Goldman Sachs have just updated their report on IT Spending in 2010 and 2011. Key findings of this report are: IT spending is expected to be up 7% in 2010, but it will only be up 4% in 2011. There was significant pent-up demand in the first half of...
We will be announcing the release of eG Enterprise version 5 at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco in two weeks time. This will be a pretty significant release – over one hundred enhancements in all. Some key statistics for this release include:...
Several years ago when we started to use Java technology in our products, this technology was in its infancy. We had a lot of teething problems, but multi-platform support was important to us and we continued to pull along with Java...
I came across this interesting article – ‘Year of the Virtual Desktop’ a Flop So Far. True – VDI deployments are not happening as fast as everyone had hope for earlier in the year. At the same time, it is not the end of road...
A year ago, we had published a whitepaper on how server virtualization was going to move to the next phase of evolution – Virtualization 2.0 – and how manageability was going to be key to the success of these next-gen virtualization...
Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments are starting to emerge. At eG Innovations, we have been involved in some of the largest VDI deployments in the world over the last year. VDI plays to our strengths. For...
The importance of having your IT operations teams focused on the IT services and ultimately the demands of the business is highlighted by Gartner’s IT Operations Maturity Model below. A recent self-assessment by around 200 enterprises...
There has been a lot of debate on how cloud computing is going to evolve. This year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Management Summit 2010 a couple of weeks ago was all about cloud computing. Clearly, the public cloud is here...
I attended many sessions at the Gartner IT Operations and Management Summit, 2010 last week. One of these sessions by David Williams, a Gartner analyst, was thoroughly enlightening and enjoyable. Several interesting points to consider for folks in...
Gartner just released a MarketScope for emerging hosted virtual desktop services, comparing 10 vendors. Evaluation criteria included market understanding, vertical/industry strategy, current service capabilities, feature sets and skills, overall...