Organizations worldwide are using a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to deliver desktops as a managed service to end-users with VMware® Horizon View™. The result is reduced operational costs, enhanced security, and the ability to support a mobile workforce. As you begin to design your Horizon View VDI deployment, follow these tech tips from our VMware […]
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Riverbed SteelFusion, as the first converged infrastructure solution purpose-built for the branch, promises to transform branch IT through the stateless “projection” of data, applications, and VMs actually stored in the datacenter. In this Taneja Group Technology Validation we put SteelFusion through our hands-on lab to to test if it really delivers on its broad claims. […]
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In this Taneja Group Product Profile we review Riverbed’s SteelFusion (formerly known as Granite), and examine how it marries together multiple technical advances including stateless compute, “projected” datacenter storage and WAN optimization to deliver an innovative branch converged infrastructure. SteelFusion supports distributed IT by addressing traditional branch IT challenges – providing simplified deployment, resiliency in […]
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Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware Horizon Mirage™. From sizing your servers to allocating storage, reference these tips as you move to a centralized virtual desktop environment.
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Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Even with all the equipment in place, supporting the branch is a whole different challenge. However, a new branch converged infrastructure approach allows IT to provide local access and performance, store data securely in the datacenter, and instantly recover branch […]
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Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware Horizon View™. From application requirements to end user expectations, reference these tips as you move to a virtual desktop infrastructure.
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From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today’s data centers. And along the way, they’re also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. A wide range of observers agree that data centers are now entering an era of “hyperconvergence” that will raise network […]
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The reality today is that organizations have to transition their data center environments in order to remain competitive in a highly dynamic global market. It will be important to understand that the network will play a critical role in determining the success or failure of this process. The bulk of the emerging trends outlined in […]
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Microsoft SharePoint is proliferating throughout enterprises in various deployment models (e.g., SaaS) for consistent data delivery and universal access. But distributed SharePoint implementations and distributed end-users could adversely affect the performance of accessing SharePoint over large corporate networks. This white paper analyzes the challenges of optimizing a web-based SharePoint environment and discusses how Riverbed IT […]
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WAN optimization technology has been an important part of networking for more than ten years, enabling productivity gains and cost savings of magnitudes sufficient to drive it to mainstream status for distributed, network-enabled organizations of all sizes. One important manifestation of this technology is mobile client software that can be installed on individual users’ workstations, […]
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