Our Blog: Archived by Virtualization

Catch up to your employee’s demands: Go Beyond the Desktop!

October 4th, 2011

By Scott Perry, Solutions Architect, Collaboration Take note, workforce. We have entered a new era: The “Post-PC Era”. No longer does the PC tie employees down with its chains. Studies … [ Read more… ]

Repurposing Desktops as PCoIP Zero Clients

August 16th, 2011

  By Chris Kostolini, Data Center Engineer With VDI gaining a lot of popularity, a lot of companies may want to “test” this solution before investing their time and money … [ Read more… ]

Force 3 Joins VMware Ready Program

June 22nd, 2011

Recently VMware announced the expansion of their VMware Ready™ Program that will provide customers validated desktop virtualization solution architectures that meet VMware’s functional and scalability requirements and are delivered by … [ Read more… ]

Rethinking Access for the Remote Worker: Five Tips for Keeping the Government Teleworker Secure

April 19th, 2011

   By Rob Chee, Security Team Lead, CCIE (R&S), CISSP With teleworking becoming more and more common, I’m often asked by customers what the main security concerns are that surround … [ Read more… ]

Provision 1200 virtual machines in 98 minutes? No problem…

December 13th, 2010

By Mosa Emamjomeh, Data Center Solutions Architect Learn how to provision 1200 Federal Standard Desktop Core based View linked clone VMs on Cisco UCS, Falconstor NSS, Violin Flash Array in … [ Read more… ]

Avoiding the Barriers to Virtualization Benefits

December 7th, 2010

A study released by CDW shares the benefits of virtual platforms within federal, state and government agencies. The study also shares the pitfalls and barriers to taking full advantage of … [ Read more… ]

The Case for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

December 2nd, 2010

By Lee Collison, Solutions Architect I am on my way back from a recent trip to Miami to watch the Dolphins play (been wanting this trip for over twenty years), … [ Read more… ]

Federal Government Expected to See Big Boosts through Virtualization

November 11th, 2010

The federal government has much to gain by implementing virtualization solutions, according to a recent report in Federal Computing Week. Virtualization, it contends, can consolidate IT resources, cut space and … [ Read more… ]

8 Tips for Data Center Virtualization

July 22nd, 2010

Data Center Consolidation and Virtualization are the buzzwords de jour in government IT today.  The opportunity to virtualize large data centers within—and across—agencies offers a significant opportunity for cost reduction … [ Read more… ]

Will the Cloud Drive Out Government Waste? Or Compound It?

July 15th, 2010

Vivek Kundra, the federal government’s CIO, believes huge government savings can be realized by moving IT infrastructure into the cloud of hosted computing. But not everyone agrees. Some analysts think … [ Read more… ]