By Amitabh Sinha Every day we receive inbound calls from enterprise architects and IT leaders who are looking for the right solution to accelerate business growth. Inevitably, they share with us the following: (1) Our company has a cloud-first mandate: IT cannot deploy on-prem solutions unless a cloud service does not exist. (2) We are… Read more
January 19, 2019
Tidy Up Your IT Infrastructure & Find Joy in Cloud Desktops!
Small Step to the Cloud Part 2: GPU Power Users Have Waited Long Enough
In last week’s blog I talked about how one small step to the cloud (instead of a giant leap!) can make a huge difference in your business. After all, the ultimate goal of great IT innovation is business agility; IT teams should be helping their companies grow. Last week’s small step is about solving the… Read more
VDI Experts: Take One Small Step to the Cloud Instead of a Giant Leap
Cloud-First or Cloud-Next? These days, many organizations have a cloud-first strategy – an actual mandate from the top down to de-invest in data center infrastructure and migrate IT assets to a public cloud. VDI workloads are one of the first things that get moved to the cloud because making the move not only alleviates complexity,… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Out with VDI, In With Desktop Cloud for Legal
In my many years in the VDI business, I have engaged with law firms large and small, all over the world, to help them derive value from virtual desktops. It’s surprising how many law firms were early adopters of VDI, because these firms tend to have small IT staffs, so the herculean effort involved in… Read more
Tidy Up Your IT Infrastructure & Find Joy in Cloud Desktops!
There’s a best-selling book called “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing”. Have you heard of it? Now it’s a Netflix series featuring the author, Marie Kondo, and she’s creating lots of buzz taking on “collectors” who have unusual attachments to “stuff” and gently helping them let go. The… Read more
Flat-Rate Pricing Models are Key to Cloud PC Success
Organizations large and small are seeking new ways to grow and to do that, they have to be agile. If I had to choose two words that are most overused when it comes to discussions around virtual desktops, “flexibility” and “agility” would probably be my choices. Plenty of vendors claim these benefits for their VDI… Read more
With One Click, Cloud PCs Reduce the Pain of Disaster Recovery
Whether caused by major storms, fires, cybersecurity incidents or human error, 2018 was a difficult year for many people and for companies trying to recover from life and business disruptions. For organizations of all sizes, it’s imperative that you have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, because the consequences of business downtime can be catastrophic. Moreover,… Read more
In 2018, VDI Changed Forever. Time to Think Big!
In any given year there will be ups and downs, both personally and professionally; that’s just life. I hope as you look back on your 2018, as we all do this time of year, that you were able to find joy in many things, big and small. At Workspot, we’re taking stock of our year… Read more
Conversations with Customers: It’s a New World for CAD & BIM Power Users
My blog last week focused on the challenges faced by architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms from the perspective of the IT team. IT leaders are strategic partners in the business, and the technology choices they and their teams make really, really matter when it comes to supporting the growth objectives of the firm. In… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Autodesk University 2018
What a great event Autodesk threw in Las Vegas this year! We were fortunate to have two customers speak at the event; these architecture, engineering & construction (AEC) firms shared their experiences deploying Workspot cloud workstations on Microsoft Azure. The business outcomes are really exciting for them (and we’re excited for them too!). Tune in… Read more
Ready for Cloud PCs? Make Sure They’re Enterprise Ready.
Enterprise customers are adopting cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to provide modern, flexible workplace solutions that allow users to securely access their corporate resources from any location, on any device, for anywhere-productivity. The pace of change is pretty astonishing! With all of the problems IT teams have encountered with on-premises VDI solutions, those conversations are largely… Read more
Cloud PCs: Turnkey Service or Design & Build?
In a recent blog we talked about the importance of a globally distributed architecture for planet-scale VDI. The architecture you select for your virtual desktop solution has tremendous implications for business agility. If you missed that blog, definitely have a look. Today I want to spend some time on what we mean by a turnkey… Read more
User Experience is Everything!
