Back in 2000, native apps meant Windows apps. Microsoft built a great set of tools (Visual Basic, Visual Studio) to build Windows apps. Hundreds of thousands of developers were trained on these tools. IT deployed Windows apps to endpoints (desktops and laptops) that they owned. And IT managed the applications with ESD tools (Altiris, SCCM, etc.).

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.