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Maximise the Advantages of Desktop Virtualisation to Drive Business Growth
By Citrix | 6/6/2013
Desktop virtualisation provides important advantages to IT. It unlocks the full benefits of consumerisation, improves the security of today’s more-diverse computing environments and reduces operational costs. Learn more about solutions that can help customers maximise the business and IT advantages of desktop virtualisation.
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Virtualisation 2012 Vendor Analysis
By Citrix | 6/6/2013
This IDC study assesses the capability and business strategy of many vendors in the client virtualisation market. These vendors are selected based on their capabilities to provide centralised management solutions utilising one or more client virtualisation technologies such as centralised virtual desktop or virtual user session software. This study encompasses 11 vendors in the client virtualisation space, ranging from large software solution vendors. Download now for the key findings of this study.
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Desktop Virtualisation For All - Technical Overview
By Citrix | 6/6/2013
Many organisations embarking on the desktop virtualisation journey believe they need to follow the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) model where each user receives a virtual machine hosted in the data centre and running Microsoft® Windows® 7. VDI is a great option but not the only one. Find out more.
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Desktop Virtualisation For All
By Citrix | 6/6/2013
A one-size-fits-all approach to desktop virtualisation cannot meet all the different requirements of users. The challenge for IT is to deliver the right kind of desktop view and applications in the right way for each user type, while addressing IT priorities such as cost, security and ease of management. Read on.
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Desktop Transformation e-Book: Assess, Design, Deploy
By Citrix | 6/6/2013
Desktop virtualisation is a top strategic business initiative for IT. While its value is understood, many IT managers are wondering, “How do I get started?” “What stages will my company go through?” and “What are the best practices?” Access this e-Book now to guide you through the answers to these questions.
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Top 10 Reasons to Strengthen Information Security with Desktop Virtualisation
By Citrix | 5/6/2013
The tension between security and by business productivity has never been so acute. To operate at peak performance and competitiveness, organisations need workers to access enterprise resources in more places and in more ways than ever before - but the resulting proliferation of work locations, types of workers and access methods has pushed traditional security strategies to the breaking point. Find out how to regain control and reduce risk without sacrificing business productivity and growth.
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The “Enterprisation” of Mobile Apps – Moving from Corporate Liability to Business Asset
By Citrix | 5/6/2013
Many companies have established mobility as a core strategic technology, deploying corporate liable devices and allowing personally liable devices to connect to their networks and back-office applications. Yet few companies have established a realistic strategy of how to make the apps being utilised by end users truly enterprise controlled, secured and managed. Read on.
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Delivering Enterprise Information Securely on Android and Apple iOS Devices
By Citrix | 5/6/2013
This white paper describes, from an IT perspective, the issues that arise when allowing Android and iOS-based tablets and smartphones into the enterprise network—and the steps IT must take to maintain control while encouraging productivity and mobility. This paper outlines the security considerations, risk mitigation options and the architecture required to support tablets and smartphones as consumer-grade devices accessing sensitive enterprise data. Read now.
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Enterprise Mobility Management: Embracing BYOD Through Secure App and Data Delivery
By Citrix | 5/6/2013
The transformation of computing through mobility, consumerisation, bring-your-own device (BYOD) and flex-work offers powerful benefits for today’s organisations - but it poses significant challenges for IT. The first response of many IT organisations to the influx of consumer-grade and employee-owned mobile devices has been to lock down and control every mobile device in the enterprise through mobile device management (MDM) solutions. Find out why Citrix enterprise mobility management is the best approach.
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Power of Three: Building Mobile Initiatives Guided by Business Goals, Technology and Governance
By Citrix | 5/6/2013
The use of powerful mobile devices has become so widespread industry leaders in almost every sector have embraced mobility solutions as central elements of their IT and business operations. As mobile budgets grow, so does the influence of business units on mobility strategy. Read on.
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Security Awareness Tip
Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
