When was the last time someone raved about how great their virtual GPU workstations performed? Pretty much never? Over and over, we've heard the stories from the trenches: Using traditional VDI to deliver high-performance workstations typically fails the performance, simplicity and "CIO, CAD manager, and design engineer" test. Workspot Workstation Cloud, with GPU-accelerated Windows 10 Desktops running in any of the 54+ regions of Azure around the world, passed these tests, then exceeded our customer's expectations and even some of our own. A great way to hear this story is directly from our customer, so we created a couple of videos that share their journey, starring our customer IT heroes from Mead & Hunt.

How confident do you feel about your Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan? Have you adequately planned for all the major threat scenarios? Is everything well-documented and periodically tested? Can your employees get back to work quickly and safely? Are the cornerstones of your plan simplicity, speed and affordability? Beginning in 2009, Forrester Research teamed up with the Disaster Recovery Journal to periodically ask these questions and more of IT and risk mitigation professionals to gauge the maturity of disaster recovery planning. Among other findings, the most recent survey in 2018 reflects that over 50% of businesses never conduct a full DR simulation test and over 40% conduct it only once a year! With such low levels of testing, how can a business leader be confident that their DR solution will be sufficient and work when it is needed?

A DR plan is a risk mitigation tool that enables a business to restart operations as quickly as possible post a disruptive event. Could there be risk to your risk mitigation tool? Let's take a closer look.

When an organization considers moving their desktops to the cloud, data security becomes a primary concern. The prospect of relinquishing control of IT assets and possibly introducing risk to the business makes everyone pretty uncomfortable - to say the least. 

Microsoft has given us a very special award! We believe awards come in many forms. They can be as simple as the personal gratification one gets from a job well done or a “thank you” from a customer when you’ve gone the extra mile to help them out. Then there are the “big” awards that come with the recognition that you’re doing something really meaningful – at scale. On June 28^th David Willis, CVP US OCP group at Microsoft, notified Workspot that we’d been chosen for the 2018 MSUS Partner Award - Partner Seller. That's a long title, but what it means is that we are doing amazing work for our customers, and that is the best award we can receive!