by Israel Sumano We’re excited to feature guest blogger Israel Sumano, the visionary behind Southland Industries’ transition to Workspot GPU cloud workstations on Microsoft Azure. Southland is a CIO 100 award winner for the implementation, and change management was a important factor in their success. I’ve been with Southland Industries for more than 8 years,… Read more
What is Multi-Region Cloud VDI & Why Does it Matter?
Did you get a chance to read our blog on the G.E.T. Framework for VDI? G.E.T represents the top 3 decision criteria for VDI solutions, and it’s important for you to carefully consider each to ensure your virtual desktop requirements are met. Today I want to focus on the “G” in G.E.T., which is “Global,… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Cloud Desktops for Financial Services Firms
My conversation with this leading financial services firm was an eye-opener. Hearing first-hand how tough the regulatory environment is for these firms is no surprise, but it reminded me why they have shunned public cloud adoption for so long. Along with the healthcare industry, financial services firms are probably more subject to data privacy and… Read more
Score with the GET Framework for VDI Solutions!
“Fast, Good or Cheap – pick two,” is a saying many of us have heard. Less known is the CAP Theorem, which states that a distributed database system can only provide 2 of 3 guarantees: Do you want Consistency, Availability or Partition Tolerance? In either case, you can’t have all three. These triangles illustrate how… Read more
Webinar Series: Workspot Cloud Conversations with CIOs & Microsoft
When you discover something great, you want to share it with your family, friends and colleagues, right? That’s exactly what we’re doing during our upcoming webinar series with Microsoft and two of our customers. Our webinar series reflects the cloud conversations we are having with CIOs around the world! We’re teaming up with our friends… Read more
Guest Blog: CIO Brian Nordmann on How IT Teams Can Create Competitive Advantages
Welcome Brian Nordmann! Our guest blogger this week is the CIO of engineering and environmental consulting firm Dudek, who is sharing his insights about how IT teams can create competitive advantages that attract new opportunities. ******************************** Working closely with our business partners, the Dudek IT team tackled a complicated technology challenge that when solved, became… Read more
Why CIOs & COOs are Partnering to Achieve Excellence with Cloud-Edge Desktops
These days it’s not surprising to see CIOs and COOs working more closely together than ever. The reason is that most CIOs today are deeply embedded in forming the business strategy that is driving company growth. IT solutions as simple support tools for an organization is now history; now technology choices are crucial to efficient… Read more
Conversations with Customers: With Workspot Cloud Desktops, You’re Ready for Anything
Flexibility and business continuity were the words-of-the-day as I explored the possibilities with a growing, highly specialized healthcare center recently. As their organization evolves, they are coming to terms with the reality of having a small IT team and what that means for focusing their resources. They know it’s not the best use of their time… Read more
Workspot Cloud Desktops Deliver Beyond the Promise of VDI
Collectively, the Workspot team knows many, many VDI experts all over the world. There’s a bunch of really smart people out there who’ve implemented on-premises VDI solutions over the years; unfortunately, they’ve been limited by the technology and so have the customers using it. Many promises have been made about the simplicity, performance, scalability, and… Read more
NVIDIA GTC 2019: Use Cases for GPU Cloud Workstations in Azure
I just spent the week at NVIDIA’s GTC 2019 event in San Jose, along with our Microsoft colleagues and some joint customers. So much has happened since GTC 2018! A year ago, we showcased our turnkey cloud PC and GPU cloud workstation service in the Microsoft booth, where we created quite a stir when attendees… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Scale as You Grow Cloud PCs for Contractors
Business changes so fast these days that organizations need to be ready for anything. Whether it’s hiring new employees, acquiring another company or bringing on contingent workers, IT teams need to get new people productive now, while avoiding the cost and complexity of dealing with additional infrastructure. Cloud PCs for contractors can do exactly that…. Read more
The Top 3 Questions to Ask Cloud Desktop Service & DaaS Providers
We’re seeing the mass migration to cloud computing play out across industries, from law firms and healthcare organizations to financial services and engineering/construction firms. Although the differences between industries are significant, each having it’s unique computing requirements for different types of users, they all have one thing in common: They want to grow, and business… Read more
What’s Your Definition of “Turnkey” Desktop as a Service (DaaS)?
Everyone knows that public cloud adoption is mainstream these days, and one of the most strategic moves an IT department can make toward fulfilling a cloud-first gameplan is moving their desktop workloads to the cloud. However, there are a few “flavors” of Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solutions, and the differences between them have huge… Read more
Edge-Native Virtual Desktops: It’s All About Performance!
42? Sure, if we’re talking about the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Then there’s 54. That refers to a much easier concept, and we even know the question: How many data centers do you have? Today it’s 54. Let’s discuss how every customer has access to 54+ data centers… Read more
What is Cloud-Native VDI/DaaS? Why Does it Matter for Business Growth?
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 looking for a cloud-native… Read more
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
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