Ransomware has been all over the news since 2015. You’d think we would all know how to deal with it and the fad would be dying by now. Well, that’s what I would think. It turns out that ransomware generates a lot of cash for criminals, an estimated $1 billion in 2016. It also has […]
Archives for November 2017
What is Smart Object Storage?
The simple answer – Smart Object Storage is “object storage with more intelligence,” offering an extension to the basic features object storage provides. With that said, Smart Object Storage is, first and foremost, actual AWS S3 object storage PLUS valuable management and analytic extensions that historically have never been available with traditional object storage. What’s […]
Cloud Provider Cuts RTO and RPO from Days to Hours with NAKIVO
Cloud Direct, a cloud services provider (CSP), headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom, provides VM disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution with NAKIVO Backup & Replication and reduces RTOs and RPOs from days to hours for its customers. NAKIVO Inc., a fast-growing software company for protecting virtualized and cloud environments, has announced today that Cloud […]
Configuring XenMobile on a Citrix Cloud – Citrix Video
October 19, 2017 Webinar with David Young, Solutions Architect and Product Champion, and Brandon Lee, Solutions Marketer. Video Recording of a live demo of FSLogix and an overview of the latest release of FSLogix Apps featuring Roaming XenApp Email Search and OneDrive App along with Skype for Business Global Address List and Device Based Licensing. […]
What’s New in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We’re beginning to roll out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Windows 10 customers around the world. This release upgrades Microsoft Edge to EdgeHTML 16, the best version of Microsoft Edge yet. The Fall Creators Update also includes new enhancements like improved favorites management and pinned sites, new developer APIs like CSS Grid Layout […]
Multi-factor Authentication for Citrix XenDekstop / NetScaler against Azure AD
In my last post about secure access to XenDesktop virtual workspaces I tried to give an overview of the different ways to implement multi-factor authentication with Citrix NetScaler and XenDesktop. I came to the conclusion that integrating the remote access with Azure AD and using the Microsoft MFA feature is a very end user friendly […]
CISO’s Dilemma When Productivity and Cybersecurity Face Off
Today organizations are struggling with the best way to protect against attacks that are targeting the endpoint. Too often, the security strategy has been to put the onus on the individual employee. Research has shown, over and over again, that training and user restrictions are both tedious and expensive, and have a very low success […]
NAKIVO Wins Great User Experience & Rising Star by FinancesOnline
We at NAKIVO are proud to share some wonderful news with you! Recently, our product NAKIVO Backup & Replication for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS earned recognition from FinancesOnline and was honored with two prestigious awards: Rising Star 2017 and Great User Experience 2017. FinancesOnline is an independent review platform for B2B, SaaS, and financial solutions. […]
“Shockwave Flash has crashed” workaround for vSphere Web (Flash) Client
One of our favorite blog authors William Lam has posted some interesting news regarding vShere Web Client. He did some experience regarding Google Crome. Here is his article, or simply scroll down for his latest blog. On Saturday, I started to notice that logins to the vSphere Web (Flex) Client stopped working with Google Chrome. Upon a successful […]
Detect and avoid VDI performance problems
Building an integrated testing scenario to detect and avoid VDI performance problems The company Login VSI sells a complete software solution to help digital workspace managers to optimize and safeguard the performance and availability of their virtual desktop production environments. Performance and availability are key dimensions of a good end-user experience and therefore very important […]