Home away from home. I think it a rare occurrence when someone could have had multiple careers like I have, yet one thing remains the same; my frequent trips to the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington. I would say that I started coming here with a steady frequency back in 2004 when I spent a week at SEATAC airport working for Softricity. Back in those days I was a Hilton points guy.

Then I went to Marriott attaining Gold status, which is nothing when compared to my friend Steve Campbell who is lifetime platinum status. The past several years, I have been a frequenter of the ... READ MORE>>

By Sean Donahue, Senior Director Global Alliance Marketing

Leaving Las Vegas… again. It’s Thursday night / Friday morning and my new teammates here at RES have just dispersed from the Parasail bar at the Wynn where we all enjoyed a team building end of show cocktail. VMworld 2011 has just ended and we are “knackered” as our man Grant from the UK would say. What a show! Over 20,000 VMware professionals descended on the Venetian and Sands Conference center for the largest tech conference I have ever attended. Not to mention the fact that this was the first show in which I ever had ... READ MORE>>

By Jeff Fisher, VP, Business Development

The one-size-does-not-fit-all-story for VDI and the cloud seems to be echoing across the industry. Desktop administrators are the first to tell you that in most cases, a wholesale move to these technologies will leave many of their users without the kind of desktop experience needed to successfully perform their jobs. Sure, VDI and cloud-hosted desktops can give users access to basic applications and data … but increasingly that’s not enough. A rich user experience is more important than ever, and users expect to access their IT services through multiple devices from multiple locations without compromising that experience. Part of ... READ MORE>>

By Bob Janssen, CTO

Major desktop transformation projects are inevitable for most organizations. Windows 7 deployments, application or desktop virtualization rollouts and introducing VDI are all common initiatives for many organizations. But how can desktop administrators make critical decisions about changes to their infrastructure without fully understanding their environment, especially from the user perspective? Enter RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer.   Baseline Desktop Analyzer is a free, online, Microsoft Windows Azure-based service that enables IT to quickly gain visibility of their desktop infrastructure from the user point of view. Assessing real-life user data is nothing new to RES. Workspace Manager already includes Desktop ... READ MORE>>

By Bill Corrigan, CMO

At RES, we’re just getting settled back in from a great week at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco. The excitement on the Synergy expo floor and the RES booth was palpable. So many attendees were streaming through the expo looking for the best solutions to enhance their existing Citrix deployments or to jumpstart their latest Citrix projects. Of course, there was tons of buzz following some awesome keynotes from Mark Templeton and other Citrix executives. Not surprisingly, top of mind for a lot of people this year was the transformation from the traditional physical desktop to the user-centric “hybrid desktop.” More ... READ MORE>>