Overcoming the Real Challenges with VDI

VDI is network-usage heavy, requiring certain architectural elements, and suffering from performance and security issues. This paper examines the shortcomings of VDI and offers insight into solutions that enable you to unburden your IT infrastructure and gain the full value from your VDI implementation.
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Implementing Adaptable Resilient VDI Deployments

VDI deployment is a worthy undertaking for reducing the desktop footprint, centralizing application administration, and covering licensing concerns. But it is a complex system that increases the network burden, and can require configuration efforts beyond normal workloads. Read this paper for important factors you should consider when planning to implement or improve upon a virtual desktop infrastructuere. Also learn about tools that can help to make deployment and network maintenance easier.
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5 Ways F5 Improves Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Implementations

Citrix brings a long and successful history of market-leading application access solutions from MetaFrame and Presentation Server to today's XenApp and XenDesktop for VDI. For as long as Citrix has been delivering application access, F5 has been delivering market-leading application delivery solutions. With demand for VDI solutions growing, performance, security, and reliability are paramount to successfully delivering VDI and applications over a variety of networks to myriad device types. This paper examines how F5's market-leading ADC technology and solutions improve the reliability, performance, and security of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop and reduces the complexity and deployment cycle time, improves the scalability of VDI-related services, and enhances the mobility of users and operations alike.
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DevOps: Why IT Operations Managers Should Care About the Cloud

The cloud holds the power to transform and redefine development and operations—a process that is becoming known as DevOps. This IBM-sponsored, Frost & Sullivan IBM executive brief defines DevOps and examines how the new process can benefit IT operations by streamlining the end-to-end process and ongoing management of applications.
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MFT Center of Excellence

This paper provides a strategic, customer-centric approach to managing your organization’s file transfer infrastructure via the realignment of file transfer technology and support organizations into an MFT COE.
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Top 10 ITIL Best Practices for Your Service Desk

ITIL is a method for organizing and delivering your IT services using best practices to help you give your team the utmost in efficiency, quality and collaboration. ITIL standardizes and formalizes the way service desk functions are delivered, among other IT elements. Through the shared knowledge of businesses, IT minds, and IT experts across several industries, ITIL continues to be a valuable resource to your organization.
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Armed and Extremely Dangerous: The Service Catalogue is More Than Just a Tool

Despite the well-used phrase "a fool with a tool is still a fool" there are still many service catalogue initiatives that start and end with the selection of technology. These initiatives are doomed for failure. Armed with technology alone will be extremely dangerous to the success of your service catalogue. This paper discusses how to implement a successful service catalogue with technology selection a crucial component but one of many critical success factors.
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Shine a Light Inside the Black Box

As anyone with experience in outsourcing will tell you, no offshore software development program with multiple concurrent projects and over 150 developers in several countries can possibly realize projected cost savings and stay on schedule. That is, unless it is running Scrum. Discover how Agile practices of Scrum, coupled with smart metrics and common sense, force unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency on outsourced projects, giving buyers a powerful toolkit for managing suppliers and dramatically improving ROI from offshoring.
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F5 Security Forum 2012

F5 is coming to your area to talk about what our customers are doing around security. Attend the F5 Security Forum 2012 for an in-depth discussion on how adaptive security services can protect your enterprise. Join us to learn how you can bring together network, application, data, and user-access under a single security strategy that moves IT forward. Register today!
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Advanced Persistent Threat: Is Your Organization Protected?

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are among the most hotly debated topics in IT security. Are APTs a legitimate threat? How are IT managers and executives preparing for the risk of APTs? Or are they ignoring them? Learn what your IT professional peers think about APTs and how they are working to reduce the risks these new kinds of attacks pose.
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Gartner: The Electronic Signature Market Is Poised to Take Off

Growth in the e-signature market is becoming viral, and there are significant benefits to adoption for organizations that plan ahead. Gartner analyst, Gregg Kreizman writes about how the electronic signature market is growing and how your organization can prepare for the take off. In this whitepaper, learn about: 1. E-signature benefits and impacts to your organization 2. Recommendations and strategic plan assumptions with e-signatures 3. Why Gartner inquiries on the topic of electronic signatures has doubled in the last two years Learn why “enterprises' and consumers' recognition of the benefits gained from adopting e-signature software and services has led to 48% growth in this market in 2011.”
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Four Steps to High Performance WAN and Internet

Problems with application and network performance on the WAN and Internet links are caused by many and varied issues – congestion, latency, protocol design, sudden bursts of disruptive traffic – all contribute. New factors make the calculus even more complicated: social networking, BYOD, cloud applications, growing video content, even IPv6 traffic growing in the shadows. It’s tempting to respond to these problems by jumping to a single set of technologies that fix certain aspects of performance. We recommend, instead, that you take advantage of Blue Coat expertise and technology to take the four simple steps described in this paper.
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