successful? The right way…