The Problem for Companies: Legacy Applications Many companies that migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 struggled with transforming both desktops and applications, and often found themselves with budget for one and not the other, forcing them to forklift their application portfolios. As a result, they still have an application inventory that includes multiple versions…
With the launch of Windows 10 imminent, and the end of support for Windows Server 2003 official, we’ve launched two SysTrack Kits targeted at helping enterprise environments characterize and modernize their Windows desktops and servers. They each focus on different aspects of executing those transformational exercises as well as steady state monitoring for the EUC…
The impending release of Windows 10 is certainly generating plenty of coverage. Consumers and IT administrators alike will have a lot to consider when they’re deciding if it’s the right time for an upgrade to this newest iteration of Microsoft’s popular OS. Consumers using Windows 7 or 8 will be treated to a free upgrade,…
My name is Mayunk Jain and I manage Technical Marketing for HDX technologies at Citrix Systems, Inc. I am excited to author my first guest article on the Lakeside Software’s blog today and would like to talk about the Citrix – Lakeside Partnership and specifically about our joint value in the XenApp and XenDesktop space….
Benjamin Franklin famously said, “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” At the risk of being presumptuous I’d like to add OS upgrades to that list. In my more than 36 years of IT experience this is a truism. Love them, hate them, tolerate them, or accommodate…
Troubleshooting IT issues can be an extensive and strenuous process. If you’re administering a large environment the process can quickly become overwhelming. You might start by asking all kinds of questions – is it an isolated issue? How long has this been going on? How is this impacting the users? Are users affected who may…
SysTrack Kits – Integration and Custom Reporting One of the most exciting features of our latest version of SysTrack (7.2) is the new Kits program. This provides use case specific reports and dashboards to cover a broad set of different operational and analytical needs for a wide set of different environments. This month we’re pleased…
What do these two topics have in common? More than you might think… I spent the majority of my career in professional services and product management in the software industry. Every product lifecycle follows the established pattern of “Assess, Design, Deploy, and Manage” or something along those lines. The focus is often brought on the…
Customers today want to be actively involved in value creation with their vendor partners. The key to joint value creation is having a platform around which customer and partner resources can identify and jointly create innovation opportunities. What is Co-Creation? In their book The Co-Creation Paradigm Venkat Ramaswamy and Kerimcan Ozcan provide numerous case studies…
It’s an exciting day here in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (not because Spring has come – that hasn’t happened yet). Today sees the culmination of many months of work and years of experience. You may have noticed that today VMware announced a new cloud-based desktop assessment service called “SysTrack Desktop Assessment.” Many of you have long…
In just one short week from today many of us will be descending on the beautiful city of San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley. The occasion is the start of NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference GTC 2015, which is promising to be jam-packed with interesting technologies, even more interesting people, and so many interesting…
There are few companies that I truly admire. Most tech companies specifically start with a really cool idea and then tend to lose some of their focus on innovation as they grow up. Not so NVIDIA – Other than recognizing NVIDIA as a maker of most of the graphics cards I put into my PCs…