Top 10 Reasons to Implement Desktop Virtualization Now

IT professionals have been hearing about the potential benefits of desktop virtualization for a number of years. Despite a large number of successful deployments, there have also been projects that never left the pilot stage. The momentum is starting to shift, however, and the groundswell of demand for desktop virtualization is becoming more and more apparent.

Two factors have come together to cause this shift: (1) less-expensive and simpler-to-deploy desktop virtualization solutions, and (2) the demand on IT to manage the proliferation of new devices as part of BYOD initiatives. There are now more reasons than ever to try desktop virtualization. Read on to see the full list of 10 reasons.

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Dell DVS Enterprise Builds on Strong Momentum with Solutions for 3-D Graphics, Unified Communications and More

Desktop virtualization is now part of a converged infrastructure. It supports high-end 3-D graphics and enables simplified unified communications, which represent a series of important breakthroughs that have the potential to not only accelerate desktop virtualization adoption, but also significantly expand the use cases and user groups that can leverage its benefits. If you've been considering adopting desktop virtualization, or if you have a single pilot project and are considering expansion, now is the time to take a closer look at the offerings available from Dell and Citrix.
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Build a Business Case

When you think about many of the key challenges facing IT departments these days, you can see why there is continued excitement and pent-up demand for the benefits promised by desktop virtualization. Trends such as BYOD, the consumerization of IT, the rise of social media and increased mobility are making it more incumbent upon the IT department to exert control over what devices are attached to the corporate network and what applications users are deploying. Now, with state-of-the-art appliances such as the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance, IT professionals have a new opportunity to cost-efficiently and simply deploy desktop virtualization solutions. See how the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance can help you bring desktop virtualization into your organization.
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The Promises and Pitfalls of BYOD

Tech-savvy companies know that allowing employees to use personal devices improves productivity and job satisfaction. In addition, enterprises can significantly reduce costs as well as benefit from geographically dispersed talent, allowing for flexible work hours by letting workers use their device of choice - be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop - anytime, anywhere. However, BYOD presents major security and compliance challenges to IT departments. Protecting your network from unauthorized access, malware and data theft becomes much more complex when personal devices are allowed onto the network. Is there a solution for balancing BYOD and security?
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Why Protection and Performance Matter

Protection and performance should not be mutually exclusive. Learn why they go hand in hand in this white paper, "Why Protection and Performance Matter." Outdated firewalls pose a serious security risk to your organization. Learn how Dell™ SonicWALL™ next-generation firewalls can provide both extremely high levels of protection and the performance your organization requires. By combining high-performance multi-core architecture and reassembly-free DPI technology, Dell SonicWALL next-generation firewalls overcome the limitations of traditional firewalls and enable enterprise businesses to scale their network security to meet the demands of emerging threats, while ensuring the network performance to meet key business objectives.
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Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack

Do you know how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network? Cyber-criminals employ complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. They will do anything to find and exploit your weaknesses. Don't give the bad guys the keys to your network. Learn how to protect your organization from emerging threats in our e-book, "Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack." It provides insights into the tools and strategies used by cyber-criminals and how to stop them. It also describes different types of malware, including viruses and worms that can devastate your network - and your business.
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Why Rational Development Solutions for Power?

Read about the real life experiences of two customers who used Rational Development Solutions for Power to save money and create workload optimized developers who were much more productive in meeting innovative business challenges than ever before.
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Why Device Fingerprinting Provides Better Network Security than IP Blocking

Unfortunately, most network security products rely on the equivalent of drivers' licenses: IP addresses associated with known attacks and spam. But there is a better way. In this short paper we will examine:
- Why IP reputation-based blocking doesn't catch smart cyber-criminals
- How device fingerprinting changes the economics of hacking
- How device fingerprinting works
- How global intelligence service based upon device fingerprinting can enhance your
network security infrastructure.
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Webinar-BIRT Makes the Impossible Possible

Every day developers are tasked with creating impossible applications with complicated requirements and expected to deliver results in a short amount of time.

Join us to understand why BIRT should be an integral part of your data visualization development environment. We will show you how to build "cool" content quickly so you can free up cycles to meet all of your application's requirements for presenting structured and unstructured data over the web and delivering scalable rich data visualizations.

View this web seminar to learn how to:
-Easily incorporate world-class web-centric analytic content into applications without the need for time-consuming custom code
-Use a drag-and-drop visual design environment to create information-driven content based on a wide variety of sources, including your application, live feeds and legacy data
-Collaborate with the BIRT community's 2.5 million developers

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Analyst Paper-Howard Dresner’s 4th annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study

Take a look at Howard Dresner's 4th annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence market study with in-depth market analysis, 80 charts and tables and 23 vendor rankings. Howard Dresner spent 13 years at Gartner Research, where he was responsible for the BI Magic Quadrants and conferences.

The Wisdom of the Crowds study is unique in that the findings are completely crowd-sourced from actual BI users, implementers and purchasers. This year's study shows that SaaS/Cloud, Dashboards, and Mobile Device Support have increased significantly in terms of importance. Read on to find out where BI is headed!

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The Beginner’s Guide to In-Memory Technology

According to Gartner Research, one of the biggest issues with Business Intelligence (BI) adoption is poor query performance. Business users want immediate results using fast and responsive applications, and anything longer than a typical Google search is simply too long to wait. This paper will explain why In-Memory Technology is Important for Business Analytics.
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Guidelines for Choosing a Business Intelligence Vendor

Implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution leads to dramatic operational improvements and benefits that far outweigh the investments in time, money, and personnel necessary to select, deploy, and maintain such an application. Unfortunately, far too many BI deployments fail to reach their anticipated potential, and prove to be a disappointment to both management and users. In this paper, we depict a series of the most common BI obstacles, and illustrate how to avoid many of these pitfalls.
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Beat the 3 “Vs” with Real-Time, In-Memory Technology

Companies today are struggling with how to deal the 3 "Vs" of their data. They must manage and use vastly larger volumes of data. They must incorporate a greater variety of data types such as that produced by social media and smart devices. And they must handle the velocity of today's data gathering, processing and analyzing fast-changing data in real time. In-memory technology has increasingly become the way to address the challenges of data's 3Vs and achieve business success.

A recent survey by Slashdot Media asked more than 500 IT and business managers four key questions concerning real-time, in-memory technology to support business analytics/intelligence objectives.

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