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>>

It’s finally arrived. We are proud to announce that we have officially shipped RES Virtual Desktop Extender (VDX) as a standalone product. Our reverse seamless VDX technology has already helped hundreds of organizations overcome key challenges when it comes to desktop virtualization. Challenges including ….

• Some applications can’t be virtualized well or at all
• Some users want special access to feeds, apps, and services, and you want to run those (and just those) locally in one session
• You want to give users the flexibility to use their own PCs (BYOPC) without adding risk to your environment
• The heavy applications that you need to keep your business running make it impossible to implement widespread desktop virtualization

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In our second IT Insight of the year, we focus on how to introduce context-aware computing into your IT environment. Today, it’s fairly common for people to work from different locations, as well as multiple platforms, all in the same work day. This is why context-aware computing is increasingly important. Wherever they are, users need access to their settings, applications and data, but IT still needs to control how and in what situations they should be able to access it. Creating a context-aware environment allows IT to control what content their users have access to, and when and where they have access to it. Essentially, it allows IT to set the parameters that dynamically create a workspace that is unique ... READ MORE>>

Ole-Kristian Sivertsen, Regional Director, Nordics

The constant struggle between IT departments and users is reaching new heights. Well-managed desktops through lock-down and standardization are mantras for most IT administrators. On the opposite side of the scale is the personalized desktop, where users have the freedom to adapt their workspace according to personal needs and preferences. With the never-ending wave of change, new client devices are turning up faster and faster. Users are at the same time getting more and more demanding. As a result, the cost effective, secure and standardized desktop is under tremendous pressure. The question today is how to achieve both standardization and personalization. So, what exactly ... READ MORE>>

   Bill Corrigan was recently named Chief Marketing Officer of RES Software.

I am very happy to have joined a great team at RES Software led by visionary CTO and Founder, Bob Janssen. Bob is the “godfather” of user state virtualization and has been perfecting the technology for nearly 12 years. Throughout the industry, he is widely recognized as one of the top 2-3 Windows kernel and desktop virtualization architects/gurus. On top of that, our CEO, Klaus Besier, has a proven track record of leading successful companies, including SAP, Firepond and Neoware. The era of the hybrid ... READ MORE>>