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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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more
Cloud PCs = 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,… 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… Read more
Why is Less than 99.95% Desktop Availability Acceptable?
In this post, I’ll share some key insights derived from many great conversations with IT and business leaders who are… 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… 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… Read more
Conversations with Customers: How SaaS Cloud Desktops are 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… Read more
Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy VDI! Buy a Cloud PC!
With so many CIOs emptying their on-premises data centers, traditional VDI is on its way out too, and for good… 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… Read more
VDI Discussions Are So 2010. Let’s Get Real About Cloud PC Performance!
What’s the formula for Cloud PC success? Well, if you’re pressed for time, you can skip right to the punchline… Read more
To Fearlessness & Innovation: Cheers to the CIO 100 Tech Leaders!
CIO Magazine’s 2018 celebration of innovative thinking and highly impactful technology execution was held in Southern California. It was an… Read more
GPU Workstations Make a Grand Entrance to the Cloud
When was the last time someone raved about how great their virtual GPU workstations performed? Pretty much never? Over and… Read more
De-Risk Your Disaster Recovery Plan with One-Click DR
How confident do you feel about your Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan? Have you adequately planned for all the major threat… Read more
The Secret Sauce of Cloud Desktop Security
When an organization considers moving their desktops to the cloud, data security becomes a primary concern. The prospect of relinquishing… Read more
Thanks for the Desktop Cloud Kudos, Microsoft!
Author: Rod Hoffman Microsoft has given us a very special award! We believe awards come in many forms. They can… Read more
Simplicity + Enterprise- Ready: The Peanut Butter and Chocolate of Cloud PCs
When it comes to enterprise software, you’ve always made tradeoffs and hard choices. In particular, simplicity and enterprise-class features just… Read more
There’s No “I” in Workspot (or How VDI Infrastructure is Ruining Your Life)
You’ve heard the phrase, “There’s no I in Team”. This basically means that teams must work together to achieve a… Read more
Your Data Center is Dead, Long Live Azure!
As recently as a year or so ago, most tech industry pundits were still talking about a hybrid world in… Read more
Why Choose Born in the Cloud Virtual Desktops
These days all kinds of software companies have jumped on the cloud bandwagon – and it’s easy to see why…. Read more
The New “Gold Standard” of Virtual Desktop Performance
What does “great performance” mean to you? Those of us in the IT world (and particularly in the world of… Read more
Cloud Workstations Drive Corporate Growth at Engineering Firm Mead & Hunt
Author: Andy Knauf, CIO, Mead & Hunt Guest blogger Andy Knauf, CIO of Mead & Hunt, shares his journey to… Read more
In the Cloud Era, Here’s What You Need to Know About VDI Scalability
For a very long time – really since the beginning of VDI and virtual apps – we have been thinking… Read more
IT Execs Must Grab a Chair at the Strategy Table – Here’s How
There are countless articles about the rise of the IT executive as a strategic player whose team enables the organization… Read more
Got Cobwebs in Your Data Center? You Need a Cloud Desktop Service!
Spring cleaning is a time-honored tradition. It must be an evolutionary phenomenon that humans seem to be like-minded about this;… Read more
The New Math of VDI Performance – Better than a PC!
Anyone who has experience with traditional VDI knows that users suffer with poor performance. It is always worse than physical… Read more
Forget Everything About VDI! Put Your PCs in the Cloud.
What are the words that come to mind when you think about VDI? By VDI, we mean virtual desktops deployed… Read more
CIOs Are On A Fast Track To Digital Transformation
In my role as Workspot’s Chief Sales Officer, I speak with CIOs across many industries every day as we seek… Read more
GPU Cloud Workstations on Azure Are a Big Deal for BIM in AEC Firms
The AEC software and services market is growing Analysts who follow the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) market generally agree… Read more
Found: The “D” in VDI. (It’s in the Workspot Desktop Cloud!)
In last week’s blog, I reported the “D” in VDI missing! We’ve lost focus on the desktop during the last… Read more
Missing: Have You Seen the “D” in VDI Lately?
Better double check; you may have forgotten the “D” in your VDI. Of course, you realize that VDI stands for… Read more
The Tao of DaaS Monitoring
Workspot’s raison-d’être is to improve the lives of everyone involved in the “virtual desktops” food chain, whether it’s the CIO,… Read more
The Cloud-Native VDI Advantage: What Every CIO Needs to Know
When Workspot was founded in 2012, the team’s goal was to completely reinvent the VDI stack for the cloud era…. Read more
Workspot Desktop Cloud: We Only Have Eyes for Azure
It’s true: Workspot and Microsoft Azure are “an item”. Workspot is an insanely simple, turnkey service for deploying desktops, apps… Read more
The 4 T’s of Cloud Desktop Success
Over the years we’ve often talked about the innovation Workspot has brought to the world of virtual desktops. We’ve come… Read more
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution? Workspot Desktop Cloud Can Help You Keep It!
Did you make any resolutions for 2018? The most common New Year’s resolutions don’t seem to change much year to… Read more
2017: The Year of Workspot Cloud Desktops
Happy New Year! On behalf of the entire Workspot team I want to wish you health, joy and dramatically simplified… Read more
Sleep Well with PC Disaster Recovery in Azure
What’s Next Mother Nature? I don’t mean to be fatalistic, but it seems like we’ve had way more than our… Read more
How to Benchmark a Cloud Desktop Service
It’s amazing how fast the VDI market is changing and exciting because with these changes customers will finally realize some… Read more
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