Insights from How to be a “Bring Your Own Device” Hero By David Messina, VP, Marketing and Product Management, Xangati Today I’m going to share my third and final blog summarizing Xangati’s recent webinar How to be a “Bring Your Own Device Hero.” Along with our co-host Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research, we delved into some of the most important issues surrounding this hot topic and what you need to know to be a BYOD hero in your organization. Key among those issues – as explained in my initial blog – is acceptance. BYOD is happening whether you want it
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Insights from How to be a “Bring Your Own Device” Hero By David Messina, VP, Marketing and Product Management, Xangati If you’re reading this, you’ve probably read the first of my blog series on the ABC’s of BYOD, summarizing our recent webinar How to be a “Bring Your Own Device Hero.” You’ve recognized and accepted the fact that BYOD is coming and – as my webinar co-host Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research pointed out, resistance is futile. As Zeus stated in a recent post, BYOD is now being pushed at the executive level. Management is saying ‘make it work’ regardless
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Insights from the How to be a “Bring Your Own Device” Hero webinar By David Messina, VP, Marketing and Product Management, Xangati Can you imagine your HR department leading the charge for a new IT technology? With BYOD, it’s happening. According to respected market analyst Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research, co-host of our recent webinar How to be a “Bring Your Own Device” Hero, the tipping point for BYOD has occurred and, yes, even HR is pushing for it. Device evolution has flown through the roof. Users’ toolkits have been transformed and now include devices such as the smartphone and
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Final Insights from “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back” – Part 3 By Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati If I had to pick one quote to summarize our “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back” webinar – and the state of virtualization performance management today – this just might be it. You’ve migrated to virtualization and understand and are experiencing its value to some degree. But, while you’re on the right track, if you don’t keep moving forward, you won’t get your mission-critical apps on board and you will likely take the blame for numerous mishaps occurring in
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Insights from “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back” – Part 2 By Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati So your legacy tools aren’t cutting it. Now what? How do you navigate the road ahead and successfully get your mission critical apps up and running with the performance demanded by both your users and management? With noted analyst Bernd Harzog on board with us, we covered a lot of ground in our recent webinar “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back.” So much so that I wanted to review some of what was discussed here with you. In the first
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By Steve Rodgers A recent Network World blog post by Zeus Kerravala mentions the popular 80s song “I Need a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler. The song talks about needing a hero, a Hercules, a knight which is how Zeus perceived himself back in his IT days when his department controlled all of the devices, applications and end-to-end user experience. Today, with consumerization, the wheels of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) have already been set in motion within your company and a new hero is needed—a BYOD hero. Join Zeus Kerravala and Xangati for the upcoming webinar: How to Be a
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Insights from “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back” – Part 1 By Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati Calling something ‘worse than useless’ gets your attention. And when it’s being said by noted analyst Bernd Harzog of The Virtualization Practice, it gets it doubly so. In our recent webinar, “Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back,” Xangati was lucky to have Bernd’s participation. With a huge amount of valuable info shared in the webinar, I want to repeat some of the discussion here in case you missed it. At this point, you’ve already enjoyed the initial benefits of virtualization
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By David Messina, VP Marketing and Product Management, Xangati Congratulations to Gestalt IT for another job well done! Last week’s Virtualization Field Day #2 (VFD2) ran smoothly from start to finish. While we certainly missed Stephen’s presence, Matt Simmons did a fantastic job hosting. But, while the execution of this event remains flawless, the concept is what really sets Tech Field Day apart from other events and delivers its special magic. The Tech Field Day concept allows an interactive exchange of multiple viewpoints, as well as an in-depth discussion about emerging trends and product technology. When you gather an international
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Steve Rodgers, Marketing Communications Manager, Xangati Join analyst Bernd Harzog from APM Experts and Xangati as they explore the unique challenges of the virtualization management galaxy where legacy tools represent the “dark side of the force.” VI admins are under siege and spend too much of their workday swatting away lightsabers headed in their direction. Webinar: Blame Wars – the VI Admin Strikes Back February 16, 2011 10:00AM PT / 12:00PM CT / 1:00PM ET Attend this webinar to acquire the actionable insights to end the blame wars and strike back Documented constraints of legacy tools\frameworks and why they can’t
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Nathanael Iversen, Director of Technical Marketing, Xangati Be especially careful about anti-virus as you go through your deployments. The thing that happens is when you take a user’s disk and remove it from the machine and put their storage on a SAN, most traditional anti-virus products are not aware of that transition. And, many of them are used to making near constant access to the disk. And when that happens on a shared SAN environment with hundreds of desktops sitting on that SAN, performance bottlenecks spring up all over the place. Happily, most of the anti-virus products on the market
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