Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) provides a modern cloud-first approach to managing Windows patches leveraging the Windows as a service model. Traditional, operating system upgrades occurred every few years and required admins to perform an in-place upgrade or wipe and reload methods which were very time consuming and doesn’t work in today’s rapidly changing […]
Flexera First SAM Provider to Optimize Spend Across All Cloud Assets
Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, today announced it’s extending its leadership in Software Asset Management (SAM) and license optimization with the latest release of FlexNet Manager® Suite for Enterprises. Flexera is the only SAM provider able to help organizations optimize all their cloud asset spend – from […]
Google and Citrix: Securing Enterprise Workspaces From Chromebooks to Cloud
This inspiring from Google Cloud Senior VP Urs Hölzle encapsulates the security mindset and innovations that Google is delivering — from endpoints to clouds. While Google has been building impressive security capabilities for their own products and services, they have also been working with partners like Citrix to extend cybersecurity capabilities. Cybersecurity demands a strong […]
How to Put Existing SANs to Good Use when Transitioning to Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Most vendors of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) advocate for discarding all traces of existing SANs, as if ridding the world of some dark evil. From where they stand, it’s easy to overlook the costly and time consuming efforts necessary to migrate data and processes from a 3-tier SAN to HCI clusters, especially in larger data centers. […]
Google Cloud How and why to build small container images
Today marks the first installment in a seven-part video and blog series from Google Developer Advocate Sandeep Dinesh on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment. Today he tackles the theory and practicalities of keeping your container images as small as possible. Docker makes building containers a breeze. Just put a standard […]
Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8+ Documentation Script Update Version 2.14
#Version 2.14 11-Apr-2018 Added the following properties to Application Details Application Type CPU Priority Level Home Zone Name Home Zone Only Ignore User Home Zone Icon from Client Local Launch Disabled Secure Command Line Arguments Enabled Add shortcut to user’s desktop Add shortcut to user’s Start Menu Start Menu Folder Wait for Printer Creation Added […]
AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Optimized TensorFlow 1.7 for Faster Training on Amazon EC2 C5 and P3
For CPU-based training scenarios, the AMIs now include TensorFlow 1.7 built with Intel’s Advanced Vector Instructions (AVX), SSE, and FMA instruction sets, to accelerate vector and floating point computations. The AMIs are also fully configured with Intel MKL-DNN to accelerate math routines used in neural network training on Intel Xeon Platinum processors powering Amazon EC2 […]
Microsoft TLS Handshake errors and connection timeouts? Maybe it’s the CTL engine….
Marius and Tolu from the Directory Services Escalation Team. Today, we’re going to talk about a little twist on some scenarios you may have come across at some point, where TLS connections fail or timeout for a variety of reasons. You’re probably already familiar with some of the usual suspects like cipher suite mismatches, certificate […]
Introducing Virtual Data Optimizer to Reduce Cloud and On-premise Storage Costs
New to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper module which adds data reduction capabilities to the Linux block storage stack. VDO uses inline compression and data deduplication techniques to transparently shrink data as it is being written to storage media. VDO combines three techniques — zero-block elimination, data […]
Remote Desktop Manager Database Upgrade Steps
Ah yes, once again it’s time to get back to basics! A little while ago, I discussed how Remote Desktop Manager sometimes needs a database upgrade to ensure new features are properly added Today, I want to dig a little bit deeper — while still keeping things nice and simple — by looking at the steps […]