Having just finished an exciting and rewarding week at Autodesk University 2018 (AU 2018) in Las Vegas, and with the FSLogix acquisition announcement by Microsoft this week, user experience is top of mind for me right now. It’s All About Users! At the AU 2018 conference, we were excited to welcome multiple customers into our… Read more
VDI That Spans 1000 Data Centers? Why You Should Think Big.
I am guessing your first reaction to the headline is “that’s crazy – why would I ever need to do that?” Information technology experts are forward thinkers – CIOs and their teams have to anticipate compute demands well into the future to make sure the technology choices they make support the organization’s growth objectives. Are you ready… Read more
Can a Private Cloud Keep Up with the Public Cloud?
We all know the huge impact the big 3 public cloud players – Amazon, Google and Microsoft – are having on how IT services are delivered to organizations of all sizes. There are still private clouds in use too; you can have a private cloud on-premises in your own datacenter, or you can have a… Read more
PC in the Cloud = Planet-Scale, Turnkey VDI
Planet-Scale Power to the People Most information technology infrastructure products – databases, server virtualization, file servers, VDI, storage, servers, application servers, and many others – built over the last few decades were built and optimized for deployment in a single data center. In some cases, IT teams got creative and were able to extend these solutions to… Read more
What Success Looks Like: Workspot Cloud Desktops
There’s no doubt that Workspot’s cloud-native technology innovation in the VDI space is disruptive, but equally powerful for our customers is how we have defined ourselves by our innovative Customer Success Program. It’s deeply embedded in our core values, because if our customers aren’t happy, nothing else matters. But what does success look like to… Read more
Conversations with Customers: You Can Retire! (Your Data Center that is…)
One of the meetings I had this week with a company inquiring about Workspot inspired this blog, because there must be plenty of IT leaders out there thinking in the same way as the folks I spoke with. Although this company knows they need to move to the cloud, they are in a situation where… Read more
Why is Less than 99.95% Desktop Availability Acceptable?
Author: Harry Labana Since joining Workspot, I have had the unique opportunity to talk to many production-deployed cloud customers. In this post, I’ll share some key insights derived from many great conversations with IT and business leaders who are on their journey to the cloud. I’m honored that so many great thinkers felt free to… Read more
Azure is the Best Cloud for Windows Virtual Desktops. Period.
Microsoft announced a new Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service on Microsoft Azure last week, and as one of the leading Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSP), Workspot announced Day 1 support for WVD. We achieved our CSP designation more than a year ago, and we have continued to deepen our engagement with Microsoft product, technology and field teams… Read more
Workspot’s Day One Support For Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
We’ve seen many compelling announcements emanating from Microsoft Ignite this week. One measure of the significance of where Microsoft is headed can be seen in the jump in their stock price! Another measure is the resonance with what customers want. Windows 10 first became available 18 months ago on Azure, and Workspot was there on… Read more
The Top 9 Growth Factors for AEC & The Key to Achieving Them
Comfortable. At ease. Relaxed. You’ll never see those words among the qualifications for a great IT leader. The relentless change in technology and business keeps everyone on their toes, and great IT leaders are right there on the front lines questioning everything so they can continually improve. Chief among these questions is “How can technology… Read more
Conversations with Customers: How PC in the Cloud is Different than VDI
There’s nothing I like better than talking with IT leaders as they evaluate or re-evaluate their IT infrastructure and consider their options for virtual desktops. It’s one of the things I enjoyed most about the many years I spent in Executive Briefing Centers all over the world discussing the benefits of virtual desktops. All too many… Read more
Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy VDI! Buy a PC or Buy a PC in the Cloud.
With so many CIOs emptying their on-premises data centers, traditional VDI is on its way out too, and for good reason: It’s complex, costly, and performs poorly. That means you really have two choices: you can buy physical PCs, and you can buy PCs in the cloud. Depending on the use case, one or the… Read more
Why Every Business Needs a PC in the Cloud Solution
There are nearly 600 million physical PCs being used in businesses around the world. And even though IT teams have spent a couple of decades creating processes and tools to make buying, provisioning, securing, managing, fixing, and upgrading PCs easier, these organizations still face numerous challenges dealing with them. Foremost among these challenges is the… Read more
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